It's hard to believe that only a couple of years ago, some industry insiders were debating whether VoIP was dead. In some ways, the pessimists had a point: There hadn't been anything new and exciting in IP communications for a long while. Sure, there were new ways to make VoIP calls using the iPhone and other mobile devices. But for the most part, VoIP in 2010 was pretty much what it had been in 2004. Fortunately, the industry sprang back to life in a big way in 2011. New hardware set … [Read more...]
Discouraged by Voxalot’s Planned Shutdown? PBXes Can Help
November 10, 2011 By
The announced shutdown at year's end of the popular Voxalot SIP account aggregation service due to "rising costs of operation" has left many VoIP enthusiasts searching for an alternative. Though finding a direct replacement for the easy-to-use Voxalot is difficult, one service, PBXes.com, comes very close. Both Voxalot and PBXes.com allow advanced VoIP users to combine separate accounts on a virtual server (or, in the currently popular vernacular, the "cloud") so that user-authored dial … [Read more...]
OBi Now Talks to 200 Million Google Users
March 23, 2011 By
Obihai Technology's OBi110, the $50 analog telephone adaptor released late last year that has become much sought after and hard to find after it added free outgoing and incoming Google Voice call support, has gotten a whole lot more powerful. Firmware version 1.2 for the device, released today and available for free, allows a user to call and receive calls from any Google Chat user for free directly on a handheld phone attached to an OBi. There are an estimated 200 million active users … [Read more...]
Asterisk Makes Enterprise Inroads With Big Blue
October 15, 2009 By
Digium and IBM announced a new partnership at Astricon Thursday that highlights both the Asterisk company's increasing attention from the enterprise telecommunications sector as well as Big Blue's growing appetite for SMB market share. The two companies announced the creation of an Asterisk-based phone system available now for the IBM Smart Cube platform. Smart Cube is a product of the company’s Smart Business initiative for small to medium-sized businesses, a pre-integrated solution … [Read more...]
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