Broadcom announced that it is offering its BroadVoice family of voice codecs royalty-free and without any licensing fees.

“As a direct response to customer demand for advanced, high-quality voice solutions and development tools”, Broadcom is releasing its wideband and narrowband BroadVoice codecs in both floating-point and fixed-point C code as open source software under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL), version 2.1, as published by the Free Software Foundation.

VoxOx is offering new freeware that comes with a Personal Assistant feature that includes call recording, call forwarding, call routing, and call screening.
The multi-protocol messaging and VoIP communication client also has expanded social-networking features and stronger back-end support.

VoIP start-up fring has announced that it intends to accelerate its growth plans after completing a third round of funding.
Avi Shechter, fring co-founder and CEO, said a key objective is to make the free VoIP and IM service easier to use for mainstream "fringsters".

INTERVIEW: Alan Paton, research director for independent VoIP comparison website LowCostMob.com, tells voip.biz-news about the increasingly crowded - and sometimes confusing - mobile VoIP market.
He also explains how social networking and Instant Messaging services such as Twitter have the potential to extend the appeal of mobile VoIP beyond simply offering cheap calls.

Vyke today announced it has formed a partnership with mobile social networking company Nimbuzz.
The move is intended to build upon the strengths of both Vyke and Nimbuzz by combining the former's paid mVoIP service with the latter's mobile peer to peer mobile social messaging and VoIP services.

C2Call has launched a second beta of its computer-to-computer service that allows free calls around the world.
The German startup also introduced new APIs - software tools that enable social media sites to add browser-based voice calls to any Web site.