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- Next Softphone 1.0 (Windows)
- NX is a softphone with a Computer Telephony Integration - CTI tool for Asterisk and third party application. API is based on .INI files, through which one can integrate IP telephony to any CRM / ERP software. FEATURES * SIP Proxy authentication. * Dial/Receive phone calls directly from your contact...
- Software downloads 2009-08-25
- Open Source Softswitch Adds Skype
- Here's an interesting teaser for you Skype aficionados. Later this month, the new release of FreeSWITCH, the first open source softswitch, will enable carriers and enterprise to integrate Skype into their VoIP services and platform. For the first time, developers will have a free, high-performance voice switching...
- Blog posts 2009-05-19
- Alcatel Lucent to offer Phone 2.0 features
- Alcatel-Lucent has designed a new interface that promises to bring your telephony experience - whether landline, mobile or IP - further into the 21st Century. Its new Rich Communications Manager, being unveiled today, is designed to do everything we've come to expect from cell phones today - things like text...
- Blog posts 2009-03-30
- Open Source VoIP: Asterisk or FreeSwitch?
- When the time came for a new PBX, Brian Snipes chose to do something a bit unconventional. The IT manager at law firm Hare, Wynn, Newell, and Newton LLP didn’t purchase a commercial PBX, nor did he settle on the open source market leader,...
- Blog posts 2008-07-22
- Voicent VoiceXML Gateway 6.0.1 (Windows)
- VoiceXML Gateway VOIP PSTN TAPI development API for interactive telephony application. High level development platform based on W3C VoiceXML. Supports text-to-speech, voice recognition, DTMF tones for both inbound, and outbound apps. Works with VOIP through Skype, and voice modem. API , SDK, tutorial, and sample code available online. This version...
- Software downloads 2008-04-21
- Backed by Intel, Ubuntu, Google, mobile linux is poised for commercial takeoff in 2008
- The momentum behind mobile Linux is accelerating because several communities -- and commercial giants -- are finally backing it. Despite earlier efforts from pioneering companies like MontaVista, Lineo and Access, the open source operating system has always taken a back seat to proprietary mobile operating systems such as Nokia-backed...
- Blog posts 2008-04-04
- MySpace: Will its socialist-like approach to its social app developers succeed?
- MySpace kicked off its developer program Tuesday by providing API's and development tools to tens of thousands of developers, with some unique diistinctions, and restrictions, that it hopes will result in high quality apps. Developers were invited to its "Sandbox" event in San Francisco to learn more about the...
- Blog posts 2008-02-06
- Ribbit's Amphibian consumer telephony app is just the tip of the iceberg
- Ribbit's Amphibian consumer telephony app is just the tip of the icebergPhone Mashups will include both Telco and IVRI completely agree with your excitement about the availability of telephone services that extend the web experience. At Ifbyphone we believe the minimum support required to build interesting and world changing...
- Discussion threads 2008-01-31
- VoIP-builder tool Ribbit: has potential, but manage your boasting, please
- In the IP Telephony space over the last several days, everybody's been talking about Ribbit. So I guess I should join the chorus. As you can see by the graphic, Ribbit's appealing value proposition is an open API (Application Program...
- Blog posts 2007-12-18
- New VoIP services dev platform seeks to accelerate carrier time to market
- Â A lot of what I've seen at Fall Von is best described as under-the-hood stuff. But let us not dismiss under-the-hood. In many cases, these are tools that help keep the VoIP services engines calibrated. For instance, I was briefed...
- Blog posts 2007-11-01
- MacCTI 1.11 (Mac)
- MacCTI is the best way to use the pure VoIP telephony system from innovaphone with a Mac. It bridges between the VoIP PBX and the Apple OSX operating system allowing you to automate the tasks of managing voice communication. Offers a full-featured scripting interface and development API allowing the user...
- Software downloads 2007-06-14
- Microsoft's next developer platform frontier: Unified communications
- Microsoft got its start by appealing to developers. Since its early days, the company has added more and more developer platforms to its line-up. And now it's building out another: An official developer platform for unified communications.Unified communications, in Microsoft parlance, refers primarily to Exchange Server and Office Communictions Server...
- Blog posts 2007-06-13
- eBay's new APIs: Harbingers of the Net's commerce operating system to come?
- Yesterday, as can be seen from the video we captured a part of eBay's senior director of Disruptive Innovation Max Mancini's keynote address at the eBay's Developer Conference in Boston, eBay made a series of announcements. Among them, the release of two new APIs that developers can use as they...
- Blog posts 2007-06-12
- Bungee Labs starts off Web 2.0 Expo with a bang -- web development as a service with a low-cost hosting model
- Its time to add another IT category to the official IT lexicon: software development and deployment as a service SDDS. And this ones a keeper.Thats my conclusion after seeing a demonstration of Bungee Labs new Bungee Connect offering, which combines the virtues of online web application development with a near-real-time...
- Blog posts 2007-04-16
- Two very different VoIP platforms. One company (Microsoft). Will the two ever meet?
- Under the headline Microsoft unveils VoIP-enabled phone platform, WindowsForDevices.com has a story about the hardware coming to market thats uses Microsofts Windows XP Embedded-based "Response Point." According to the post:Microsoft last week unveiled a VoIP-enabled phone system software platform based on Windows XP Embedded. "Response Point," currently in beta,...
- Blog posts 2007-04-02
- Microsoft, Developers, Designers and Bill Gates
- I was lucky enough to be a part of the group that went to Microsoft yesterday to talk about everything from the Designer/Developer workflow to their new XNA initiative and it capped off with a Q&A session with Bill Gates himself. From Back Left: Mike Arrington, Evan Williams, Tim Harris,...
- Blog posts 2006-12-14
- Salesforce.com building out connector ecosystem
- Salesforce.com’s latest ecosystem expansion is focused on AppConnect, an extension of the AppExchange marketplace for connectors that integrate its platform with a variety of applications and services, including ERP systems, Web services, desktop applications and middleware. Connectors have become an important part of salesforce.coms growth. In the last quarter, API...
- Blog posts 2006-11-26
- Unified communications finally meets SOA
- Voice communications and enterprise applications have been close neighbors on hundreds of millions of desktops the telephone sitting right next to the PC, with nothing between them but stale air and a pencil cup.Sure CTI has had some spotty payoffs. And while unified communications swallowed up huge VC investments over...
- Blog posts 2006-09-25
- Context aware telephony
- Last week, in a report from Digital ID World, I mentioned Equals. Gabe Gabe Wachob gave me the demo, but kept saying "I wish Ajay were here--he really gives a good demo." Ajay is Ajay Madhok, the CEO of AmSoft Systems, the company...
- Blog posts 2006-09-19
- First look at Polycom Communicator C100S
- Earlier this month I got an announcement from Polycom about their soon to be released Communicator C100S speaker-phone product which is optimized for Skype. As a heavy user of Skype which is notoriously bad at echo and feedback suppression, I was very excited about the acoustic...
- Blog posts 2006-05-18
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