ALSO NOTED: Senate bill would force carriers to take VoIP E911; Zimmerman is back with VoIP security; and much more...

> Vonage (remember them?) and emergency responders are backing a Senate bill that would require telcos to let VoIP providers connect to E911 systems. Article

> For today's entry in the "analyst who misses the point" sweepstakes, I give you Forrester Research. Analyst Zayera Khan looked at five VoIM European services and pronounced them too hard for the mass market to use. I don't know what qualifies as a "mass market," but Skype claims 136 million registered users. If only 10 percent of them are active, that's 13.6 million--a market that strikes me as being pretty "mass." Report

> Phil Zimmerman, the inventor of the PGP e-mail encryption software, has some up with ZRTP, an encryption protocol for Internet telephony. The product is called Zfone. Article

> Cisco's latest products have features aimed squarely at small businesses. Report

> One stock analyst thinks Verizon and Vonage will work thing out, because there's too much investment money at stake. Article

> Four open-source VoIP alternatives. Report

And finally... About time, my wife says. Article