July 03, 2009

eBay’s fight with Skype founders may threaten the Skype IPO

eBAY Inc.’s dispute with the founders of its Skype Internet-phone division threatens to delay a Skype initial public offering (IPO) and lower the amount raised.

Skype, which lets users place calls online, told a London court in April that it may have to suspend the service if it can’t resolve the fight. Skype’s founders, who still own a piece of software used by Skype, have accused eBay of breaching a licensing deal. They’re threatening to yank the technology from Skype, disabling the world’s largest provider of international calls.


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Microsoft declines to commit to releasing Response Point 2.0 PBX, future uncertain

If you were wondering about the future of Microsoft's Response Point small business VoIP system, you can keep wondering. The system's future has been in doubt for months, and the company declined to clear up the confusion at a meeting with Voice over IP resellers this week.


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July 01, 2009

New Free Phone System / PBX RFP (Request for Proposal) Book Offer for IT Managers & Coordinators

 

Editor's Note:  I want to bring attention to a free book offer "Creating RFP's for IP Telephony Systems" that is being presented by VoiceIP Solutions.  The book covers the process that goes into creating a RFP when getting bids for a new phone system / PBX.  This is ideal for the IT Manager or Telecommunication System Director that has been tasked with getting competitive bids from various vendors.  If you use this book and it does come in handy for your PBX project, please send me a note and let me know.  Enjoy.

Here is what Amazon.com states the book covers:

· What are RFPs and RFQs
· Why use and RFP for IP Telephony Systems
· What are the Key RFP Objectives and Processes
· How to Identify Company Communication Requirements
· Who is involved in the Creation of an RFP
· The Typical Steps in Creating an RFP Document
· How to Issue and Manage RFPs
· Evaluating RFP Responses
· RFP Communication between Issuer and Responder
· Outline Template for a typical RFP 

 Goto the following link and fill out the information form and a book will be send out within 7-10 business days (While supplies last):

VoIP & IP PBX RFPs Book Offer - VoiceIP Solutions

 

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Digium releases TCE400B Voice Compression Card for Asterisk PBX

 
 
Digium, Inc., today released the TCE400B PCI Express card for use with voice applications based on the open source Asterisk telephony platform. The new card provides hardware-based voice compression and decompression (codec) capabilities to shift transcoding from software to hardware. Using the TCE400B in place of a software-only solution places fewer demands on servers and frees up Asterisk to more efficiently process calls and to provide functionality for phone systems such as call recording, conference calling and interactive voice response (IVR).


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Comcast to offer 4G wireless broadband service

 
 
The largest cable operator in the U.S. will launch the new service in Portland, Ore. And it will expand the service to other Comcast cities later in the year, including Atlanta, Chicago, and Philadelphia. Comcast invested in the new Clearwire in 2008, along with Google, Intel, Time Warner Cable, and Sprint Nextel, which gave Clearwire its 2.5GHz spectrum.


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June 19, 2009

Media5 SIP Softphone App Turns iPhone into IP-PBX Extension

 

Media5 has released a SIP client application that allows the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch to be used as a IP-PBX extension. The company says the full-featured softphone enables the Apple devices to be used to access the same phone services and features as if they were in the office.


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June 16, 2009

Three indicted for hacking 2,500 company phone systems (PBX)

The acting U.S. attorney in New Jersey unsealed indictments Friday for three people in the Philippines charged with hacking the private branch exchanges (PBX) of more than 2,500 companies for stealing pass codes they sold to call center operators in Italy.

Italian officials allege the sale of the pass codes helped finance terrorist activities, IDG News Service reported. On Friday, Italian officials arrested at least five people in raids on 10 call centers.


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Asterisk PBX 1.6.2.0-beta3 Now Available

The Asterisk Development Team is pleased to announce the third beta of Asterisk 1.6.2.0. Asterisk-1.6.2.0-beta3 is available for immediate download at
http://downloads.digium.com/pub/asterisk/

This is an incremental release of the 1.6.2.0 branch as the previous beta was released just over a month ago, and many issues have been resolved since then.  Included in this release are the following issues reported by the community:

 * Update spiral support in trunk and 1.6.x branches to match what is in 1.4
   (related to issue #13630).

 * Fix RFC2833 issues with DTMF getting duplicated and with duration wrapping
   over (issue #14815).

 * Fix a bug where the codecs of the called party leg were not properly sent
   back to the call leg when reinvited (issue #13569).

 * Fix broken attended transfers (issue #15183).

 * Add flags to chanspy audiohook so that audio stays in sync (issue #13745).

 * Resolve issues with choppy sound when using res_timing_pthread
   (issue #14412)

Additionally, an update to chan_iax2 related to issue AST-2009-001 is included
in this beta release. For more information, see:

http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/security/AST-2009-001.html


For a full list of changes in this beta, please see the ChangeLog:

http://svn.digium.com/svn/asterisk/tags/1.6.2.0-beta3/ChangeLog


You can get more information about the new features and various changes in
Asterisk 1.6.2.0 at:

http://svn.digium.com/svn/asterisk/tags/1.6.2.0-beta3/CHANGES


And if you're upgrading from previous versions of Asterisk see this file:

http://svn.digium.com/svn/asterisk/tags/1.6.2.0-beta3/UPGRADE.txt


Issues discovered in testing of this beta can be reported at
http://issues.asterisk.org

Thank you for your continued support of Asterisk!

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June 08, 2009

Digium and AMTELCO Announce Interoperability Partnership for E&M Interfacing Asterisk to Wireless Applications

Digium, Inc., the Asterisk Company, and AMTELCO, an innovator in call center communications systems and externally defined switching (XDS) boards, today announced an interoperability partnership that gives Asterisk developers new choices for E&M line and wireless interface solutions. Digium has certified the AMTELCO XDS 8-port E&M board for use with Asterisk telephony software.


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June 05, 2009

Asterisk PBX 1.2.33, Asterisk 1.4.25.1, Asterisk 1.6.0.10, and Asterisk 1.6.1.1 Released

The Asterisk Development Team has released Asterisk versions 1.2.33, 1.4.25.1, 1.6.0.10, and 1.6.1.1. The released versions are available at
http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/

This release fixes a REGAUTH loop related to security issue AST-2009-001.  Asterisk release 1.2.33 also addresses a small compile time error in chan_spy.

For more information about the security issue, please see:

http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/security/AST-2009-001.html

For a summary of the changes in this release, please see the release summary:

http://svn.asterisk.org/svn/asterisk/tags/1.2.33/asterisk-1.2.33-summary.txt
http://svn.asterisk.org/svn/asterisk/tags/1.4.25.1/asterisk-1.4.25.1-summary.txt
http://svn.asterisk.org/svn/asterisk/tags/1.6.0.10/asterisk-1.6.0.10-summary.txt
http://svn.asterisk.org/svn/asterisk/tags/1.6.1.1/asterisk-1.6.1.1-summary.txt

For a full list of changes in this release, please see the ChangeLog:

http://svn.asterisk.org/svn/asterisk/tags/1.2.33/ChangeLog
http://svn.asterisk.org/svn/asterisk/tags/1.4.25.1/ChangeLog
http://svn.asterisk.org/svn/asterisk/tags/1.6.0.10/ChangeLog
http://svn.asterisk.org/svn/asterisk/tags/1.6.1.1/ChangeLog

Thank you for your continued support of Asterisk!

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