One ring to rule them all: Services like GrandCentral :- recently acquired by Google - offer you a single number that rings all your phone numbers (VoIP, cell or PSTN), plus a single voice-mail box that all those phones' messages go to. GrandCentral also treats calls differently depending on whether you want specific callers to ring through to you, or go straight to voice mail. It also lists voice messages in an e-mail-like format on your mobile, allowing you to listen to the one you really want to hear first. VoIP makes calling cheap; GrandCentral makes how you use VoIP and legacy telecom technologies easier and more transparent for you.

One ring to rule them all: Services like GrandCentral :- recently acquired by Google - offer you a single number that rings all your phone numbers (VoIP, cell or PSTN), plus a single voice-mail box that all those phones' messages go to. GrandCentral also treats calls differently depending on whether you want specific callers to ring through to you, or go straight to voice mail. It also lists voice messages in an e-mail-like format on your mobile, allowing you to listen to the one you really want to hear first. VoIP makes calling cheap; GrandCentral makes how you use VoIP and legacy telecom technologies easier and more transparent for you.

Audio conference calling specialist Vapps on Friday said it received a $2.5 million cash infusion from Azure Capital and a couple of its original angel investors.

IPsmarx Technology Inc., a leading provider of full-featured, turnkey Voice Over IP (VoIP) solutions to Internet Telephony Service Providers (ITSPs), entrepreneurs, VoIP Calling Card Operators and ISPs, today announces that its clients, especially service providers who own an IPsmarx softswitch solution, can now offer VoIP-based services to users of the popular iPhone.

deltathree, Inc. (Nasdaq:DDDC), a leading provider of SIP-based Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) solutions for service providers and consumers worldwide, announced that tomorrow Market America, an online shopping and One-to-One Marketing company, will launch its new Voitel(tm) VoIP Home Phone Service powered by deltathree's Hosted Consumer VoIP Solution platform. Voitel(tm) VoIP Home Phone Service will provide Market America's distributors a cost-effective and high quality communications service alternative to traditional telephony. The Voitel(tm) offering will be unveiled tomorrow at Market America's Annual International Convention, being held at the Greensboro Coliseum Complex in North Carolina. Voitel(tm) service will be immediately available to Market America's over 150,000 distributors, who reach millions of customers worldwide.

For China's high-flying manufacturers of telecom equipment, the U.S. market has always been a no-go zone. The Chinese government wants its companies to go global, but for Huawei Technologies and ZTE, that has meant heading to the developing world.

PALO ALTO, Calif. - A Silicon Valley startup wants to shake up the telecommunications industry with a $399 gizmo that provides free, unlimited domestic phone calls for homes with broadband Internet service.

France Telecom SA, Europe's third- largest phone company, said first-half profit unexpectedly rose 41 percent because of lower taxes and increased broadband Internet subscribers in its home market.

IPsmarx (News - Alert) Technology Inc., a provider of full-featured, turnkey Voice over IP (VoIP) solutions to Internet Telephony (News - Alert) Service Providers (ITSPs), entrepreneurs, VoIP calling card operators and ISPs, has opened an office in New York City. This expansion reflects the company's commitment to extend its market reach, customer service and menu of VoIP-based technology and customer solutions.

Even before cable news channels began to spread news of Minnesota's collapsed bridge catastrophe, engineers at T-Mobile knew something was up because they saw a vivid shift in mobile-phone calling patterns.