Yahoo! announced key findings from a new survey commissioned by the National American Testing Organization exploring the role Internet Search plays in the research process for consumers seeking VoIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol) calling solutions. The survey, conducted in August of 2005 using a nationally representative sample of US adults with high-speed connections at home, found Internet Search to be the most trusted, essential information resource for consumers researching VoIP calling services.

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VoIP business subscribers are highly satisfied with their VoIP services and would readily recommend it to business associates, as well as friends and family, reports In-Stat. While long distance cost savings continues to be the primary motivating factor in choosing VoIP, subscribers also find value in the technology’s features and functionality once they begin to experience the service.

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Sonus Networks announced that the amount of voice traffic being carried over Sonus’ industry-leading solutions exceeded 17 billion minutes per month at the end of 2005, a 70 percent increase compared to December 2004. Network operators around the world are supporting increasing amounts of customer traffic over Sonus IMS-based architectures to deliver innovative new applications and features to consumers, achieve superior operating efficiencies, and prepare their telecommunications networks for a seamless migration to full IMS-compliance.

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As VoIP is about to shed its early image and kick off a new phase in the market’s evolution, IDC forecasts the worldwide VoIP semiconductor market to grow over $2.4 billion in 2009, with a compound annual growth rate of 38.9% for 2004-2009. However, both opportunities and threats are emerging for current semiconductors selling into VoIP systems.

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Pac-West Telecomm entered into a strategic alliance with VeriSign to provide services that enable communications providers to offer converged IP, voice and data communications.

By bundling VeriSign signaling and database services with Pac-West’s network, the companies can offer the infrastructure elements needed to interconnect IP-based and traditional public switched telephone networks (PSTN).

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VoIP Ireland has swallowed US-based VoIP firm QC2, in a bid to attain the scale it needs to service the internet telephony requirements of corporate America.

Dublin-based VoIP Ireland specialises in adding VoIP gateways onto companies’ existing PBX systems, thereby cutting their phone bills without requiring a large initial capital investment.

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8×8, Inc. and CounterPath Solutions unveiled 8×8’s latest VoIP service, Packet8 Softalk, a co-branded, video-enabled SIP softphone for use with
the Packet8 residential, video and Virtual Office Internet phone services.

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IUSACom Networks announced it will deliver VoIP based telephone services to its subscribers and provide turnkey voice services to residential and enterprise customers in Latin America and the United States.

IUSACom Networks will use the Vistula V-Cube VoIP platform which will enable it to offer a range of telephony services from simple IP telephone calls right through to video conferencing. Vistula built V-Cube on Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), a signaling protocol for Internet conferencing, telephony, presence, events notification and instant messaging, so that customers are confident of its long-term flexibility and dependability.

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Eastman Kodak and Skype announced the availability of KODAK Photo Voice - that combines live voice and online photo sharing. The beta version of KODAK Photo Voice is the first Skype certified online photo sharing experience.

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NETGEAR and Skype are working on a family of innovative new products, including the world’s first Skype wireless mobile telephone and a router equipped to optimize Skype.

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