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

6 hours 15 min ago
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... Dal http://www.asteriskvoipnews.com/

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

7 hours 59 sec ago
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... Dal http://www.asteriskvoipnews.com/

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

Wed, 07/01/2009 - 15:10
 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... Dal http://www.asteriskvoipnews.com/

Digium releases TCE400B Voice Compression Card for Asterisk PBX

Wed, 07/01/2009 - 14:35
  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.... Dal http://www.asteriskvoipnews.com/

Comcast to offer 4G wireless broadband service

Wed, 07/01/2009 - 14:16
  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... Dal http://www.asteriskvoipnews.com/

Media5 SIP Softphone App Turns iPhone into IP-PBX Extension

Fri, 06/19/2009 - 13:53
 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... Dal http://www.asteriskvoipnews.com/

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

Tue, 06/16/2009 - 12:46
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... Dal http://www.asteriskvoipnews.com/

Asterisk PBX 1.6.2.0-beta3 Now Available

Tue, 06/16/2009 - 12:14
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 athttp://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,... Dal http://www.asteriskvoipnews.com/

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

Mon, 06/08/2009 - 13:23
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... Dal http://www.asteriskvoipnews.com/

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

Fri, 06/05/2009 - 16:45
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 athttp://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... Dal http://www.asteriskvoipnews.com/

VoIP Inc. hit with involuntary bankruptcy petition

Fri, 06/05/2009 - 11:51
Three creditors are attempting to push a defunct Fort Lauderdale company into bankruptcy court. An involuntary petition was filed June 2 against VoIP Inc., a voice over Internet provider, in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for Southern Florida.   The company... Dal http://www.asteriskvoipnews.com/

Linksys Dual-Band Wireless-N Gigabit Router WRT320N

Wed, 05/27/2009 - 17:13
Priced at $110 (as of April 20, 2009), the Linksys Dual-Band Wireless-N Gigabit Router WRT320N is the sole router in this review that can operate on either the 2.4GHz or the 5GHz Wi-Fi band. Though we didn't test the WRT320N's... Dal http://www.asteriskvoipnews.com/

TRENDnet Releases New Cutting Edge N-Wireless IP Video Camera

Fri, 05/22/2009 - 16:21
TrendNet announces today, from Interop Las Vegas, the availability of the first to market Wireless-N Internet Camera Server with 2-Way Audio, model TV-IP512WN, offering unsurpassed wireless range and video bandwidth. This is the first Internet security camera with integrated 300Mbps... Dal http://www.asteriskvoipnews.com/

Digium Launches Switchvox Developer Central

Tue, 05/19/2009 - 12:26
Digium, the Asterisk Company, today unveiled Switchvox Developer Central, an online community for developers who are integrating voice and web applications using the Switchvox unified communications solution. Switchvox is Digium’s family of voice over IP (VoIP) phone systems for small... Dal http://www.asteriskvoipnews.com/

Asterisk open source PBX project servers have new names & URLs

Fri, 05/15/2009 - 11:51
In order to more closely align the services that Digium provides to the Asterisk open source community with the Asterisk project itself, we've recently renamed many of the servers that provide these services.Effective immediately:1) http://bugs.digium.com has moved to https://issues.asterisk.org There are... Dal http://www.asteriskvoipnews.com/

Asterisk PBX 1.6.2.0-beta2 Now Available

Mon, 05/11/2009 - 13:00
The Asterisk Development Team is pleased to announce the second beta of Asterisk 1.6.2.0. Asterisk-1.6.2.0-beta2 is available for immediate download athttp://downloads.digium.com/pub/asterisk/This release merges in changes to the device state code which caused a performance regression in Asterisk 1.6.1 and 1.6.2.... Dal http://www.asteriskvoipnews.com/