In this era of file sharing and remote access, companies like Apple have been working overtime to get ahead of the competition, putting the functionality of a desktop onto a phone. Now with the release of the App Store, this vision is even closer to reality than ever before: now we have iPhone VoIP apps,Continue Reading
Sick of being hit hard in the pocket just for chatting with your friends or family? Feeling the pinch after spending a few too many hours chatting on your mobile? Then one of these internet phones are for you. Most of these internet phones allow you to make calls from your computer to other computers,Continue Reading
Digium, the primary developer of the open source Asterisk IP PBX, have announced a new ‘software appliance’ called AsteriskNow. The new application has been developed so that users can have an Asterisk PBX installed, configured and running within 30 minutes. AsteriskNow has been developed off the recently launched 1.4.0 release and features a Digium-designed userContinue Reading
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 withContinue Reading
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 toContinue Reading