Archive for April, 2008
Well, it certainly didn’t take long for someone to leverage AOL’s Open Voice APIs featuring full SIP support. TringMe is apparently the ‘first’ out of the gate announcing support to millions of AIM call-out users to make calls directly from TringMe. AIM users can use TringPhone - TringMe’s fully web-based SIP phone to make calls […]
April 30th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments
While researching for my VoIP call screening post earlier today, I came across a patent for "call screening". Curious, I decided to check it out the filed patent and found it was filed by Nortel Networks in July 2004. Interestingly, the patent application agrees with me that hosted voicemail needs call screening and goes as […]
April 30th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments
Robert Traphan, a college friend of mine stayed at my house last night and we were talking about the various VoIP products and services. Robert is a former SunRocket customer until the SunRocket implosion. Robert was a huge fan of SunRocket over both Packet8 and Vonage. One of his favorite features was SunRocket Signature Message […]
April 30th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments
I always find it fascinating to read about companies that take standard Skype and add additional features that make it a great solution for various business processes beyond just VoIP. One such company is OnState, the creator of OnState ACD for Skype, which adds ACD & call center functionality to Skype. They recently announced support […]
April 30th, 2008 | Posted in 47577 | No Comments
Codeguys.rpc1.org is a popular website run by C0deKing and Kanalratte that offers crossflashing and overclocking of your DVD±RW drives using "hacked" firmware for your DVD burner. Often the hacked firmware enables missing features such as overclocking the speed of the DVD burn and more importantly, setting the ‘book type’ permanently to "DVD-ROM". (more on that […]
April 29th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments
Skype 3.8 for Windows was just released with the main improvements in the audio engine. Skype claims the new version significantly reduced background noise, less delay, fewer call drops, and fewer cut-outs, especially when both sides are using Skype 3.8 for Windows. According to a Skype spokeperson, another improvement is if you change your headset, […]
April 29th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments
Comments: I have followed Jajah for some time and I am very excited to hear this partnership with Yahoo!. I have talked to some of the staff and they all seem to be a really quality team and on the ball about VoIP technology. Grats
JAJAH has been selected by Yahoo! as the outsource partner for […]
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Rev B of Astfin’s BRI (ISDN) Appliance has just arrived. The BR4 appliance (or BRI Appliance) is an open hardware BRI Asterisk Appliance running Astfin. I’ve written about this Asterisk-based appliance before. The Astfin.org blog author writes how he used the popular USB jtag (ICEbear) to connect to the new BRI Appliance rev B board. […]
April 29th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments
Yep, that’s right… 10 million now for JAJAH. And in other news… JAJAH has also just announced that they have opened their platform to third parties with their new JAJAH Managed Services initiative. Yahoo! is the initiative’s first customer. More from Alec Saunders…
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April 29th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments
Today, AOL will launch Open Voice APIs to enable developers to integrate the AIM Call Out Service into softphones and SIP-enabled devices. According to AOL, the APIs will "provide third-party developers and VoIP device manufacturers with open standards protocols that will enable them to easily integrate the AIM Call Out service into softphones, as well […]
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