Fring is  a peer-to-peer Mobile VoIP based internet telephony network, which allows users to call their social network contacts for free using their handset’s internet connection.

Fring has opened its service to phones running  Java ME software and Linux handsets, allowing Nokia and Sony Ericsson phone owners to become part of fring network.

Fring has created a ‘minifring’ version for phones that don’t yet support voice over IP calling. With minifring, you can now use some of the most popular bits of fring to keep in touch with fringsters, Skype, GoogleTalk, MSN, AIM, Yahoo, ICQ, and Twitter buddies  for free anywhere you go.

Previously fring runs on Symbian 60 devices like Sony Ericsson UIQ Smartphones, Windows Mobile and iPhone handsets, butit is now supporting more than 1000 different handsets.

Rack-Soft today, announced the release of 4PSA VoipNow Hosted for to SMBs and small ISPs. The service was created to allow its customers to take advantage of VoIP services and benefits, like integration with business software applications, lower costs, and increased mobility without the need of having special VoIP equipment or VoIP management software to sustain the application.

4PSA VoipNow uses SaaS (Software as a Service) distribution model to provide its clients with the application and the infrastructure required to run it. This service is provisioned after order approval and the customer has to pay only the monthly fee. The client/user can manage administrative tasks like selecting the preferred SIP provider, telephone extensions, call management, Call Center administration, conferences or voice mail through the web interface provided by  4PSA VoipNow Professional.

Tandberg, a manufacturer of video encoders, multiplexers and videoconferencing systems, located in Oslo, Norway and New York City, USA has introduced a new video VoIP phone for mass enterprise deployment. The new video VoIP phone is called Tandberg E20, it combines CD quality audio with DVD quality video to deliver the desktop video phone for businesses at an affordable price. It has a 5-megapixel high resolution camera positioned at eye-level which provides a head-on image that eliminates the “nose view” and it has a 10.6 inch LCD widescreen.

The E20 features a 20 kHz speaker phone and 10 kHz handset aside from call transfer, message waiting and call forwarding features. It also has features like intuitive directories and menus, and quick keys for access to advanced IP phone and video services. The E20 has the ability to receive multimedia presentations.

Equipped with standards-compliant video and audio, the E20 interoperates with all other standards-compliant major office communication devices from phones to video conferencing and telepresence systems. Calls from the E20 are secured with Advanced Encryption Standard (AES).

The E20 will ship in the first quarter of 2009.

conaito has launched VoIP SIP SDK 3.0, a powerful and highly versatile VoIP SDK to accelerate development of SIP applications and websites. conaito VoIP SIP SDK is based on IETF standards (SIP, RTP/RTCP, STUN, TURN, ICE, etc.), making it compatible with SER, Sip EXpress, OpenSER, Asterisk, and other popular SIP-based solutions.

New features of the conaito VoIP SIP client - version 3.0 include:

• ICE Support
• TURN Server support (exp.)
• VAD (Voice Activity Detection)
• IPv6 support (exp.)
• Keep-Alive messages PLUS Interval setting
• Encrypted SIP Settings (protect your SIP account settings in websites)
• In-band/out-band DTMF
• Play DTMF tones (local maschine)
• Playing Ringtones (local maschine)
• Call Transfer (PLUS Transfer with Replaces)
• Conversation/Conference recording to MP3 file
• Modify outgoing SIP messages
• Sound device detection
• Enable/Disable sounds devices
• Set Online Status (RFC 4880)
• SIP Traces for RX and TX
• Set Media Quality - the lower value is the lower quality is reached (but better performance)
• Set RTP packet droping (0% - 100%) - Rx and Tx
• New ready-up “how-to-start” - Samples
• Complete new re-written samples with source code

Fixes:

• fixed: STUN support
• fixed: Oubound Proxy support
• fixed: TCP transport issue
• fixed: some reported bugs

VoIP SIP SDK 3.0 is now available for download.

EvaPhone.com is a free voip calling service where you can make totally-free international calls to over 40 countries. EvaPhone.com is very easy to use, registration is not required and there are no VOIP softphones to download to make free calls. Just go to EvaPhone.com, select the country, type the number and make free calls. However, EvaPhone.com offers these free calls in lieu of advertisements. Each time you make a call, EvaPhone.com plays about 10-15 secs ad before your call begins. The duration of calls are of course limited and number of calls are limited on a per IP-address system.

If you want to make free calls to United states or free calls to UK, EvaPhone.com is one of the good options to use.

Unfortunately, there are no free calls to the Philippines.

Sipera Systems, Inc., a Texas based company specializing in pure security for VoIP, mobile and multimedia communications has announced that resellers, distributors, independent software vendors and other technology partners can now can apply their security applications to new and existing VoIP and UC deployments through the Sipera Partner Network.

Partners will be given access to Sipera’s VIPER Lab and IPCS solutions, which offer a wide range of security functionalities including threat protection, policy enforcement, access control and privacy in a single device. Current Sipera distribution partners include Westcon, while Belltech, INSI, Paranet, Shared Technologies and Vigilar are reseller partners.

Sipera Systems enables enterprises and service providers to protect, control and enable real-time unified communications. Sipera’s VoIP security solutions are developed from extensive research on VoIP vulnerabilities and security threats. Sipera’s real-time UC security solutions interoperate with systems developed by major VoIP infrastructure vendors, including Avaya Inc., Cisco Systems Inc. and Nortel Networks.