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Skype is sharing their SILK wideband audio codec for free. Read about it on Voice Over IP Weblog.
VoIP News of the UK reports that Ixia has launched a VoIP testing service.
VoIP Watch chats a bit about the travel industry and video conferencing.

RoamAnywhere Mobility Router is now available in Europe. Agito Networks, the company behind RoamAnywhere, says that their solution lets companies cut back on telephony expenses by bringing the capabilities of VoIP over WLAN to mobile phones.
“In a lot of enterprises, people are using their mobile phone as their primary phone, instead of their deskphone,” said [...]

It’s not conference season or anything, is it?
Bryan R. Martin, the Chairman and CEO of 8×8, Inc., will be presenting at the 5th Annual Winter Technology Conference held by Security Research Associates at the Omni Hotel in San Francisco on Monday, March 9. He is scheduled to talk at 1:30 p.m.
According to 8×8:
Conference attendees will [...]

Gwinnett County Public Schools is taking a big step so that they can better reach homebound students. With the help of Alcatel-Lucent, the district has created an interactive learning environment for students who learn at home using VoIP services. They’ve chocen Alcatel-Lucent OmniTOuch My Teamwork Unified Conferencing and Collaboration, which they say will connect teachers [...]