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. [...]

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.

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.

 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 [...]

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.

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.

By Sharla Sikes
T-Mobile, best known for its wireless service and Catherine Zeta-Jones as spokesperson, recently announced the nationwide availability of its $10 per month @Home service.
The @Home offer invites wireless customers to cancel their land line phone service and opt for T-Mobile’s wireless router. The installation carries a one-time $50 fee.

By Sharla Sikes
Avaya, Cisco and Nortel are expected to release patches for newly found security issues in their VoIP systems.
The vulnerabilities, found by VoIPshield Laboratories, could allow attacks in remote code execution, unauthorized access, denial of service and information harvesting if targeted by online criminals.

By Sharla Sikes
Mobile VoIP is the talk of the town, and has been since VoIP became widely accepted. With new applications available for the market-dominating iPhone, it’s getting closer and closer all the time. More and more VoIP providers are jumping on the bandwagon to provide low-cost calling using cellular headsets. MediaRing Limited, a VoIP [...]

By Sharla Sikes
Skype announced the release of the beta version of its new look June 18. The new face of Skype includes PC-to-PC audio, video and instant messaging for a true unified communications platform.