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- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Zimbra mashes up with Zimlets
- In September last year I wrote about Zimbra, which had just introduced its open source email/calendaring application for enterprises. It’s claim to fame was a slick interface using AJAX technologies that reset the bar for Web-based email and calendaring. This week Zimbra is formally launching its mashup platform, now called...
- Blog posts 2006-01-22
- Getting Started With SIP API for J2ME (JSR 180)
- The SIP protocol was designed with the Internet in mind. With its request-response model, it resembles HTTP and other Internet protocols. As a result, telephony simply becomes another web application that can be integrated into other applications and services easily. Compared to legacy mobile-network protocols, SIP is easy to program...
- White papers 2004-11-01







