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Voice World Europe 2005

Voice World Europe focuses on business end-users, who seek business solutions through speech. The event comprises exciting presentations and innovative case studies from across Europe and beyond. It will be held in Olympia Conference Centre, London, on 3-5 May.

Telstra completes next generation voice trial

Lucent Technologies has announced that Telstra, Australia's leading telecommunications and information services company, has recently completed a Next Generation Voice engineering trial with residential customers in Victoria, Australia.

VoIP and 911 Emergency Calls

Verizon will provide Voice-over-Internet-Protocol (VoIP) service providers and their vendors the ability to use Verizon's Enhanced 911 emergency calling system to connect VoIP customer 911 calls to Public Safety Answering Points.

Cisco Systems to Acquire Sipura Technology

Cisco Systems announced a definitive agreement to acquire Sipura Technology, a key technology provider for Linksys' current line of VoIP networking devices.

ATIS fraud Prevention Committee Tackles VoIP Fraud

Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS) announced that its Telecommunications Fraud Prevention Committee (TFPC) will review how a person committing fraud would be identified in a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) environment.

VCON Provides Renault with a 500-user IP Video Communications Installation

VCON announced that its endpoints and infrastructure solutions are now deployed in the Renault Group to provide video communications to 500 users over its corporate network. The installation includes VCON's IP infrastructure servers and desktop endpoints.

Alarm.com partners with Vonage

Alarm.com made publicly known the marketing alliance established with Vonage Holdings Corporation to address the growing need for Voice-over-IP compatible security systems for residential and commercial VoIP customers.

'Caesars Palace to launch guest biometrics'

Caesars Palace, one of the largest hotels on the Las Vegas Strip, is using the opening of its newest tower later this year to roll out technologies including voice over IP telephones in guestrooms and the use of biometric keys for its customers, reports Silicon.com.

SkypeIn and Skype Voicemail Beta

Skype has announced the public beta launch of SkypeIn and Skype Voicemail, two new premium services available in the latest download versions of Skype software for Linux, MAC OS X, Pocket PC and Windows platforms.

PIKA Technologies selected by Empirix

PIKA Technologies announced that Empirix Inc. has chosen reliable PIKA media processing building blocks to enable voice services in its Hammer FX-TDM test systems.