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VoIP firms race to answer market's call (BizJournals)
Competition is heating up for VoIP companies, with two Bay Area firms announcing big steps in the industry's quest to replace the telephone.

Digifonica Announces Strategic Partner Agreement With Ghost Telecom (CNW Group via Yahoo! Finance)
Digifonica International Inc. , an Internet telecommunications Service Provider and technology licensing company, announced today that it has entered into an agreement with Ghost Telecom Limited to fully integrate Digifonica's IP Telecommunication backbone into GTL's low-cost international calling for mobile phones service.

Jajah Chosen to Power Gizmo5 VoIP Services (Mashable)
After launching a telephony platform and landing Yahoo as one of its first clients, Jajah is well on its way to becoming a dominating force in the world of VoIP phone calls. Today, Gizmo5 (formerly SIPphone) has announced its decision to select Jajah’s Managed Services platform to power portions of its own VoIP service. [...]

Features and Case Studies (ZDNet Australia)
Multicore processors have been around since 2005, when Intel shipped its first dual-core processor and the advantages of many cores have been widely touted, but a working model for costing software to work with them is still on its way.

T-Mobile Launches Home Phone Service For $10 A Month (paidContent.org via Yahoo! Finance)
About a year ago, T-Mobile USA launched Hotspot@Home, a service that encourages people to drop their landline by allowing customers to roam on to Wi-Fi to get unlimited phone calls for $10 a month.

Can you replace your landline for $10 per month? (TG Daily)
T-Mobile took a stab at an already dying industry and is offering a VoIP replacement for your landline telephone service for a flat fee of $10 per month. The T-Mobile offer has serious implications as it is not only darn close to being free, but it is also marketed as an add-on to your cellphone, which essentially downgrades your landline to being a secondary service. The question really is: Are ...

Jaxtr Finally Enables Out-of-Network Calling, Raises $10 Million (TechCrunch)
Jaxtr, the online VoIP service that also offers a social network, has launched out-of-network calling that will allow users to call phone lines around the world. The new service will allow users to call family and friends (even non-members) from their own phones for a fraction of the costs associated with traditional long [...]

Lean, Mean Machines: Tech for the SMB, Part 2 (E-Commerce Times)
The continuing growth of the SMB market is pushing vendors to adapt or lose sales. Vendors are tweaking their more costly enterprise-grade offerings to feature sets and price levels SMB customers can afford. The SMB segment makes up 34 percent of the entire notebook market, according to research firm IDC.

Jaxtr Makes International Calls Cheap and Easy; Raises $10M to Go Global (Mashable)
Jaxtr is introducing new features that make both its service and international calling in general much more convenient. The company, which previously has focused mostly on widgets to let friends call you from your social networking profiles, is now opening up to allow you to call anyone in the world (at least in 220 [...]

Cambodia leapfrogs to 3G (ZDNet Asia)
New entrant Cadcomm is banking on its QB 3G network to deliver services such as mobile TV and high-speed Internet access, and outshine market incumbents. Compare your salary Use the IT salary benchmark wizard and know the average salary differences between different job functions. Join activeTechPros. http://www.activetechpros.com