Voip news by the Sip Guy

Asterisk 10.1.0 and Asterisk 1.8.9.0 released

admin — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 22:06:51 +0000

Both Asterisk 10 and Asterisk 1.8 versions are currently being supported and updates were released for both versions.

Will the iPhone hype eventually disappear?

admin — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:48:08 +0000

With all the good news about Apple’s earning report and becoming the largest company in the world, there are some other news that interests, telecom people.
Apple’s iPhone has a market share of 44.9% while Android slipped to 44.8% from recent 50% market share. The data was published by Kantar Worldpanel ComTech.
Android is the leading phone platform in the world market but Apple iPhone is closing at a rapid rate;
“Dominic Sunnebo, global consumer insight director of Kantar Worldpanel ComTech, explains: “Apple has continued its strong sales run in the US, UK and Australia over the Christmas period. Overall, Apple sales are now growing at a faster rate than Android across the nine countries we cover.”
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Apple has the wall street alight today with unprecedented share price and more than 13 Billion dollars income.

Mean while, Microsoft’s Windows phone market share did not get the help that it was expecting from Nokia Lumia 800 and the market share in all key markets remained around 2%.

AT&T to launch communication services

admin — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 23:58:13 +0000

AT&T will launch new cloud-based unified communications services on Thursday, giving businesses the ability to integrate chat, email, voice over IP calls, audio and video conferencing and more over desktops and many mobile devices.

AT&T UC Services will be made up of UC Central and UC Voice. UC Central will give a business a single user communications interface for both mobile and desktop computers, while UC Voice will offer IP telephony from an AT&T cloud that can be used alone or with UC Central.

UC Voice will run over the Cisco Hosted Collaboration Solution system.

Shawn Conroy, vice president of voice, collaboration and unified communications for AT&T Business Solutions, said the new UC services will allow workers at all sizes of businesses to have easy access to a range of communications for better collaboration.

With UCVoice, a business will not need to buy a new PBX switch or any software licenses.

Conroy called the service simple and affordable, while a spokeswoman said a business can pay per month on an as-needed basis. Other pricing details were not announced.

A virtual launch event is being held at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. ET Thursday to demonstrate the new service.

Matt Hamblen covers mobile and wireless, smartphones and other handhelds, and wireless networking for Computerworld. Follow Matt on Twitter at @matthamblen or subscribe to Matt’s RSS feed . His e-mail address is mhamblen@computerworld.com .

Phone company I recommend

admin — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 08:16:14 +0000

I highly recommend SOS Global Telecom, they are in the communication business for over 30 years, and in the voip buisness for over 10 years, before most of us had heard of VOIP.

They offer everything from simple home phone service, to hosted PBX, to highly customized apps (ie order entry, phone banking etc).

Their experienced team is a phone call away @ 718-871-7824

Nerd Vittles: Introducing PIAF2 with CentOS 6.2 and your choice of Asterisk & FreePBX flavors + Google Voice

admin — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 20:53:07 +0000

http://nerdvittles.com/?p=791