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Rock Out to the Asterisk Song
GM Voices, creator of professional voice prompts for companies has just released "The Asterisk Song" with patriotic Asterisk lyrics such as "It ain't no punctuation." For true Asterisk patriots, "asterisk" aka "*" can not be used in a sentence unless... Full Story
Posted on January 26, 2010 10:34 AM
Yahoo's Challenges Deploying Asterisk Corporate-wide
At TMC's ITEXPO, Yahoo's Jeremy Wadhams revealed not only that Yahoo! has deployed Asterisk corporate-wide, but the challenges he faced in adopting Asterisk throughout the organization, including several Yahoo! branch offices , several acquisitions of other companies, including Dialpad... Full Story
Posted on January 20, 2010 9:43 PM
Ifbyphone Acquires Cloudvox - Offers Flexible Cloud Telephony
At ITEXPO, Ifbyphone announced that have acquired Cloudvox, a company that offers "open" hosted Asterisk telephony applications. I spoke with Irv Shapiro, CEO of Ifbyphone by phone just after he passed through Chicago Ohare's airport security on his way down... Full Story
Posted on January 20, 2010 9:00 AM
Asterisk's Growth Shines at ITEXPO
Asterisk just may be the #1 transforming VoIP company for the now past '00s "aughts" decade, which is quite appropriate when you consider Asterisk in many respects costs $0 dollars due to being open source. Of course, nothing is truly... Full Story
Posted on January 7, 2010 11:30 AM
Positron Telecommunication's Innovative Asterisk-on-a-Card
In the January issue of Internet Telephony Magazine is a TMC Labs review of Positron Telecommunication Systems V114 analog PCI "Asterisk-on-a-card". They also have an ISDN version and a E1/T1 version. I thought I would share the review here... Full Story
Posted on December 17, 2009 9:53 AM
Digium|Asterisk World Expands At ITEXPO
TMC and Digium announced that all exhibit space sold out at their expanded Digium|Asterisk World, scheduled to take place Jan. 20-22, 2010 as part of ITEXPO East in Miami, Florida. Recently, TMC was forced to expand the Digium|Asterisk World... Full Story
Posted on December 1, 2009 11:28 AM
Digium CEO Danny Windham to Deliver Keynote Address at ITEXPO East 2010 in Miami
Some good internal news at TMC. Technology Marketing Corporation today announced that Digium CEO Danny Windham has accepted its invitation to deliver a Keynote Address at ITEXPO East 2010, taking place Jan. 20-22, 2010 at the Miami Beach Convention Center... Full Story
Posted on November 9, 2009 11:25 AM
Mashup Google Wave, Skype, and Asterisk = Ultimate Coolness
Skype Journal wrote about one of the coolest mashups I've ever seen. Certainly one of the coolest VoIP mashups. Skype Journal explains PhoneFromHere Tim Panton's demo that he gave at Astricon where Tim mashes up Google Wave, Skype, Asterisk running... Full Story
Posted on November 5, 2009 2:10 PM
IBM & Digium Join Forces on Asterisk for Smart Cube
In a fascinating deal, IBM and Digium announced today that they are teaming up to offer Asterisk for Smart Cube, a customized version of Asterisk Business Edition. IBM's Smart Cube is very similar to Microsoft Small Business Server (SBS), a... Full Story
Posted on October 15, 2009 4:14 PM
AstriCon Adds to your Asterisk Arsenal
The 10th Anniversary of the AstriCon 2009 conference is next week in Arizona (October 13-15) and it is shaping up to be a great show. For one, AstriCon is sporting 30% more companies in the Expo Hall than last year's... Full Story
Posted on October 6, 2009 11:18 AM
AstriCon Asterisk Conference Soon
After ITEXPO's resounding success in Los Angeles (over 6,000 attendees), we can definitively say VoIP hasn't been as badly affected as other industry sectors within the U.S. economy. In just about 3 weeks, we can confirm this is true with... Full Story
Posted on September 18, 2009 10:01 AM
ShoreTel Lands 1st 'Skype for SIP' interoperability
ShoreTel is the first company to land SIP interoperability with Skype for SIP - before Avaya, Cisco, Mitel, Nortel, or any Asterisk-based PBX. I can't help but find the irony in this news since ShoreTel did not support third-party SIP... Full Story
Posted on September 9, 2009 12:00 AM
SIP Print SME VoIP Recording Appliance Launches
SIP Print is announcing today the general availability of a new, enterprise-class call recording platform for mid-market enterprises. The new SIP Print SME platform offers support for up to 200 seats per location, along with RAID hot-swappable drive bays, dual... Full Story
Posted on September 1, 2009 10:19 AM
Asterisk Training Courses at ITEXPO
Can you believe ITEXPO is just two weeks away? It's also almost September. Where did the Summer go? ITEXPO, the #1 VoIP conference in the U.S., has several educational tracks you might be interested in checking out. Of particular interest... Full Story
Posted on August 17, 2009 10:22 AM
Using monit Tool to Monitor Asterisk
Your IP-PBX is one of the most critical pieces of corporate infrastructure. It cannot afford any downtime, which is why the fives 9's (99.999%) of reliability was coined. While Asterisk is a pretty stable open source IP-PBX platform, it... Full Story
Posted on April 17, 2009 11:14 AM
AsteriskNOW 1.5.0 Released
AsteriskNOW 1.5.0, which launched as a beta in October 2008, is now available for download at http://www.asterisknow.org/downloads. Of course, existing AsteriskNOW users can simply run "yum update" to update to the latest release. I love 'yum' for Linux systems -... Full Story
Posted on April 1, 2009 8:45 PM
Digium Launches Support Services for Asterisk
Some big news from Digium. Rich Tehrani met with them yesterday to get the inside scoop. Rich takes copious notes on his iPhone, which he sent off to me to try and write up this news. Alas, I've been... Full Story
Posted on March 31, 2009 2:39 PM
Bring Out Your Dead! Wait! Skype for Asterisk is not dead!
Digium has an excellent post today titled The Rumors of Our Death discussing Skype for Asterisk (SFA) and the recently launched (beta) SkypeforSIP (SFS). There has been much discussion on the blogosphere, twitter, and elsewhere if SFS means the... Full Story
Posted on March 26, 2009 10:24 PM
trixbox 2.8 beta is out
In case you missed it, Andrew posted that trixbox 2.8 beta is available and is based on the latest version of Asterisk 1.6. Andrew, is even very complimentary over Asterisk 1.6 & Digum, which is nice to see coming... Full Story
Posted on March 26, 2009 9:54 PM
Finally! New Windows Mobile App AudioRoute Enables Earpiece for VoIP Apps
Finally a software tool called AudioRoute that can be used to route Windows Mobile audio from the earpiece speaker to the backspeaker and vice-versa. This is especially needed for VoIP applications on Windows Mobile phones.I've tested several VoIP apps... Full Story
Posted on March 26, 2009 12:16 PM
Google Voice Meet Asterisk
Nerd Vittles has another cool Asterisk recipe that combines Google Voice, voicemail transcription (via Google Voice), free calling, and of course Asterisk. Nerd does some packet sniffing and determines that Google Voice, powered by Grandcentral, is using SIP. What's most... Full Story
Posted on March 23, 2009 11:06 AM
MFC/R2 support added to Asterisk 1.6.2
Asterisk has just added 'official' MFC/R2 support for chan_dahdi. Here's the commit. The modifications to chan_dahdi, and the supporting library, LibOpenR2, were both written by Moises Silva. According to the commit: Many users are using this code, or a variant... Full Story
Posted on March 17, 2009 10:39 AM
SpinVox Transcribes Skype Voicemail & VoiceScribe does the same for Asterisk
Skype users can now have their voicemails converted into text via SpinVox. Today, SpinVox announced that your Skype voicemails transcribed and sent to you via SMS for €0.20/£0.17/25 cents plus the cost of the SMS. SimulScribe, now PhoneTag, is... Full Story
Posted on March 3, 2009 11:55 AM
PIKA WARP Appliance Adds BRI Support
PIKA Technologies announced today the release of a BRI expansion module for the PIKA WARP Appliance. The PIKA WARP Appliance is a very flexible hardware telecom appliance that can run various flavors of Asterisk, including native Asterisk, Schmooze, trixbox CE,... Full Story
Posted on March 3, 2009 9:25 AM
SHSU Switches Back to Cisco CallManager from Asterisk
In 2006, I came across a Network World article, which espoused the fact that Sam Houston State University (SHSU) had switched from the Cisco CallManager IP-PBX to open source Asterisk. I wrote about this news since 6,000 students and faculty... Full Story
Posted on February 27, 2009 11:17 AM
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