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Fonality Serves up 1 Billion Cloud VoIP Calls?
Today, Fonality announced it has served up its 1 billionth cloud call on their hosted VoIP platform called UNBOUND. UNBOUND is Fonality’s fully hosted cloud phone system and VoIP service solution and starts at $24.99/mo. Of course, Fonality also offers fully premise-based IP-PBX solutions as well. I like Fonality and the Fonality team, including Chris... »
Guide: VoIP on-the-cheap with Asterisk
Ars Technica offers a detailed guide to VoIP using Asterisk. It starts with a primer on what VoIP is all about and then digs down into how to get things done with Asterisk. Article Related Topics: Asterisk, business, cheap, VoIP »
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 free in this world. If you download and install Asterisk yourself for your company... »
Tweet2Dial Links Twitter, Google Voice
Linking the most popular short messaging system to the hottest VoIP application on the Web, a company called Nerd Vittles has introduced Tweet2Dial, an application written for use with Asterisk that allows users to initiate free Google Voice calls via a Twitter account. Tweet2Dial “lets you use Twitter or your …(238 words) Related Topics: application,... »
Tweet2DIal Makes Google Voice Twitter Friendly for Asterisk Users
The folks at Nerd Vittles have gotten uber geeky, and have fallen in love with how to make a marriage between Twitter and Google Voice. But unless you have an Asterisk server, you won't need to read just how they managed to make Twitter a calling engine that fires up Google Voice to call you... »
StarTech KVM Console to USB 2.0 Portable Laptop Adapter Review
If you are an IT or network manager you know how frustrating it can be to try and troubleshoot a rackmounted server that doesn’t have a monitor or keyboard hooked up to it. After all, LCD rackmount console can be pretty expensive. Often referred to as “headless servers”, in many cases you... »
‘VoIP’ Named Industry of the Decade
According to IBISWorld, VoIP was named “Industry Of The Decade” besting even the search engine industry? Surely, you jest. You mean to tell me the VoIP industry beat Google’s, Yahoo’s, and MSN’s (now Bing’s) billions?... »
Dialogic, Digium team on media gateway interoperability
Dialogic, a provider of media gateways that provide PBX integration between applications on SIP-based media servers and the installed base of TDM and hybrid IP-PBX systems, has just signed an interoperability partnership with Digium. With this interoperability partnership, Dialogic’s 1000 Media Gateway Series and the Dialogic 2000 Media Gateway Series are now certified for compatibility... »
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 since this is a very innovative product. It is pretty cool to have... »
Cool Skype for SIP Upgrades, Enhanced Inbound Routing and more
Some important news for Skype for SIP beta “open” users I thought I’d share. Just last week Skype announced going from closed “beta” to “open” to the public, and now today they’re adding some cool new Skype for SIP features. Once the upgrades are complete there will be cool new features, such as direct inward... »
International contact center provider adds Asterisk to the mix
Altitude Software has announced that it will be using Digium’s Asterisk SIP telephony offerings for its vBox communications platform. Altitude Software is an independent contact center vendor with the Altitude Unified Customer Interaction (Altitude uCI) product line serving around 800 customers of all sizes in about 60 countries worldwide. By partnering with Digium, the Altitude... »
First It Was Localphone.com and Now We See Super-Phone
It looks like with Google's buying of Gizmo that the world of SIP origination and termination via anyone who has the ability to be a SIP or Asterisk based origination and termination player will rise to the surface. Earlier this week we saw the arrival of Localphone.com and now it's Super-Phone.com which is offering voice... »
Rebtel Adds Skype Calling
Luca has an article today explaining how Rebtel just added Skype support. One capability this allows is for calls to your Rebtel phone number to be sent to your Skype username. In that scenario Rebtel takes the place of SkypeIn. You can also initiate outbound Skype calls to your Skype contacts using Rebtel’s contact... »
D2 Technologies, Beceem & ECS Extend VoIP over WiMAX to Android Smartphones and MIDs
Interesting news from D2 Technologies I thought I’d share. They are announcing a partnership with Beceem and ECS to offer a turnkey solution for developing and delivering VoIP over WiMAX smartphones to market running the Android platform. Full news release after the jump… Continue reading D2 Technologies, Beceem & ECS Extend VoIP over WiMAX to Android... »
Bolo, Another VoIP Player, Enters Unlimited Global Calling Arena
Bolo from bolostore.com contacted me about their VoIP offering. Bolo explained, “We offer unlimited global calling for $38/month. That is unlimited calling to landlines and cellphones around the world. That is $38.00. We do not add fees and taxes.” Bolo added, “We have set up a store on Amazon (www.BoloStore.com) and we are signing... »
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 exhibit showcase since all 16 spaces originally allocated had been sold. There are... »
Maine gets $45,000 from Vonage Settlement
According to Maine’s attorney general, the state will get a small chunk from the $3 million multistate settlement with Vonage that was announced last week. Thirty one other states were part of the $3 million settlement due to customer complaints over three main issues: the difficulty of canceling service; a requirement to have a high-speed... »
VoIP in Google ChromeOS
Google released their ChromeOS operating system yesterday. So naturally, as a VoIP fan I was curious if ChromeOS could run VoIP. Since Google’s ChromeOS has a Flash Player built-in, in theory it can run a Flash-based VoIP client. The first VoIP solution that came to mind was Flaphone (formerly Flashphone), a Flash-based VoIP app... »
MindTouch Cloud Launches into Cloud Collaboration
MindTouch just launched their popular open source Sharepoint-like software into the collaboration cloud. Called MindTouch Cloud, this hosted SAAS offering will put them in direct competition of the likes of Google Apps, Google Wave, Zoho, and others. MindTouch will deliver their open source collaboration applications in the cloud for a monthly fee that starts... »
Citrix Adds Toll-Free Option to GoToMeeting
Citrix Online today announced they have added integrated Toll-Free audio to GoToMeeting Corporate and GoToWebinar. With this addition, meeting participants now have several audio options to choose from, including integrated toll-free, a toll-based number, or VoIP for audio over the Internet. Each participant in the same online meeting can select their own audio option. Customers... »
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 in Miami, Florida. Windham’s presentation, which takes place Thursday, Jan. 21 9:45 a.m. EST,... »
Rhino Debuts Ceros Desktop Telephony Appliance
I can still remember the first conversation I ever had with a manufacturer about “appliances.” I’m not talking about my Maytag. I’m talking about the product that today is about as pervasive in the open source telephony space as voice itself. The year was 2004 and I was fresh off a brow-beating from a relative who... »
eOn Communications launches Linux-based eConn IP-PBX
eOn Communications used this week’s VoiceCon show to debut eConn, an IP-PBX server-based IP communications platform. eConn IP-PBX uses commercial off-the-shelf hardware and the Linux operating system with support for SIP VoIP and TDM voice. The system offers all the services eOn’s Millennium Converged Communications Platform provides and works with eOn’s eNterprise 7000 Series IP Telephones, audio conferencing units, analog sets... »
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 Skype for Asterisk and Ibook to make Skype calls from within a browser-based Google... »
Skype Battle Nears End
Gigaom reports that there is a good chance that a resolution of the lawsuit between the Skype founders Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis and eBay’s Skype could be announced as soon as this week. According to Gigaom, a group of private equity investors led by Silver Lake Partners are close to settling their legal dispute... »
Skype Announces Open Source – Sort of…
Slashdot was abuzz with the news that Skype was going open source. Not so fast my friend. Have you not forgotten Skype founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis who now run JoltId are in a legal fight with Skype? Surely Skype wouldn’t be so bold as to release their P2P ’secret sauce’ while still in... »
Blabbelon Opens a New (VoIP) World for Gamers
Blabbelon, the cross-platform web-based VoIP app designed for video gaming, which I tested yesterday and posted a review today released an official statement about their new offering. I thought I’d share it since it has some good info to compliment my review posted this morning: Stop Venting: Blabbelon Opens a New World for Gamers... »
Ribbit Mobile Launches
Ribbit today announced the release of Ribbit Mobile, a free communication suite designed for mobile professionals who need to be able to easily manage all of their phone numbers, communication devices, and how & when they are contacted. Ribbit Mobile is a cloud-based service that lets you manage calls, messages and phones. It’s... »
Ring2Skype Enables Free PSTN-to-Skype calls with Local Numbers
Ring2Skype, a new startup, brings yet another way to have free calling by leveraging both Skype and the PSTN. Ring2Skype allows you to have a free local number (in NYC, London, Madrid, etc.), forwarded to your Skype (wherever you are) — once again for FREE. I should point out that Skype charges you for a... »
Halloween in VoIP Land
Check out Fonality’s “corporate culture” in this pic below. Apparently, things must be financially good in Fonality-land, since they’re pretty relaxed enough that the co-founders (Chris and Samy) wore these outfits to the office for Halloween. Fonality co-founders Chris Lyman (Pink Ape) and Samy Kamchar (Bruno) While we’re on the topic of... »