Emirates police says US, Israel, use BlackBerry to spy
Dahi Tamim By IAN ALLEN | intelNews.org | The alleged use of encrypted BlackBerry communications by adversary intelligence services operating in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is prompting local authorities to consider a nationwide ban on the popular phone. This was revealed late last week by Dubai Police chief, Lt. General Dahi Khalfan bin Tamim , who repeated a warning by UAE authorities that BlackBerry services in the country will be curtailed on October 11, unless the government is given access to BlackBerry’s encryption code by the manufacturer

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How will Email, VoIP, Social media effect the Telephone thing?
Yesterday, I called a colleague of mine demanding for a three hours overdue status update on a project I had tasked her last week. Under the impression that we were connected on Facebook, she had been providing the status updates on the social networking site and assumed that I was reading them.

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My Bad Business Model
My product can’t be manufactured without me being physically in the “factory”; I’m a shopkeeper who always has to be on the premises in order to make a “sale”, and my “product” can’t be made in advance, stockpiled, or frozen. I am, in fact, my “product” — the telephone prompts I voice for telephone systems around the world are, for the most part, made-to-order, custom, and require me to be present in order to create them. Pretty bad business model for anyone who desires to vacation, travel for any significant length of time, or, Godforbid, wants the luxury of getting sick

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Siemens Gigaset SL400
If Heineken made cordless phones, odds are they would look like this. A veritable Rolls Royce amongst telephones, this device addresses the single most irritating feature of the cordless phones I have owned to date.

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[tuxinstall.blogspot.com] Installing FreeSWITCH on Linux
@ tuxinstall.blogspot.com [2/Sep/2010] http://tuxinstall.blogspot.com/2010/09/deploy-installing-freeswitch-voip-on.html This HowTo can be downloaded at http://www.slideshare.net/AbhishekKr/free-switch-cent-os FreeSWITCH on RedHat, Fedora, CentOS To Install ‘FreeSWITCH’ on CentOS/RedHat/Fedora Installing Dependencies {Require Internet} =========================================== yum -y install autoconf automake libtool …….
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Sisyphus in a call centre.
(Day One.) Day One… Customer Service Agent: Hiiiiii! How can I help you today my lovely customer? (Yay! I can help!) Customer: … Well I certainly hope you CAN help me! I have been transferred about ten different times SINCE 9AM THIS MORNING, and I think it is absolutely RIDICULOUS, no, DISGRACEFUL , isn’t it? Well, isn’t it?

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Smart Phones Are Still Phones
After working with Android telephony for a while and learning about it mostly by looking at the code, I realized that there was not enough documentation about it besides the code itself. This post will provide detailed walk through about the java telephony internals. The android telephony architecture is split between java and native code.

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Call from Gmail
Google has a lot of stuff going on out there and this week they’re rolling out a new feature: phone calls from Gmail . There’s some nice integration with Google Voice which allows you to send your Google Voice number out to caller IDs OR receive phone calls in your Gmail inbox

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British MI6 employee found dead in London flat
Gareth Williams By JOSEPH FITSANAKIS | intelNews.org | British authorities are keeping silent on the mysterious death of a Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) employee, whose body was found in the bath of his London apartment, stuffed in a sports duffle bag. By Monday afternoon, when police entered the top apartment of the five-storey townhouse in Pimlico, London, the man had been laying dead for nearly a fortnight.

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Ryan Porter Brings the Gold Standard of Telecommunications Solutions
When you think of telecommunications you may think of such names as AT&T, Sprint, or MCI. However, in the Greater New England area telecommunications services has become synonymous with Ryan Porter. Ryan Porter’s dedication to telecommunications and assisting customers in finding the most ideal solution to meet their regional enterprise needs. Ryan has been notified that he will be the recipient of the “Gold Standard Telecommunications Award for Greater Rhode Island and Surrounding Counties”. This is the first time ever for this award to be won and will presented by his older brother Rick Porter via the telephone on August 23rd.

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Hosted VoIP PBX for an Economical Telecom Solution
Because of the result of massive developments in technology, absolutely no expensive on-site telecom hardware is essential for making use of the diverse functions of a hosted IP PBX telephone system. With a IP PBX telephone system, you are able to provide outstanding customer support providers and in so performing project a well-established business image. Hosted IP PBX is an internet phone system for small company enterprises
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Telecom Network Engineers (Guam)
Exact Titles/Positions: Senior IP Network Engineer Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) Company Description: The company is a full-service communications company and has been serving Guam for over 40 years, investing $50 million over the last 5 years on network infrastructure and back office systems. The company’s management team with deep knowledge and expertise in the areas of traditional telephony, broadband, wireless, cable, and emerging technologies

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Vice President of Engineering (Guam)
Company Description: The company is a full-service communications company and has been serving Guam for over 40 years, investing $50 million over the last 5 years on network infrastructure and back office systems.

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What’s In a Name?
By the time they hire me to voice their IVR’s, it’s probably too late to talk to people about why they’ve named their companies what they have – many late nights have already been spent and reams of legal yellow paper consumed brainstorming about how to make their company’s name as unique and significant as possible; coming up with imaginative and innovative ways of spelling ordinary words to make them their own, riffing on existing words and modifying them to make them unique, or building a name from several different components which represent their company; a name which will identify their organization and which will no doubt look great on letterhead, website, booth banners, and business cards.

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Are USB phones and IP phones the same phone?
I used to think USB phones and IP phones are the same thing that can make telephone calls very cheaply.But today some one tell me they are not.

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Meet The 2600hz Project, The New Sound of Open Source Telephony
Some of the core developers behind FreePBX — a well-known, open-source phone system — have teamed up and started The 2600hz Project , a commercial entity promoting a collection of open-source telephony applications and libraries.

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Telephony & Mobile APIs and Mashups, the Big Picture
Introduction It’s hard to believe that an industry as traditional, as closed, and as controlled by large companies as telecommunications would be a ripe source for APIs for mashups.

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Purple Heart Services
While attending IT Expo in Miami two years ago, I came across an interesting exhibitor who didn’t seem to fit into the typical prototype of the telco manufacturer, supplier, or reseller that usually sets up at those kind of of trade shows – and from no other exhibitor have I *ever* been given dog tags instead of business cards. They are Purple Heart Services, and in addition to raising funds for the service, welfare, and rehabilitation of wounded, disabled, and/or handicapped veterans (and their spouses, orphans or survivors), the aspect of their work which really intrigued me was their mandate to train disabled war veterans in call center and support center technology & skills — and to also position them into jobs in that industry. Naturally I was interested in offering to voice their IVR — which I did and continue to do to this day — but what most fascinated me was their unwavering committment to assist in improving the lives of those who have served their country — and who might have additional challenges which make re-entering the workforce after service even more daunting.

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VoIP Wars? The Evolution of Telephony
As an avid sports enthusiast knows, this off-season in the NBA is one of the most anticipated ever. The free agent sweepstakes, including one of today’s best players, LeBron James, was up for grabs. It is a time when a franchise can make or break their fortunes. Inevitably, there were competitions to make pitches to the top free agents, with every franchise looking for an edge over their competition. This same kind of courtship happens in the business world as well; a recent example is the acquisition by Google of Gizmo5 . When a startup’s product has shown its mainstream potential, it is unavoidable to have “companions” ready to bring the company into their team to enhance their competitive edge
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Check Out Nortel A0757152 GN Netcom Telephony Ear/Headset with Microphone for $9.45
Nortel A0757152 GN Netcom Telephony Ear/Headset with Microphone Review Nortel A0757152 GN Netcom Telephony Ear/Headset with Microphone Feature Plug and Play. Turn your PC into a free long distance service. Just plug it into your sound card, Convenient

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