One of the few ICT-related items in yesterday’s “emergency budget” was the announcement that the proposed levy on landlines in order to support better penetration of broadband is to be scrapped before it even started.
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Summer Budget 2010: Landline tax to be scrapped
Google’s call-routing telephony service goes mainstream. When Google bought Grand Central three years ago , many Google watchers saw this day coming .
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Google Voice now open to all in the US
Realtors have long understood the importance of accurately and engagingly describing properties to prospective buyers. Written copy describing the features of properties range from point-form, almost “hostage-letter”-style writing, to emotion-filled, detailed, and flowery listings which border on prose.
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Location, Location, Location!
If you didn’t already know about this, check it out: Le Tigre have a new blog to promote their new tour movie , and not only that—they’re fully on the Internet , with a Facebook page and a Twitter account. Honestly, seeing that Le Tigre follow Lady Gaga on Twitter made me happy. For that reason—and because, as the always-sharp Hortense points out , the Lady Gaga backlash was inevitable, and it’s probably starting (“this is repetitive … but nothing has changed!”)—I’m feeling newly inspired to post an amateur mashup that I almost posted a couple of months ago. On the one hand, I had fiddled around with the track a lot and then realized there were still lots of things that could be fixed, and I didn’t know what I was doing. On the other hand, punk rock, right? I hope you’ll stand with me in support of the bad pop mashup as critical tool, and against the all-too-popular proudly phallogocentric mode of Lady Gaga critique represented by Mark Dery’s essay from April , which was and remains misdirected and anti-art . And Dery’s respective replies to the commenters who called him out on the jaw-dropping misogyny of his article actually managed to be worse than the article itself, I think. That comments section is like a master class in defending your privilege.
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Yr Telephone Critique
With constant improvement of popularization and network quality day by day of the Broadband network, because of the voice Technology of dividing into groups (VOIP) IP Phone products become more and more popular. A lot of enterprises regard pronunciation of dividing into groups as and reduce the favorable means of the cost of communication among office premises.
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Small business VoIP communication solution
Since Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) was originally defined as a signaling protocol for multimedia sessions, SIP has grown beyond its targeted use as an IP-based telephony messaging medium to conferencing and instant messaging. A service provider infrastructure focused on supporting IP-based telephony services is necessarily more complex than simple, web-based services. This makes ensuring reliable, scalable services more difficult. This paper addresses the challenges and solutions when providing high-availability and scalability for SIP services. By choosing the right high-availability solution for SIP environments, organizations can ensure reliable services while maintaining the ability to rapidly support new functionality and infrastructure without sacrificing uptime or quality. Running time: 18:31 Read the full white paper here And click here for more F5 Audio . Download now or listen on posterous AudioWP_-_Scaling_SIP.mp3 (12690 KB) ps twitter: @psilvas Technorati Tags: F5 , infrastructure 2.0 , integration , cloud connect , Pete Silva , security , business , education , technology , application delivery , intercloud , cloud , context-aware , infrastructure 2.0 , automation , web , internet Posted via web from psilva’s prophecies
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Audio White Paper – Scaling SIP
The customer, a recruitment agency located in London, requested a flexible telephony solution at an affordable price for their new branch office. The main concern was the ability to record calls on demand and monitor active calls . Impressions of the customer, Wesley Ephson, Managing Director, Q4 Recruitment: We have found the service from Phones Correct nothing short of excellent.
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Xorcom PRI IPBX with Call Recording/Monitoring Implemented in 3 Days by Phones Correct
Two scams exposed by today’s papers: I. Govt loses Rs30 billion: Rehman Malik reaps ‘grey’ calls windfall “Reach out and touch someone!” ISLAMABAD, June 14: The government is facing an estimated annual revenue loss of over Rs 30 billion on account of ‘grey telephony’ under which international calls are re-routed through local — often illegal — exchanges to avoid local taxes, mainly because of policies designed apparently to favour a sitting powerful minister
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Foxes Guarding The Henhouse
There's Enough Pie for Everyone! When I was an acting major at the University of Calgary, I remember a librarian on the Fine Arts Floor and I trying to solve a mystery: despite the card catalogues proclaiming that several compendiums of monologues were catalogued as having a specific monologue I was looking for, (I was an after a unique audition piece for upcoming general auditions which would be one that the panel hadn’t seen before or hadn’t tired of — I wanted to avoid being the fifteenth “Saint Joan” they’d seen that day…) — none of the compilations seemed to have the audition piece despite a careful scan of each page…until the librarian pointed out a razor cut near the spine — and the specific page containing the monologue was missing. Someone had taken out an X-Acto knife and had removed the monologue from the book — not due to a shortage of photocopying change. The librarian had seen it before in the law library: so fierce was the competition among law students to be the only ones familiar with obscure law cases, (and the perceived importance of no one else being privy to that case) that they meticulously removed them from law texts to give them that extra edge. Not long ago, I was in the roster of an online voice talent agency which had a web interface where talent could upload their auditions — but any approved talent, after logging in, accessed a page which displayed *all* the talent’s full names, e-mail addresses, and audition files — which could be listened to by other talent; but more importantly — and more sinister — could be easily corrupted, deleted, or replaced by anyone who chose to.
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The Myth of Competition
Image : http://www.flickr.com It has been shown that the global economy down steadily falling, and it is affecting many multi-national companies. These days, most of these companies are always bound to do to cut costs. Such companies spend a lot of money in their communication will pay off bills such as Internet, telephone bills, etc
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Free phone calls with Internet telephony
We recently came across an interesting blog post from one of our channel partners (José Miguel Parrella Romero, CTO at Onuva). In the detailed article, José Miguel describes the advantages of using Xorcom Astribank USB-connected telephony interfaces over PCI cards and Ethernet gateways. In José Miguel’s words: I’m really happy with the Astribank and I can fully understand how useful it is in terms of price (quite competitive in comparison with traditional cards, specially when bought from resellers -like me-), size/weight and functionality/ease of setup and administration.
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Ditching PCI Cards in Asterisk for Fun and Profit: Re-post
I do not know what it take to fix it but so far a failure in the vodafone store to purchase a Samsung Omnia II for 0 euros without commitment to permanence. Link here: https: / / tienda.vodafone.es / do / catalog / buy / conportabilidad? p = a2c6f247ebb24e409025bd2b0bc227b3 Snapshot performed at this time: http://img708.imageshack.us/img708/8309/fallowebvodafone.jpg “Seep
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A fault in the Vodafone store lets you purchase a Samsung Omnia II for 0 euros
“Hhhallo…?” While recording the “serious” Asterisk prompts for Digium one day a couple of years ago, I got creative and threw in a “joke” prompt which had been brewing in my mind for awhile: what would happen if — while patiently waiting to talk to someone in a company — they truly *did* forget that you were on hold?
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"You Are *Not* The Next Caller in Line…"
People around the world with Internet telephony service through traditional phone lines opt for the essential fact that Internet telephony is much cheaper than traditional long-distance services. Keep this growing demand for Internet telephony in mind, many software companies in this area for a share of this growing market segment. Most Internet telephony software brand in the market today is expensive which makes it unaffordable for lowHousehold users
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Free Software Internet Telephony
When Ottawa-based Mitel Networks Corp. went public six weeks ago, the response was lukewarm, at best. The company, which makes telephony systems for businesses, raised less than three quarters of the US$200-million it was after and its welcoming on the Nasdaq was chilly , falling 12% on its first day of trade
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Forget frosty IPO, Mitel Networks a solid ‘late cycle’ play
(I guess I better post something here because it’s been a while.) So over the last two weekends I made a simple oFono client in javascript, meaning that it’s browser-based or “web-based”. To do that I needed a way to talk to D-bus over HTTP. I’ll try to set up a demo instance of the client later but now I’ll just mention the HTTP to D-bus gateway. Even though the whole thing is a hack, maybe the gateway will be useful to someone. It’s also possible that there are already fifteen similar programs there, I’ve not really checked. The idea is rather simple, it’s a 10 kilobyte python script called gateway.py and you can run it in some directory and it will run a primitive web server on a given port using python’s built-in http library, and will serve the files from the current directory and its subdirectories. It also understands a couple of fake requests that enable web applications to talk to D-bus. It connects to the system bus and relays messages to and from D-bus services using the following three types of (GET) requests: / path / to / object / Interface . Method ( parameters ) – This makes a regular D-bus call to a given method on a given interface of an object. It’s synchronous and the HTTP response will contain the D-bus response written as JSON. The D-bus types correspond very neatly to JSON types so the response is easy to use in javascript on the web.
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Javascript to D-bus, can you hear me
Nancy Cartwright — the legendary voice of Bart Simpson – used to conduct voice-over workshops on a regular basis (she is focusing more on charitable fundraising and other causes now) — the people who would flock to the workshops (which were expensive and had massive waiting lists) were those who saw the performing of animation voices as the penultimate genre in voiceover in which to work — and being the voice actor behind a well-known and beloved character (such as Bart Simpson) is the fantasy of many. The income that the Simpsons actors must be amassing…..not to mention the unheard of job security and the unusual fame of being able to walk the streets and not be recognized — until you open your mouth — is amazingly alluring. I, myself, realise that I am not a treasure-trove of character voices.
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Dream Jobs
January 15th, 2009 Most telephony new products are about mobile, but I pay almost no attention to every kind of accessory or feature for your mobile phone. No need to hear from me since the mobile mainstream is covered in many places—see Palm in the news. I still use a Palm IIIc (occasionally) and liked the work they did on the human interface, so I hope the new phone is as good as claimed
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Tripping on Telephony at CES
September 17th, 2008 Depending on how you read many of my posts I may seem to be trolling for Skype weaknesses to highlight. Today let me at least praise the keynote presented by Skype’s Jonathon Christensen at the Internet Telephony Conference this week. These industry conferences are not known for too many real edgy positions and controversy, but the title of “VoIP is Dead” for his talk certainly was a wake-up
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I Come to Praise Skype and Not to Bury It
Imagine retrieving your mail from your letterbox and noticing that all envelopes have been ripped open, and sloppily re-sealed with a sticker reading: “This mail has been opened and inspected for quality control and training purposes”. Imagine even more bizarrely: not even caring about that and even accepting this as a normal function of doing business with the post office, or with the company which sent you the letter in the first place.
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Your Call WILL Be Recorded…