Asterisk, the widely used open source IB PBX, have released version 1.4.0. This new release is the first in the 1.4 branch of development.
New features included in Asterisk 1.4.0 include a new version of AEL (Asterisk Extension Language), IMAP voicemail storage, HTML manager, T.38 Fax over IP passthrough support, RTP jitterbuffer and integration with [...]
Last week, I pointed at Moshe Yudkowsky’s brililant discussion of disposable phone numbers (DPN). He’s put his DPN source code up at Sourceforge and added a bit of discussion of what you need to use the demo. For now, only Windows XP is supported, but Linux is coming. And apparently Voxeo gives developers access to [...]
VoWiFi, or VoIP over Wi-Fi, is expected to be a growing niche of IP telephony, what with all the dual-mode cell phones and Wi-Fi phones starting to peek out from under wraps, and the numerous municipal Wi-Fi projects all over the world. VoIP call quality is such an important issue these days, and will be [...]
Andrew Garcia at eWeek writes that open source telephony has created “a fertile breeding ground for new solutions built from the ground up for small businesses.” Yet SMBs are lagging behind in VoIP adoption, not for lack of interest but because they don’t know what to use.
If this is you, you might consider Digium’s Asterisk [...]
Moshe Yudkowsky has a briliant idea regarding email addresses that extends to phone numbers: disposability. I haven’t quite gone as far as he has with email addresses, but I’ve been sketching out a “virtual email” system that could accomplish the same thing, and be used by anyone on any domain, via my web service. The [...]