AT&T CallVantage customers are getting an email warning that the telco is discontinuing its VoIP service this year. No surprise, since the company stopped selling the service to new customers in August 2008, but will AT&T come up with an alternative offering? Customers within AT&T's service footprint are being asked to contact AT&T for alternative voice service, be it legacy wireline (probably not going to happen, given the continued decline in that service) or U-Verse voice over AT&T DSL. Out of region customers are being told that they have alternatives available with other service providers. [+]

Customers of consumer VoIP provider ooma lost service for about six hours Monday, but according to ooma, irate users should point the finger at Internap instead. Dennis Peng, vice president of product management for ooma, wrote in a blog post that all ooma customers were affected by the outage and that upstream Internet service provider Internap was the source of the connectivity issues. Internap didn't waste time firing back at ooma, as spokeswoman Debra Forrester said the problem was not Internap's fault, and that no other Internap customers experienced a connection failure, indicating the problem was within ooma's system, not Internap's. Ooma Chief Marketing Officer Rich Buchanan wrote an email saying ooma had network logs to prove the disruption was due to an issue with Internap's systems. Ooma representatives said the outage has prompted them to expedite plans to launch a second [+]

We left Voip Inc's affliate program a long time ago when we suspected that something just did not feel right. Apparently we were not the only ones. Three former VoIP Inc. executives are being targeted by the SEC for improper bookkeeping and lying to investors about the financial shape of the company. A complaint filed Monday in Miami federal court says that between November 2004 and May 2005, ex-VoIP inc. CFO and VP of Finance Osvaldo Pitters and GM Terrell Kuykendall recorded $1.4 million in fake revenue from the alleged sale of computer hardware and fees for management services. The inflated revenue raised the company's overall figures for 2004 by 43 percent. It is also alleged that VoIP Inc. CEO Steven Ivester knew the company was struggling and the company's actual revenues were "substantially less" than its projections, said the [+]

The open-source Android platform created by Google is picking up momentum in areas beyond the cell phone. In Asia, Android set-top boxes, TVs, VoIP phones, digital picture frames and even Karaoke boxes are all going to hit retail shelves shortly. A large number of Android-toting devices are expected to be on display at CEATEC, Japan's largest electronics show, including a prototype Android set-top box developed by Motorola for service provider KDDI. The Open Embedded Software Foundation (OESF) is rallying support for Android on non-phone devices. The OESF is a group of 25 companies who plan to have working groups on set-top boxes, VoIP, network and security, measurement and control, system core, application and services, marketing and education. Current members include ARM, KDDI, Japan Cable Laboratories, Alpine Electronics and Fujitsu Software Technologies, with other silicon companies contemplating participation. [+]

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 [+]

ShoreTel ShoreTel got a VoiceCon hat trick by winning the "Best of VoiceCon" award for the third year in a row. This is an award not to be taken lightly, since VoiceCon attendees voted on products. Competition was heavy, with vendors pre-announcing news before the show and handing out bribes (chocolate, typically) to influence voters. Interoperability Few enterprises operate a single-vendor IP communications solution, so Cisco, IBM, and everyone BUT Microsoft (more on them later) was talking up interoperability between unified communications solutions, IP communications solutions, and legacy phone gear. The telepresence/videoconferencing crowd, even stalwarts such as AT&T, were also talking up interoperability. Cisco's telepresence solutions can be extended to T1/E1 users and FiOS/DOCSIS cable modem infrastructure. Bottom line: Nearly everyone wants to play well together, because they realize businesses don't have the cash or desire to flush an existing solution. VoiceCon 2009: IBM puts Sametime [+]