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All Hail the (Malicious) Human Brain

I am forever amazed at the creativity of human beings. Look at all the companies we have produced. The trillions of dollars of wealth we have created. It is amazing that our combined genius has dramatically raised the standard of... Full Story

Posted on June 26, 2009 3:02 PM

Digium's Support Services Makes Open Source Communications Safer

Updated 7:56 PM EST, April 20, 2009We are in what we may want to call an open-source friendly economy and in such a market companies are more likely than ever to be persuaded that free software is worth serious consideration. But... Full Story

Posted on April 20, 2009 5:11 PM

Escaux Brings Unified Communications to Google Android

Escaux, a European unified communications software provider for SMB and enterprise customers has a new mobile UC solution which allows Asterisk to Interop with with multiple IP and cellular phone types. For example, Nokia and Polycom are some of the... Full Story

Posted on February 28, 2009 5:22 PM

Cuba Launches Nova OS Based on Linux

The goal of this post is not to make a political statement but rather a financial one. The law of unintended consequences seems to have a way of really stinging those of us in the tech space. For example, in... Full Story

Posted on February 12, 2009 10:34 AM

Windows 7/Vista Changes Tech's Future

Since Microsoft started to produce GUI-based operating systems, they have been responsible for helping the entire tech space. Redmond's operating systems and software have always been bloated, taking up more space than equivalent products from other companies. Much of the... Full Story

Posted on February 9, 2009 4:03 PM

ITEXPO East 2009 Keynote Digium Danny Windham

Updated with new video file Wednesday, Feb 4, 2009 9:52 am EST.Danny Windham did a great job today giving an informative and educational keynote address. Here is a short video clip (which is about 15 MB). ... Full Story

Posted on February 3, 2009 1:25 PM

Asterisk, Trixbox and Switchvox Training

It is a foregone conclusion that the open source market will benefit as companies look to take advantage of the lower costs and productivity benefits of IP communications and collaboration while holding the line on costs. If you are a... Full Story

Posted on January 20, 2009 11:23 AM

Sangoma Explains Launch of B600 Line of Analog Voice Cards

Sangoma recently unveiled a new line of analog voice cards dubbed B600 and I was curious how the company sees these cards helping the industry. As you may know, Sangoma is a well-known quality Asterisk-compatible board maker. More recently... Full Story

Posted on December 3, 2008 10:23 PM

Linux On The iPhone

Now that Linux is sort of up and running on the iPhone, what's next? Will we see Asterisk, MySQL and other open-source programs running in your pocket soon? This is very interesting but remember that Apple devices are ultra-successful because... Full Story

Posted on November 29, 2008 3:26 PM

Digium/Asterisk World Has Nine Booths Already

With all the gloom and doom talk, I thought it might be worth sharing some really good news. I just got back into the office this morning after traveling for a few days and heard the great news that Digium... Full Story

Posted on October 23, 2008 5:35 PM

Is Open Source a Business Model

A new report from 451 Group tells us the obvious -- open source is not a business model. Having spent countless hours with execs at Sangoma, Digium and Fonality I can tell you this is common sense in communications. In... Full Story

Posted on October 15, 2008 2:23 PM

SIP Trunking Article

FierceVoIP has a great article on SIP Trunking which does happen to mention ITEXPO which takes place next week in Los Angeles. As you may have guessed -- it is written by Doug Mohney -- the smiling gentleman pictured to... Full Story

Posted on September 11, 2008 2:22 PM

Fonality Gets More Funding

Fonality just received a $12 million financing round by Draper Fisher Jurvetson Growth Fund. This is a powerful statement by this top fund that they really beleive in the open source communications story and to be quite honest, it is... Full Story

Posted on September 4, 2008 8:49 AM

Digium Building Tour

I have often discussed how well the open-source communications market is doing and certainly the success of Asterisk/Digium is a good indication of how the market is today and where it might be headed. A while back I visited Digium's... Full Story

Posted on August 26, 2008 11:28 AM

How the iPhone Has Changed the Mobile Game

Finally, after weeks/months of waiting I got an iPhone 3G. You may recall the mix-up I had at the AT&T Wireless store which seemed like it would keep me from ever getting one. Well, the store manager had been emailing... Full Story

Posted on August 22, 2008 5:06 PM

Trixbox Certification

The open source world of communications is growing rapidly. Recently I discussed the Nortel acquisition of PingTel and what this means for our markets.Ironically the competition in open source was once between Digium and PingTel and when Asterisk became the... Full Story

Posted on August 15, 2008 11:47 AM

Nortel's PingTel Strategy

You may be interested in how PingTel fits into Nortel's strategy. Here are the details according to the Hyperconnected Enterprise blog:1. Our strategy is UC, and sipXecs is a native SIP solution consistent with our strategy. 2. Our strategy is... Full Story

Posted on August 15, 2008 10:28 AM

Nortel Buys Pingtel

Years back -- in the mid-late nineties in fact I came across Pingtel, a company who saw the oncoming VoIP revolution (we called it IP telephony back then) and decided to place their bets on this burgeoning market by... Full Story

Posted on August 13, 2008 9:33 AM

ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE BURCEAG FAMILY FUND

I received this email recently and it certainly speaks for itself. The least I could do is pass it along. ---  Rich - You may have heard by now our company has suffered an irretrievable loss through the passing away of Edward... Full Story

Posted on June 16, 2008 8:23 AM

Switchvox AA300

Greg Galitzine  broke the news regarding the new Digium Switchvox AA300, a new appliance dedicated to companies with about 150 users. The box also supports 45 simultaneous calls, 10 recorded and 15 simultaneous conference calls. Tom Keating speculates about... Full Story

Posted on June 9, 2008 12:03 PM

New Asterisk Community

In an effort to further educate purchasing decision-makers and influencers in the world of communications and technology, TMC has partnered with Digium to build an Asterisk Global Online Community. The goal of TMCnet's communities (and channels which are micro-communities) is... Full Story

Posted on May 29, 2008 11:00 AM

Sangoma Blows Out Earnings -- Again

Wow! Yes -- I know we are supposed to be in a slowdown and all -- but if the news that Sangoma had yet another record quarter is not enough to let you know that there are strong pockets of... Full Story

Posted on May 28, 2008 5:41 PM

Flash to SIP Video and Back

I just read about a company which allows Flash to SIP and SIP to Flash video calls. This could be useful for situations where SIP is not an option for whatever reason. According to ISC the company behind Flashphone.ru, video... Full Story

Posted on May 27, 2008 11:23 AM

Roku: The Apple of TV?

Without a doubt, the new Netflix Player by Roku set top box will become a serious contender for the title "iPod of the world of television." I haven't seen this device yet but based on what I have read... Full Story

Posted on May 21, 2008 9:51 AM

Linux In The Dashboard?

Would you want an open source OS in your car... Controlling everything from the motor to the brakes to the internet access? Frankly, over the years, TMC has grown with not only Microsoft computers but we relied on Unix since... Full Story

Posted on May 21, 2008 6:27 AM