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Voxbone
August 17, 2007
As you may recall, Voxbone had announced a developer contest a while back and in my blog post about the contest I mentioned the three winners will get:
- Recognition as a Voxbone certified developer. Recommendation to customers and partners in need of a third-party developer for integrating the Voxbone API.
- Marketing and promotion of winning projects to the specialized press and to Voxbone contacts
- Listing and description of winning projects on the Voxbone website
Now, I am told the winners have been named. I am sure you are on the edge of your seat, waiting for the winners. Rest assured, this blog entry will not end with “To be continued…” ;)
Without further ado, the winners are:
First place: Oigaa:
Voztelecom’s Oigaa is a primary line VoIP service for small and medium businesses around the world. It replaces old PBX and traditional voice lines and runs over the Internet providing all telephony facilities, including PBX call control. Business communications are improved through capabilities such as presence, instant messaging and conferencing. The Oigaa web control panel implements VoxAPI v2.0 and offers online ordering and configurations of Voxbone DID numbers. For more information, go to www.oigaa.com
Second place: IVR Factory:
X Machine’s IVR Factory is a web-based IVR content management system, deployment and hosting platform. It enables the building, deployment and archiving of professional IVR applications in minutes with a few clicks and drag and drops. It enables individuals to route applications to local, toll-free or national numbers in major markets all over the world. For more information, go to www.ivrfactory.com
Third place: DTL R Manager:
Communicatii Libere’s DTL R manager is an open source Asterisk-based PBX solution with advanced features such as reseller routing, accounting, multi-level user portal, DID management. For more information, go to www.hostedvpnswitch.com
According to Rodrigue Ullens, co-founder of Voxbone, “Our contest demonstrated the power of VoxAPI and uncovered some very creative ways to realize business benefits. We congratulate our winners and are pleased to offer $10,000 to Voztelecom.”
I am sure you are wondering who Voxbone is… The company leases international VoIP virtual phone numbers and worldwide origination services via VoIP to organizations in North and South America, Europe and Asia/Pacific regions. It delivers call origination and provides the global infrastructure that enables its customers to expand to international markets. Using direct inbound dial (DID) also called virtual numbers from Voxbone, customers may receive inexpensive, locally dialed phone calls. Using standard VoIP hardware, customers utilize the Voxbone API or web portal for the configuration of the acquired DIDs and to choose to which IP appliance the calls are diverted.
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Fonality
August 17, 2007
Here is a podcast interview of Chris Lyman the CEO of Fonality. Topics of interest? I asked Chris why he started Fonality, what pains his company solves for customers and we get into a discussion of trixbox Pro and trixnet.
Chris is one of the more dynamic personalities in communications. How many other CEOs are into extreme sports and compete on a semi-professional level? Hopefully you will enjoy the interview as much as I enjoyed producing it.
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TMC Gets Some Press
August 17, 2007
Having your cake and eating it too is how it think about this article in the San Francisco Chronicle with a quote from TMC’s Tom Keating and TMC friend Om Malik. Here is an excerpt:
Tom Keating, chief technology officer for Internet Telephony Magazine, said he's heard from a number of businesses that rely on Skype to keep workers in touch with each other as well as clients. He said the instant-messaging feature is particularly popular with users because it works around many company firewalls.Keating said the outage may be related to some maintenance work Skype completed Wednesday night. He said it's unlikely the problem was caused by an outside attack from hackers."It's very possible that the change they did with maintenance could have had some unanticipated cascade affect," said Keating.Technology blogger Om Malik said the failure may reveal some weaknesses in the peer-to-peer technology on which Skype relies. Normally, peer-to-peer systems work to route traffic around problems, ensuring a consistent connection."Venture capitalists who have been funding (peer-to-peer) services should take this as an early warning on the fragility of the whole (peer-to-peer) ecosystem, where a small glitch can cause widespread problems," Malik wrote Thursday on his blog GigaOm.
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Skype Update
August 17, 2007
You may recall yesterday that I wrote about Skype having problems. It seems most of the service is back to normal according to Skype’s Heartbeat Blog. Here is the latest blog post:
As Europe has woken up to a new day and Asia is entering the evening hours, here’s the latest on the sign-on problem.
We’re on the road to recovery. Skype is stabilizing, but this process may continue throughout the day.An encouraging number of users can now use Skype once again. We know we’re not out of the woods yet, but we are in better shape now than we were yesterday.
Finally, we’d like to dispel a couple of theories that we are still hearing. Neither Wednesday’s planned maintenance of our web-based payment services nor any form of attack was related to the current sign-on issues in any way.
We’ll update you again as soon as we can. Thanks for hanging tight.
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