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Archive for February, 2007

Cisco Lets Apple Use “iPhone” Name

Monday, February 26th, 2007 Posted in VOIP | No Comments »

When Apple's Steve Jobs announced the iPhone during the Macworld Expo last January, this shocked the whole tech community. It wasn't so much the announcement of an Apple mobile phone ... Read more..

Fonality Announces PBXtra Call Center Edition

Wednesday, February 21st, 2007 Posted in Asterisk | No Comments »

Fonality has announced its latest enterprise-grade release, PBXtra Call Center Edition. TNC.net also has an interview with Fonality's CEO. Read more..

SPIT: Spam Over Internet Telephony

Tuesday, February 20th, 2007 Posted in Asterisk | No Comments »

I came across an interesting article on voip-news.com. It's about this new threat and scourge to the community called spam over Internet telephony (or SPIT for short). If SPAM is ... Read more..

Fonality Secures $7 Million Investment From Intel

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007 Posted in Asterisk, Trixbox | No Comments »

Fonality, creator of the Asterisk-bsed trixbox telephony system and the business-oriented PBXtra, has recently secured $7 million in funding from Intel's investment arm, Intel Capital. Read more..

Causes of Echo in Asterisk (and Telephony in General)

Tuesday, February 13th, 2007 Posted in Asterisk | No Comments »

In telephony, the phenomenon known as "echo" happens when a person hears what he has just said a few milliseconds after speaking. This can be experienced by either one or ... Read more..

Time Zone Processing with Asterisk

Monday, February 12th, 2007 Posted in Asterisk | No Comments »

Calling people across time zones might prove to be inconveniencing to the receiving party, especially if it's late at night or very early in the morning. Before, this wasn't such ... Read more..

Fonality Announces trixbox Certification Program

Wednesday, February 7th, 2007 Posted in Asterisk, Trixbox | No Comments »

Fonality, creator of the popular trixbox Asterisk-based telephony system, has announced that it will run Fonality trixbox Open Communications Certification workshops for professionals involved in the use and integration of ... Read more..

Free UK Inbound Numbers From CallUK

Tuesday, February 6th, 2007 Posted in Asterisk, SIP | No Comments »

Last time, I wrote about this free service that lets you assign a free US number (with Washington area code) to your Asterisk box via SIP. This time, here's a ... Read more..

Free US Inbound Numbers from IPKall

Thursday, February 1st, 2007 Posted in Asterisk, SIP | 3 Comments »

Free inbound DID (direct international dialling) numbers can be a very cheap way to assign incoming numbers to your Asterisk PBX. For instance, your company or office can be located ... Read more..