Now you can turn your iPhone into your own mobile office with RingCentral Mobile. Get it free from the iTunes App Store and access commonly used RingCentral features. Get RingCentral Mobile and use your iPhone to: • Make business calls with your RingCentral number as the caller ID • Get your business voicemails with visual voicemail • Receive and view internet faxes • Add, edit and dial personal or business contacts directly from the app RingCentral Mobile lets you manage your business calls easier than ever. Get RingCentral Mobile now. It requires iPhone 2.2 Software update. Special Sign Up Bonus: FREE rollover minutes. Order Today! Start using RingCentral Mobile on your iPhone and enjoy these benefits: Mobility. Take your RingCentral number wherever you go. Easy Access. Listen to voicemails and read faxes on your iPhone. Privacy. Keep your personal number [+]

Continuing its forward march into the business world, Skype today announced the beta version of Skype for SIP for business users. With 438,000 IP PBXes shipped worldwide in 2008, there's a big market for Skype to tap into if it can master the SMB and channels game. The Skype For SIP service allows SIP-based IP PBXes to route calls through Skype for lower cost landline and mobile rates around the world. It also enables inbound calls from Skype users directly into an IP PBX system. Additionally, users in more than 20 countries can purchase Skype-In numbers to enable inbound "virtual" local number calling through Skype. Applicants for the beta test need to be businesses, have an installed SIP-based IP PBX system and a level of technical expertise available to configure said IP PBX. The initial beta will be available for a [+]

On Thursday, the FreeSWITCH programming team announced the release of version 1.0.3. Most of the 127 items in the new version are "bug fixes, tweaks and improvements," but there are some new things in the latest version as well. New features include a module for real-time debiting of cash/credits while calls are in progress, a least-cost-routing module that can operate as a true dialplan or a dialplan application from a command line, and implementation of the Opal open phone abstraction library. The Opal module supports H.323 and IAX2. [+]

Digium has rolled out a seriously hot upgrade to Switchvox in Miami for ITEXPO. The new version includes integrated faxing, video calling support, and XMPP open source IM/chat/presence, along with a bunch of other goodies including introductory API support, IMAP integration for voicemail, a new Windows desktop client, IP phone autoconfig for snom and Polycom phones, and BRI support. "This release, is jam-packed with big things," said Digium's Tristan Degenhardt. "We can attribute to the fact we have more developers and we're working on the same stuff...fax is finally going in, finally, at long last. We have wonderful wonderful fax integration, video calling support with H.263 and H.263, and we also have chat built in. I would say those were the three things we were lacking, and now they are in." [+]

What happens when you voip is mobile or is not tied to one provider? It causes headaches for a number of reasons. In the United States it is 911, and the UK 999 service that presents more problems. In both areas many people discontinued their home phone service in favor of cell phones and voip. In our home town a lightning strike knocked out the cell phone tower, but many phones switched over to WiFi. (We are a free WiFi hotspot provider for our town.)

The United States continues to regulate services as if nothing has changed. Thinking like the old days when almost everyone had a home phone, recent regulatory changes now demand enhanced emergency services, or E911. It is a huge problem for mobile voip providers.

The global credit crunch is causing problems in the VoIP and Internet telephony community. It seems that funding, start-up money, and investors left some companies in a pinch. One such company is EQO. EQO was/is a VoIP/social networking play offering a free application that provides free IM, cheap calling and cheap texting to your mobile phone. The problem is EQO was like about a dozen other companies on the market with the same business plan triangle of free client/cheap calls/on mobile phones, including Jangl, Jajah and TalkPlus.

Also in this mix is Jaxtr. Some companies are dying a clow death, others are gone, and Jaxtr just released Jaxtr 2.0. See more about Jaxtr.

The secret to success is the marriage of cell phones, speed dial, and calls to anywhere in the world. With no high international [+]

O3b Networks Ltd. today announced it will begin deployment of a new global communications infrastructure to provide high-speed, low-cost Internet connectivity to emerging markets in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Middle East. Financial and operational support comes from Google Inc., Liberty Global, Inc. and HSBC Principal Investments.

The main idea is to increase bandwidth for providers such as telcos and Internet service providers.

One of our Windows Vista computers is a busy machine. We run the eBay tool bar, Ring Central call controller, magicJack, live help for our websites, and a few other programs that check things for us every 30 minutes. If you run magicJack and the RingCentral call controller at the same time you will have a conflict on SIP port 5060. You probably noticed that your RingCentral call controller icon is blinking. it is in logging mode. You probably also noticed that RingCentral works fine if you unplug your magicJack. The solution is very simple, and they will work fine together.

Open your RingCentral call controller. Click on the menu, then click on options. Open the “account information” menu by clicking on the “+” icon. Click on “connection”. Notice the SIP [+]

Nortel has bought Pingtel, a subsidiary of enterprise mobility firm Bluesocket. Nortel hopes the open source IP PBX software/appliance division will have better luck moving forward.

Financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed, but Nortel will acquire the key assets of Pingtel from Bluesocket, Pingtel’s existing OEM relationship with Nortel will be brought in house and Pingtel employees will be integrated into Nortel’s Billerica, Mass. facility. Pingtel and Nortel have been working together for a while on SIP-based enterprise solutions

Pingtel’s sipX open source IP PBX software is highly regarded for its ability to scale to support up to 10,000 users; as an independent entity, Pingtel landed Amazon.com as its largest publicly announced customer. The Amazon.com installation reportedly supports over 5,000 users in a high-availability configuration.

Skype has released the Skype 4.0 Beta for Windows, focusing on better video calling and conversation management. The focus on video is driven by 28 percent of Skype calls in the first quarter of 2008 were video calls. The new version starts up a video call with a single click on a button with an IM conversation next to the video call can be generated with one click from one window. New “unified conversations capabilities” pull IM voice, video, file transfers, SMS and calls together to allow users to easily move in and out of conversations between single users or groups. There’s also additional ease of use features for installation, finding contacts, and adding new devices.

Beta for the new version is expected to span the entire summer, given the complexity of all the changes made; there are also some [+]