Requestec, an Adobe Flash-to-SIP telephony provider, announced their key involvement in the release of Bell Mobility’s, Bell Video Call application built on the Facebook platform.

The application allows Facebook users to visit the profile page of a Bell subscriber that has added the application and click on their Bell Video Call tab. From here, calls can be made from anywhere in the world to the Bell subscriber’s HSPA Video Calling handset; all at no cost to the caller.

The company claims it’s the first video calling application in North America that is fully integrated into Facebook.

TringMe has announced a method of marrying VoIP with PHP - VoicePHP.
The Bangalore, India-based startup, describes VoicePHP as an extension of PHP that now outputs voice instead of text and also takes input as voice instead of text.

Gizmo5 has launched a web-based VoIP app that allows users to call 800 numbers and SIP addresses for free.
GizmoCall is Flash-based, so it only requires a browser to use the service rather than having to download a software client.
Users go to the Web site, sign up for a username and password, and start making calls.

GizmoCall joins a steadily growing crowd of Adobe Flash-based VoIP tools, as it launched a web-based VoIP app on Monday.

Created by (who else?) Gizmo5, GizmoCall provides a quick online registration setup, and you're in business to make calls. Toll free (800-category) calls are free, as are calls to SIP addresses, other GizmoCall users and Gizmo5 users. GizmoCall can also accept inbound calls to the login user name, so long as the app is running in a window or browser tab (foreground or background). You can also drop one line onto a webpage to do inbound calling from GizmoCall.

A cool feature is a Firefox add on/plug in to enable any phone number on a web page to be clickable and called through GizmoCall. However, to make outbound calls, that's where having a Gizmo5 GizmoCall account comes in handy, with outbound calls starting at 1.9 cents per minute after forking over $10 for initial credits.  

The Adobe Flash client should work on Mac, Windows and Linux platforms.

Adobe Flash 10 has been at the heart of sky-high IP controversy for VoIP calls, with Adobe Flash VoIP apps initially being able to work around firewall blocks for in-flight broadband services such as Gogo. GizmoCall may end up on a short list of blocked sites and/or apps by the airlines.

For more:
- A blog on the new GizmoCall.

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