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Digium Headquarters Tour

During my tour of Digium's headquarters in Huntsville, Alabama I snapped quite a few photos that I thought I'd share. I'll just share a few here, but if you want to see them all, go check out the online... Full Story

Posted on August 26, 2008 10:36 AM

fring touchtone DTMF support - uh hello?

I've been playing around with fring for awhile now. I like fring which I like to call "the Swiss army knife of mobile VoIP and IM", since it works with Skype, SIP, MSN Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, Google Talk, ICQ,... Full Story

Posted on August 25, 2008 4:53 PM

Digium Asterisk Appliance AA1080 or AA1060?

Bill Miller commented I may have seen some yet-unreleased products during my tour. During my tour of Digium's headquarters, I snapped some photos, so I thought perhaps one of my photos might contain some top secret Digium product, so I... Full Story

Posted on August 25, 2008 1:42 PM

Digium AsteriskNOW News and more...

As I hinted last week, I would have some "interesting" news to tell after my visit to Digium's brand new headquarters along with colleagues Greg Galitzine and Dave Rodriguez. Before I get into the MAJOR news being made by... Full Story

Posted on August 25, 2008 1:32 PM

Internet Finally Takes Off into the Clouds

American Airlines began offering Internet access on long-haul domestic flights today, making American the first U.S. airline to offer full in-flight broadband, according to a Reuters report. The world's largest airline said its passengers on Boeing 767-200 aircraft can... Full Story

Posted on August 20, 2008 5:42 PM

VoSKY Exchange Pro VISIP-EX SIP PBX-to-Skype gateway

VoSKY just announced the VoSKY Exchange Pro VISIP-EX, a SIP-to-Skype gateway product that bridges the Skype network with SIP-based IP-PBXs and SIP gateways. The VoSKY Exchange Pro VISIP-EX enables companies with SIP-enabled PBXs to add Skype trunks for inexpensive calling.... Full Story

Posted on August 19, 2008 12:53 PM

Digium AA50 1.2 Software Released

Yesterday, Digium released version 1.2 for the Digium Asterisk Appliance 50 (AA50). It's been awhile since I've heard any news about the AA50, so I'm glad to see Digium is still developing for the AA50 even with their new Switchvox-based... Full Story

Posted on August 19, 2008 12:23 PM

AT&T CallVantage One Step Closer to Oblivion

As I predicted on July 3rd, AT&T would soon be dropping its CallVantage broadband VoIP service since they dropped their affiliate marketing channel.Well, today I learned that AT&T is no longer accepting ANY new orders from ANY source - affiliate... Full Story

Posted on August 15, 2008 3:34 PM

How much data does fring consume?

Ever wonder how much data fring consumes when making a VoIP call or even when idle? Personally, I really like fring which I like to call "the Swiss army knife of mobile VoIP and IM", since it works with Skype,... Full Story

Posted on August 5, 2008 11:15 AM

Well there goes VoIP's 5 nines (99.999) of reliability!

Check out this alert on the University of Buffalo's website:UBIT AlertCampus Wide Services ImpactedVoIP System MaintenanceEffective: 8/6/2008 Expires: 8/6/2008 Posted: 2008-08-04On Wednesday, 8/6, between 6:00 - 7:00 AM system maintenance will be performed on the VoIP server infrastructure. Technical staff... Full Story

Posted on August 4, 2008 3:31 PM

Using Asterisk to Scam Credit Cards

Received a news tip that fraudsters are using Asterisk as a "collection tool" for their credit card scam. While that's nothing new by itself, since there are plenty of scammers leveraging Asterisk, I found it fascinating to be able to... Full Story

Posted on August 4, 2008 12:06 PM

The IP-PBX Energy Wars...

So today I get a new report from the Tolly Group stating that the ShoreTel Unified Communications system is significantly more energy efficient than the Cisco Unified Communications Manager. ShoreTel apparently topped Cisco in using less energy to drive VoIP... Full Story

Posted on August 4, 2008 12:00 AM

Skype 4.0.0.155 Beta 1 for Windows

Skype just released a new beta of 4.0.called Skype 4.0.0.155 Beta 1 for Windows. Just remember there are some caveats to using Skype 4.0 beta. Read here for more.Here's what's new / fixes:30.07.2008 Skype 4.0.0.155 Beta 1 for Windowschange: Firefox... Full Story

Posted on July 31, 2008 11:53 AM

Level 3 & Packet8 major outage

BREAKING!A source is telling me that Level 3 Communications and Packet 8 are having a system-wide network outage for the last 30 minutes. Level 3 is a huge provider of VoIP termination and I believe Packet8 uses their network for... Full Story

Posted on July 31, 2008 11:37 AM

3CX Free SIP Softphone

3CX has announced the release of a totally free new VoIP softphone called 3CX VoIP Phone that allows users to make and receive calls from their computer using SIP-based VoIP providers or SIP-based IP-PBXs. This free SIP softphone client isn't... Full Story

Posted on July 31, 2008 9:44 AM

Astricon, Win $100, and Party Hardy at ITEXPO

Came across DIDx (DIDXchange) CEO Suzanne Bowen's blog today, where she mentions that DIDXchange is sponsoring the Code Zone Reception on Tues PM Sept 23 at Astricon and also "giving a lightning talk with some of you on DIDX and... Full Story

Posted on July 29, 2008 11:00 AM

sipgate vs. T-Mobile Round II

Thilo Salmon of sipgate, makers of a SIP-based client that works on the Apple iPhone, wrote me today regarding sipgate vs. T-Mobile Round II, which was soundly won today by sipgate after a German court issued a preliminary injunction... Full Story

Posted on July 28, 2008 4:20 PM

CIA Offers VoIP Service?

Apparently the CIA wants to get into the VoIP biz. Oh wait, not that CIA, this CIA. Basically it's cia.gov vs. cia.com. Relatedly, fbi.com (not fbi.gov) is a blank page - cybersquatter? Anyway, Cybersurf Internet Access (CIA) is a trade... Full Story

Posted on July 28, 2008 11:03 AM

College student could get 5 years for Hacking VoIP system & changing grades

We all thought it was pretty cool when Matthew Broderick changed his high school grades in War Games, right? Harmless prank after all and even if he got caught, the worst he'd have to suffer is a few nights... Full Story

Posted on July 28, 2008 10:15 AM

VonagePro Launches

Vonage today launched their VonagePro service, their premium service offering that features a brand new softphone with single phone number identity, built-in contacts support, custom ringtones, and more. Mary Grikas, Executive Director of Device Development for Vonage about the launch... Full Story

Posted on July 28, 2008 9:00 AM

FCC to punish Comcast over Internet blocking

Comcast is about to be punished for messing with its customers Internet traffic, including messing with P2P traffic and reportedly even VoIP traffic. Apparently, Comcast making nice nice with Vonage wasn't enough to appease the FCC. This news wire reports... Full Story

Posted on July 26, 2008 10:11 PM

Skype Backdoor?

According to The Register, "Off the cuff remarks by Austrian government officials suggest that Skype conversations might be intercepted" via a backdoor or through the encryption keys. The comments were made at a recent meeting on lawful interception between ISPs... Full Story

Posted on July 25, 2008 4:07 PM

Vonage to replace CEO Jeffrey Citron

The future of Vonage is certainly looking brighter. Vonage recently settled patent disputes, including one with Verizon. This week they secured a $215 million financing deal this week from Silver Point Finance LLC. Now, according to The Wall Street... Full Story

Posted on July 25, 2008 12:25 PM

VoIP Warehouse - contact us by email - the irony

Check out this snapshot of the contact us page on VoIP Warehouse Australia. Let's see, you sell VoIP equipment but the FASTEST and most efficient method of reaching you is via email. Oh, the irony... ... Full Story

Posted on July 25, 2008 8:42 AM

Run VoIP in your House - get arrested

Apparently, in Bangladesh if you try and resell VoIP services out of your house, you're apt to get raided. Hope what happened to American Eliadah "Lia" McCord (forced to smuggle drugs, caught by Bangladesh airport security, gets 30-year sentence, but... Full Story

Posted on July 24, 2008 3:59 PM