Well, we’ve been busy over here at FreedomVOICE. This week we launched a new blog, which we hope will give customers a better connection with the business. We are putting the final touches on a new website for our FreedomVOICE Virtual Office product, and we’re in the final stages of completing two programs for our agents – both of which will give them better means to market our products.

While all this is going on, the VoIP industry is continuing to make strides forward, especially in the form of hosted VoIP technology. The technology is being further refined every day, and this is really getting people excited. …click here to read more

Businesses are ready. They want VoIP. They see the cost savings and exciting features. They understand the technology lets them “Go Green” and encourages telecommuting. But in order to get the most out of the technology, they need information. They need to be able to access resources that let them pick the correct VoIP solution and tools for their business. That’s where the FreedomIQ Review comes in – and About VoIP of course.

The first FreedomIQ Review by FreedomVOICE focuses on the Cisco WIP310 Wireless-G IP Phone. As a dynamic and powerful device, the introduction of the Cisco WIP310 marks a new level of maturity in wireless VoIP.  The WIP310 works within 300 feet of an Internet connection, provides impressive browsing capabilities, and allows for 3 hours talk time and 40 hours standby between charging. …click here to read more

Many SMBs have accepted IP communication as a method for placing internal and external calls. They are now taking a closer look at SIP Trunking, the technology that numerous enterprises have already enthusiastically embraced. Migrating to a new technology involves risk and some SMBs are hesitant to take the step. Knowing where to begin is a challenge.

There are five assessment criteria for SMBs to consider when investigating the migration from TDM to VoIP to SIP Trunking. VARs need to familiarize themselves with the assessment areas and prepare appropriate responses. Properly responding to the assessment criteria will ameliorate the risks in favor of the benefits and potential. …click here to read more

VoSKY is a service for VoIP phones which sells gateways to aid companies with traditional phones to use Skype as a business solution phone service. These unique gateways plug into traditional phones that usually connect to a public network. The gateways then act as a regular network through providing dial tones and responding to key pressing but are actually making a connection to the internet and passing phone calls via Skype to save on local and long distance calling. …click here to read more

By Sharla Sikes

Entrust your communications to someone offsite eliminates the need for expensive solutions to combat disaster situations. Hosted VoIP solutions can provide an added dimension of flexibility in times of disaster. It’s scalable; resilient; and can handle a “wide range of applications.”

Cypress Communications has aimed its new product at the hosted VoIP solutions market. The complete end-to-end hosted VoIP and unified communications solution, called C4 IP, earns its name from its design to “help organizations connect, communicate, collaborate and continue even during a disaster or catastrophe.” …click here to read more

By Sharla Sikes

The Federal Communications Commission will recommend sanctions against Comcast, a cable services provider, for blocking file-sharing traffic, according to the Associated Press.

FCC chairman Kevin Martin will circulate the order to other commissioners today, according to the AP. The commissioners will vote on the sanction at an open meeting Aug. 1. …click here to read more

By Sharla Sikes

Citrix Online will release new versions of GoToMeeting and GoToWebinar software that now incorporate VoIP capability.

Both software suites feature support for Mac and telephone audio, and one-click web conferencing, designed for small and medium businesses. …click here to read more

 By Sharla Sikes

VoIP-PAL.com, a telecommunications products, announced the termination of an agreement between it and Big Apple Consulting USA.

“We have had many inquiries asking us if we have an investor relations firm working with us,” said Richard Kipping, chief executive officer of VoIP-PAL.com. “So to clarify, we thought we should announce that VoIP-PAL.com, Inc. suspended its agreement with BigApple Consulting USA on October 17, 2007 for a three-month period pending clarification on certain matters relating to the agreement. After an internal review we decided to terminate the agreement.”

VoIP-PAL and WorldTel Xchange Inc. announced an alliance in April. The two companies will be jointly marketing an “exciting new product” through VoIP-PAL’s Niche Sales Channel, according to a news release.

Steve Lipman, pesident of WorldTel Xchange, Inc., said, “The combination of VoIP-PAL’s relationship with the Airline Points Program and WorldTel’s new ‘1ButtontoWiFi’ patented cellular/VoIP 1-touch technology will have a tremendous impact with consumers that have accumulated thousands of unused miles.”

The new product aims to capture the “untapped market of 3.2 billion cell phones worldwide,” and is purported to turn any cell phone, PDA or Smartphone—including the iPhone—into a WiFi phone.

VoIP-PAL.com offers local and long distance voice over IP phone services for both retail and business customers, as well as turnkey solutions through its Partners for the Loyalty Transactional platform, according to officials.

By Sharla Sikes

Monema Communications, a Spanish startup, hit the VoIP market with its new TamTam PBX. TamTam is a “very visual” PBX that’s fully managed online, according to Antonio Cerrolaza from Monema. …click here to read more

By Sharla Sikes

For the third consecutive year, VoIP Supply earned a place in the Fast Track 50, a list of the 50 fastest growing companies in Western New York. Buffalo’s Business First newspaper bestowed the honor based on VoIP Supply’s growth in two areas: Total sales and number of U.S. employees. …click here to read more