nomi-mobile let you make international calls from your mobile and home phone at near VOIP prices !

Just replace your UK SIM with a £5 nomi SIM then buy a top-up (from any of the outlets below) and start making calls to other UK mobiles/landlines/etc @ 13p/min or to International destinations (for example calls to Turkey are only 5p min). You can also pre-dial the UK access number 080 0008 6805 from a UK landline and pay even lower prices ! There’s even a charity version of the SIM available !

http://www.parallels.com/en/news/id,13122

March 19, 2008

RENTON, Wash., March 19, 2008 – Parallels (formerly SWsoft) today announced that Swyx Solutions AG has selected Parallels Virtuozzo Containers 4.0 to deliver a cost-efficient and scalable hosted PBX application via a software-as-a-service (SaaS) model.

Using Parallels software, Swyx quickly delivered “Hosted SwyxWare,” a hosted solution based on its “SwyxWare” telecommunications system for Microsoft Windows. Hosted SwyxWare combines locally installed software components and virtual-PBX servers running in Parallels Virtuozzo Containers, which helps businesses save money by replacing or supplementing their conventional PBX solutions.

There a number of providers let you dial a 084 or 087 number (from the UK) and redirect your call to an international / overseas number for you !

For example with www.phonecheap.co.uk you can dial 084 4300 4242 to call landlines or dial 087 1551 6868 to call mobiles in Turkey !

You can find lists of providers at www.magsys.co.uk or simply dial providers and there are more international / overseas voip telephone calling tips at www.moneysavingexpert.com

Pidgin lets you IM “your friends using AIM, ICQ, Jabber/XMPP, MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, IRC, Novell GroupWise Messenger, QQ, Lotus Sametime, SILC, SIMPLE, MySpaceIM, and Zephyr.”

http://www.worksmart-uk.com/products_avaya.html

MOBIVOX makes it possible to call family and friends around the world for a local call from ANY phone. Just call a local MOBIVOX number and say who you’d like to speak with. No calling cards and long numbers to remember. No need for a computer, special software or complex downloads.

Virtual Switchboard Auto Attendant (virtual pbx) Telephone Numbers

http://www.callsure07050.co.uk/switchboard.html

X11 Lite Settings

Display Name : Your Freshtel Internet Phone Number
User Name : Your Freshtel Internet Phone Number
Password : Your Personal Freshtel Password
Domain : sip.freshtelinternetphone.co.uk

Authorization : Leave Blank

http://www.freespeech.co.uk/ give you unlimited worldwide calls to other VOIP lines.

To deliver next-generation collaboration capabilities to our customers, Novell is adding two new products to its workgroup portfolio.

http://www.novell.com/products/teaming/compare.html

Novell Teaming and Novell Teaming & Conferencing

Real-time VOIP Conferencing
Real-time Web Conferencing