Wireless device solutions vendor, i-mate, and internet telephony provider Skype Technologies, have announced the first wireless mobile handsets preloaded with Skype software.

Worldwide WiFi VoIP handset revenue totaled US$45 million in 2004 and units totaled 113,000, according to research organisation Infonetics Research's latest report, "WiFi Phones Annual Worldwide Market Size and Forecast," which includes annual revenue and unit forecasts through 2009. Revenue and units are projected to show strong growth through 2009 as enterprises slowly but steadily continue to deploy voice over wireless LANs (VoWLAN).

VoIP telephony software developer, Integrated Research (ASX:IRI), has released a new suite of shrink wrap products designed to manage VoIP deployments in multi-site, branch-office organisations such as banks, finance and insurance organizations, retailers, hospitals, travel agents and educational institutions.

Market research in the US has revealed that increased use of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) by cable television operators will help boost cable's presence in the telephone service market.

Everybody is having a rush of blood at the prospect of replacing their old fashioned expensive to use (line rentals and call charges are a killer) plain old telephones, with sleek new cheaper VoIP systems. However, Cisco Australia managing director, Ross Fowler, says it just isn't going to happen anytime soon.

ICT services group, UXC Limited (ASX:UXC), through its business unit Integ Communications, has won a major Alcatel IP telephony contract with big 4 accounting firm Ernst & Young in one of Australia's largest IP rollouts.

There has been a strong global swing to remote working over the last 12 months, driven largely by increased VoIP and broadband usage, according to a new survey from AT&T and the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU).

Telecommunications ICT job advertisement numbers have grown an incredible average 3.38% per week since February this year, according to a recent jobs survey from telco consulting group Badja. What's more, the pace is expected to continue in 2005.

Adelaide-based ISP, Chariot Limited (ASX:CTI) and UK and US-based VoIP enterprise, Transcom International Limited, have formed a partnership to launch a low cost internet telephony system early in 2005.

The news that Taipei, a city of 3 million, is to install ubiquitous Wi-Fi coverage should not come as a surprise to anyone who has had a taste of wireless broadband via the numerous hot spots springing up around our capitals. What it portends, however, is not good news for traditional carriers.

In a report launched in Australia today, Getting off the Ground: Why the move to VoIP is a decision for all CXOs, Deloitte reveals that by 2006 over two-thirds of all Global 2,000 companies will have started deployment of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) to the desktop.

A new whitepaper released by KPMG today has warned of risks associated with replacing traditional telephone networks with VoIP telephony solutions in business.

Systems performance management software developer Integrated Research (ASX:IRI) will open a new office in Washington DC to better support customers in the US Eastern time zone and to address what it sees as growing opportunities in the IP telephony market.

The Australian Communications Authority has moved to introduce a regulatory framework for the VoIP telephony market and is taking submissions from stakeholders. The submissions will be taken until the close of 2004.

Now that a voice over IP (VOIP) broadband telephony service for Australian consumers  is on the shelves of major retailers Dick Smith Electronics, Powerhouse and Tandy, the question remains will consumers take to it.  engin Voice Box from ASX listed Mobile Innovations Limited (MOB) allows home users to make calls to, and receive calls from any landline or mobile phone over a broadband Internet connection.