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Will Android Pay for Google’s Moves in China?
British scribe Paul Carr is not one to mince words. For him, Google’s newfound morality around censorship and China is too little, too late. Four years too late, to be precise. And I agree with him — up to a point. Morality has to be absolute; it cannot be used as a tool of... »
Google’s Nexus One won’t shake Apple’s iPhone to the core… yet
Last Tuesday, Google finally confirmed it was entering the hardware market by launching its own mobile phone handset. The Nexus One is made to Google’s specifications by HTC, a Taiwanese firm, and runs the latest version of Google’s Android software, an open source operating system already running on a number of handsets, including ones... »
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... »
Google unveils Nexus One phone
Google has unveiled an own-brand smartphone called the Nexus One. The wraps were taken off the handset at an invitation-only event held at Google’s Mountain View HQ. The Nexus One is a slim, touchscreen phone built in partnership with Taiwanese manufacturer HTC and runs Google’s Android operating system. To read this BBC News report in full, see: news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8442205.stm Also... »
Charges dropped in Broadcom stock-option backdating case
Charges of fraud and conspiracy in the Broadcom stock-option backdating case have been dropped against two company executives. Due to misconduct on the side of the prosecution, the U.S. District Court threw out the charges. In the same breath the Security and Exchange Commission’s civil case was also thown out against the four original... »
Voxeo teams with Remego for contact centers in APAC
Florida-based VoIP platform provider Voxeo is teaming with Remego, a Sigapore-based VoIP provider to provide open source contact center services in the Asia Pacific region. Using Voxeo’s open technology platform in Interactive Voice Response (IVR), instant messaging, SIP, VoiceXML, CCXML and mobile web for the creation and management of unified communications and unified self-service applications,... »
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... »
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... »
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... »
Broadcom offers open source HD Voice
Broadcom announced that it will offer BroadVoice codecs open source in order to lower the price of HD voice and encourage the technology’s growth. The BroadVoice codecs come in two varieties: BroadVoice32 and BroadVoice16 for wideband and narrowband telephony respectively. The company is releasing the C source code under the LGPL license from the Free... »
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... »
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... »
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... »
Skype For Linux Going (Almost) Open Source
Digg and Slashdot were abuzz earlier this morning with the news that Skype was going to go open source. The buzz was based on a post on a French blog by Olivier Faurax. The news is true and false at the same time. “It is our intention to make Skype for Linux an open... »
Guide: Open source VoIP resources
Giga OM and BusinessWeek have compiled a guide to various open source VoIP applications. Read Article Related Topics: application, business, open source, VAR, VoIP »
Security firm demoed hacking and eavesdropping on IPhone mobile VoIP calls
Over the weekend, Sipera Systems demonstrated how easy it was to eavesdrop and record VoIP calls made over an unsecured WiFi network on the iPhone. Using open source software called UCSniff, the security team hacked into the iPhone’s VoIP calls proving that without security software, mobile VoIP calls might not be ready for business... »
Sangoma releases B601 series connectivity card
There’s nothing sexy about PSTN connectivity cards. But that’s not stopping the folks at Sangoma from making them a little more attractive for do-it-yourself and professional open source PBX systems builders. Announced last week at Astricon, Sangoma’s new B601 series cards are based off the Sangoma B600 series. The B601 series cards feature one T1/E1/J1... »
Why The Gizmo Sale to Skype Rumor is Good For The Industry
I've had a day to reflect on the rumor of Skype buying Gizmo (actually they would be buying all of Sipphone) and why it's more than just good for the VoIP industry. For starters, just the fact that Skype is thinking of SIP as the alternative to JoltID is a good sign. It brings all... »
Factual Sees Open Data As Its Future
First there was open source. And now, here comes open data. Or that’s what Gil Elbaz thinks. He’s returning to the startup arena with a new Los Angeles-based company called Factual, which is building its business around the concept of open data. It wants to help build open databases that will run the... »
Voice 3.0: The Era Of API Calling
I just learned that Cloudvox is launching this week and it got me thinking. Cloudvox is one of the companies like client Voxygen, Voxeo, Twilio and also client ifByPhone and Ribbit which has grasped the power of voice APIs and made them available to just about everyone. What does all this mean? Well for starters, voice API's... »
Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 XMPP Gateway Launches
Microsoft today just released the Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 XMPP Gateway, which is available at no cost. That’s right, it’s free and is immediately downloadable. The XMPP gateway allows basic presence sharing and instant messaging (IM) with Cisco Jabber and Google Talk. OCS users can now instant message Cisco Jabber and... »
Factual Sees Open Data As its Future
First there was open source. And here comes open data. Or that’s what Gil Elbaz thinks. He is returning to the start-up arena with a new Los Angeles-based start-up called Factual, that is building its business around the concept of open data. The company wants to help build open databases that will cover... »
SIPfoundry integrates with Skype for SIP
Open source telephony community SIPfoundry has announced its sipXecs product is interoperable with Skype for SIP, and the companies are testing the product in a beta program. The Skype for SIP program promises to lower the cost of telephony because businesses can direct outbound calls through the sipXecs client using Skype credits. Skype said integrating... »
AstriCon Asterisk Conference Soon
After ITEXPO’s resounding success in Los Angeles (over 6,000 attendees), we can definitively say VoIP hasn’t been as badly affected as other industry sectors within the U.S. economy. In just about 3 weeks, we can confirm this is true with the big AstriCon event held at the Renaissance Glendale Hotel & Spa in ... »
VoIP phone market heating up
It looks like this summer is shaping up to be a hot one for VoIP phone manufacturers. Thanks to the rapid adoption of standards based open source and open source based VoIP systems, the emergence of HD Voice and the rebounding of prosumer spending, a plethora of manufacturers will have a new VoIP phone hitting... »
Vodafone launches new UK internet service
Vodafone announced a new Internet service on Thursday, offering access to a host of integrated social networks and applications, in its fight to grow data revenues and compete with smartphones like the iPhone. Vodafone, the world’s largest mobile phone operator by revenue, said its new Vodafone 360 service would use the open source Limo operating... »
Android: Potentially the Greatest Gaming Platform
Bruce Everiss submits:</strong< With all this talk of Android here and elsewhere on the web, it is perhaps worth looking at what it is. Especially as it has the potential to very rapidly become one of the biggest gaming platforms. Android is a Linux based operating system for smart phones championed by Google (GOOG). It is... »