Jajah, one of the most intriguing and innovative upstarts in the VoIP scene introduced a telephony protocol that eliminates the process of needing to download and install software on your computer to enable you to make calls. Unlike Skype and … Continue reading
Voiceroute showed off its Druid Live a new version of the Druid Telephony Platform during last week’s TMC ITEXPO West 2007. Voiceroute claims that with DRUID Live, DRUID is now not just the best GUI for Asterisk in the market, … Continue reading
Safari.java.net announced the availability of the second edition of the widely popular and respected book “Asterisk: The Future of Telephonyâ€. This bestselling book has proven to be an excellent resource and guide for building and deploying phone systems with the … Continue reading
With the recent acquisition of Sokol and Associates, the firm that originally produced the AstriCon open source conference, we can only expect great things in the upcoming Astricon 2007 conference. From the Official Asterisk Announcements: “AstriCon’s mission is to expand … Continue reading
Here’s another player offering a downloadable mobile VoIP-enabling software application. EQO Communications (pronounced “echo”), a provider of mobile Internet phone services, announced its new EQO Mobile version. EQO was originally designed to add Skype functionality to mobile phones, however EQO … Continue reading
Here’s one of the better Asterisk-related hacks I’ve seen lately (though it’s nothing really new). The Linksys WRT54G series is, after all, flash-able, and it’s mostly Linux-based (saved for some versions that use another firmware). So this essentially means you … Continue reading
VoIP is getting more popular with business and home users. But while business users have the funds and manpower to set up and maintain their own gateways and VoIP equipment (such as with self-installed Asterisk, or an enterprise package like … Continue reading
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 that many found interesting. In fact, word about an Apple … Continue reading
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 both parties. This issue seems to affect VoIP users more … Continue reading
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 a big issue, since you would know the time zone … Continue reading