Zeacom, a Unified Communications (UC) and contact center software company, has introduced their Zeacom Gateway for Microsoft Office Communications Server. The OCS is a desktop app that allows enterprise companies to communicate across the business and outside using any Microsoft Office application or the OCS app.

The Zeacom Gateway will allow small- and medium-size enterprises to integrate their existing phone systems with the Microsoft OCS system making it easy to upgrade their systems to a UC platform. Using the Zeacom Gateway to upgrade their existing phone systems and connect to the Microsoft OCS companies will have access to new functionality like presence, Click-to-Dial, remote presence, and desktop sharing.

For more:
- read the release

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JAJAH, the IP communications company, is working with Microsoft to provide SIP Trunking services to Microsoft enterprise customers globally. According to the firm this will allow companies to make high quality voice calls over JAJAH's IP Platform in the cloud, without requiring an infrastructure upgrade.

Toshiba's telecommunication division has announced integration of Microsoft Office Communications Server (OCS) 2007 Remote Call Control (RCC) capabilities with its Toshiba Strata CIX family of VoIP business communication systems.
Brian Metherell, vice president and general manager of Toshiba America Information Systems, Telecommunication Systems Division, said that with the integration, enterprise users of Toshiba's Strata CIX family of VoIP business communication systems can Click-to-Dial from Microsoft OCS 2007 using a Toshiba Strata telephone device.

JAJAH has announced that it has just connected its one billionth call - a 29-year-old woman in San Francisco who was calling her mother in India.
Not bad going for a company that launched just three years ago as a web-based consumer VoIP service and which now has over 25 million users and partnerships with the likes of Intel, Microsoft and Yahoo!

VoIP applications are one of 12 application types that will be verboten at Microsoft's Windows MarketPlace for Mobile store when it launches in the second half of this year. Microsoft also doesn't like apps that change the default browser on a device.

Microsoft is winning praise for posting a clear set of rules as to what can and can't go up in its applications store, but is likely to get criticism by open networks/network neutrality types who will ask why. Third-party VoIP services that run over an operator's data network, thereby bypassing the billable voice minutes bucket, aren't the sort of thing that service providers really want to see available.

PC World speculates that the ban is limited to "VoIP services" and "presumably" developers will be able to offer VoIP apps using Wi-Fi, but there's no way of truly knowing until we see the apps out there. Developers are also being forbidden to offer up programs that change the default phone dialer, SMS or MMS service interfaces.

For more:
- PC World details Microsoft's Marketplace for Mobile store. Post.

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TringMe has launched a widget that allows users to make VoIP calls from Microsoft Silverlight applications.
Silverlight doesn't allow access to a mic - a problem for VoIP calls - so TringMe used a backdoor Flash widget to access it.

Microsoft has awarded fring's mobile VoIP application its “Designed for Window Mobile” certification.
The approval is the latest for fring, which has been working to develop its popular IM/ VOIP application for different platforms.

The VoIP phone maker and developer Snom Technology is opening an office in Milan.
In what could be a barometer of the current state of Europe's economies, the German company ruled out a move to the UK.
Heike Cantzler, marketing manager for Snom Technology, said both the UK and Italy were considered for the expansion.