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Skype for Windows Phone 8 Gets HD First & More Feature Love
Today, Skype released an update for the Skype for Windows Phone 8 Preview, version 2.4, which for the first time ever adds HD video calling to a mobile version of Skype. This version leverages the hardware acceleration capability of Windows...
Cisco Strengthens Products For Midmarket
Cisco today announced a series of news surrounding their midmarket product line and their partners that sell Cisco products in this space. A quick overview is that they announced some enhancements to Cisco Business Edition 6000, their midmarket collaboration platform,...
Asterisk 1-2-3 Workshop Well-Attended at ITEXPO
It always pleasantly surprises me how well-attended the Asterisk 1-2-3 Workshops are at past ITEXPOs and now the current one, especially considering today is a "pre-conference" day with no exhibit hall open today. Tomorrow is when the "big" day is...
Facebook Enables Free VoIP Calls for U.S. iOS Messenger Users
Facebook launched free VoIP calling for U.S. Facebook iOS Messenger app users. Here's the problem though. Almost no one uses the Facebook Messenger app - they use the main Facebook iOS app. Why not bundle these these two together?...
2013 - The Year of WebRTC
WebRTC has been making great strides of late. A few companies using worth checking out are bistri, Plivo, and twelephone. I'm in the process of testing bistri and twelephone, but I did actual use Plivo's proof-of-concept WebRTC offering, which I'll...
Facebook Testing Free VoIP calling in Messenger app
Well, well, well - just days after my "Skype vs. Facebook - How WebRTC Will Turn Friends into Enemies" post where I said Facebook could crush Skype if they chose to get into VoIP, Facebook released a new version of...
Skype vs. Facebook - How WebRTC Will Turn Friends into Enemies
Facebook and Skype currently enjoy a friendly relationship that all started back in 2011 when Facebook collaborated with Skype to integrate these two popular social networks. They then deepened their partnership by offering direct Facebook video calling. But I always...
Level 3 Layoff Rumors
I received some information from a source claiming to work for Level 3 Communications. He stated, "They are not doing well. Just laid off 4% of the workforce. 14% planned in January."File this under pure speculation / rumor at this...
Google WebRTC Workshop at WebRTC Conference Exceeds Expectations
TMC was at the forefront of covering VoIP and educating the industry though Internet Telephony Magazine (launched in 1997) and TMCnet.com. So I am excited to announced that my company TMC, along with Systemwide Media and PKE Consulting has announced...
Fraunhofer Full-HD Voice - HD Voice on Steroids?
I was very familiar with Fraunhofer, since they are renowned for their MP3 encoder and in fact helped pioneer MP3 technology. A German company, Fraunhofer continues to do research to come up with the best sounding audio at the lowest...
Localphone.com Offering Free Calls To Taiwan
Localphone.com is rewarding customers with unlimited free calls to Taiwan to Taiwan for a week. The free offer applies to calls made to landline numbers in Taiwan and is available to all Localphone customers from 12pm GMT 8th November until...
Mikogo HTML5 Desktop Sharing App Adds VoIP
Mikogo today released its all-in-one web conferencing solution, now with VoIP added to its desktop sharing solution. VoIP for voice conferencing is now provided directly within the user interface of the Mikogo desktop sharing solution.The new software is a beta...
Asterisk 11 - What's New! [VIDEO]
At AstriCon we finally heard about the new features in Asterisk 11. One of the most exciting features is WebRTC, which I wrote about earlier, including videos. On the last day of AstriCon, four members of the Asterisk team got...
WebRTC Demo Plus WebRTC Asterisk Integration
At AstriCon at sat in a jam-packed session on WebRTC, which featured Digium's Joshua Colp and Voxeo Labs / Tropo's Tim Panton. The talk explained how WebRTC is going to change the communications landscape, but more than that they did...
SugarCRM's Clint Oram's AstriCon Keynote [VIDEO]
This is SugarCRM's Clint Oram's AstriCon keynote taken holding my iPhone 4S up in the air. It's not the full keynote but it is 6 minutes long - hey I can only hold my arm up for so long! However,...
Mark Spencer AsteriCon 2012 Keynote! [VIDEO]
Yesterday, I posted a bunch of AstriCon photos, including panoramic photos and even a 360 degree panoramic. Well today I've got some video for ya! Here's Mark Spencer, Founder of Asterisk, giving the opening keynote address at AstriCon 2012 in...
AstriCon 2012 Exhibit Floor Panoramic Photos
Though I would share some AstriCon 2012 exhibit floor photos. The Digium booth was pretty mobbed the entire evening. I was able to meet with Vitelity's Kerry Garrison, Digium's Leslie Conway and Mark Amick, Schmooze Communications and too many other...
AstriCon 2012 360 Degree Panoramic
I know many of you Asterisk fans couldn't make AstriCon here in Atlanta, Georgia, so I've got the next best thing for you to be here virtually - a 360 degree panoramic of a packed Asterisk 123 session using Microsoft...
Digium's Steve Sokol Explains the Various Digium IP Phone Models
Digium's Steve Sokol explains all the various Digium iPhone models, specifications, features, pricing, etc. Here's a couple photos from his session: ...
Shaun Ruffell Leads Intro to Asterisk Development Session
Digium's Shaun Ruffell, Linux Kernel Developer, is now answering some pretty technical questions. ...
Packed AstriCon Session on 'Intro to Asterisk Development'
This panoramic photo of this session speaks for itself. ...
Digium's Billy Chia Gives Overview of Asterisk
Digium's Shaun Ruffell Billy Chia gives excellent overview of Asterisk including some technical analysis such as channel drivers and dynamically loaded modules. He gave one example of the dynamically loaded Cisco SCCP modules. He even showed a SSH session to...
AstriCon 2012 Atlanta Begins!
It's 7:30am bright and early and I'm having a continental breakfast with my fellow Asterisk fans, including developers, end users, and vendors. Traffic in the two pics below is a bit light but developers don't need healthy fruit for breakfast....
Skype for Windows 8 Launches Simultaneously with Windows 8 & Microsoft Surface
I predicted back in August, "I wouldn't be surprised though if this [Skype for Windows 8] simultaneously launches the same day as the Windows 8 Surface tablet - it certainly would be one of the first apps I'd try out...
ringDNA iPad Softphone Integrates with Salesforce.com
ringDNA offers an interesting iPad softphone app that integrates with CRM, namely Salesforce.com. Very similar in some respects to Hookflash run by Erik Lagerway. They pitched this product during StartupCamp6 at ITEXPO. It's a pretty nifty product due to its...
