Prize fight17.04.2008 18:43 - source: BBC News No clear winner in Pennsylvania debate Read more… |
Moon rock diet17.04.2008 18:43 - source: BBC News Scientists hope to find way to grow plants on the Moon Read more… |
S Africans march over food prices17.04.2008 18:43 - source: BBC News Thousands of South African trade union members march to protest against the rising cost of food. Read more… |
Oil hovers near $115 record high17.04.2008 18:43 - source: BBC News Oil prices hover close to $115 a barrel, having crossed the record mark on Thursday on US supply fears. Read more… |
Prosecutors charge Samsung chief17.04.2008 18:43 - source: BBC News Prosecutors in South Korea indict Samsung chairman Lee Kun-hee for tax evasion and breach of trust. Read more… |
Georgia demands Russia reversal17.04.2008 18:43 - source: BBC News Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili tells Russia to revoke decisions which he says breach Georgian sovereignty. Read more… |
Yemeni child bride gets divorce17.04.2008 18:43 - source: BBC News A Yemeni lawyer describes how an eight-year-old got her marriage annulled after walking into court on her own. Read more… |
Afghanistan suicide bomb kills 1717.04.2008 18:43 - source: BBC News A suicide bomb in Zaranj in southwestern Afghanistan kills at least 17 people and injures 25. Read more… |
Six guilty of terrorism support17.04.2008 18:43 - source: BBC News A Muslim preacher who heckled the home secretary is among six men convicted of supporting terrorism. Read more… |
Write-downs add to Merrill woes17.04.2008 18:43 - source: BBC News Merrill Lynch reports heavy losses in the first three months of 2008, after more credit market write-downs. Read more… |
Ion engine enters space race17.04.2008 18:43 - source: BBC News A British-built engine powered by ions makes its first space trip this summer on Europe's gravity explorer probe. Read more… |
Leona album smashes into US chart17.04.2008 18:43 - source: BBC News Leona Lewis becomes the first British woman to enter the US album chart at number one with her debut, Spirit. Read more… |
Action urged on child abuse sites17.04.2008 18:43 - source: BBC News A net watchdog calls for an international effort that could see the end of sites that sell images of child sex abuse. Read more… |
IPL all set for Bangalore launch17.04.2008 18:43 - source: BBC News The Indian Premier League, with its potential to transform world cricket, begins on Friday in Bangalore. Read more… |
ICL eager to sign up English team17.04.2008 18:43 - source: BBC News Kapil Dev wants to add an English team to the rebel Indian Cricket League. Read more… |
Megafon Picks Proxim17.04.2008 18:43 - source: www.topix "Proxim wireless equipment allowed us to deploy a network enabling high performance long range broadband access services to a large number of customers for the right price" Proxim Wireless Corporation , a leader in core-to-client solutions for broadband wireless networks, today announced that it has provided Tsunami MP.11 5054 radios for a wireless network in Russia to MSS ... via Light Reading Read more… |
Test: Fring Brings VoIP To iPhone With Mixed Results17.04.2008 18:43 - source: www.topix Categories: iPhone , iPhone , VOIP , VOIP Isreali company Fring has brought its VoIP application, also called Fring, to the iPhone. via Wired News Read more… |
Talk to Skype from your Iphone17.04.2008 18:43 - source: www.topix "R&D process of the full release version, due for launch later this year [2008]." VOIP SOFTWARE specialist, Fring , has released a beta version of its Fring client for the Apple Iphone. via The Inquirer Read more… |
Hulk Smash Asterisk 1.6!17.04.2008 18:43 - source: voipgadgets 
Nerd Vittles had been lamenting the fact that the "Asterisk 1.6 development seemed to be on a collision course with the dinosaurs because of developer insistence on deprecating and removing commands from the application programming interface (API) in the name of technology enhancement." Nerd Vittles then explains why this is a bad idea. The problem this poses is that applications and dialplans written for previous versions of Asterisk no longer function even though the code is barely a year old. In the corporate and government sectors, this would mean major, costly (annual) rewrites of code just to keep a functioning phone system. And, as we noted, these organizations buy phone systems to last a decade so such a development strategy would all but rule out use of Asterisk in the Fortune 500, medical, and government sectors. True that! Nerd goes on to sound the alarm regarding the future of Asterisk. Today we want to share the Digium response and address some of the new issues that have been raised. For those of you that haven't met him, Jared Smith, who co-authored the terrific Asterisk: The Future of Telephony books, now serves as Digium's Community Relations Manager. Jared sent us a thought-provoking response which you can read in its entirety here. For ease of understanding, we're going to quote a number of sections of Jared's response and address them below so that you get the full picture of how dangerous the Digium development approach is to the future of the Asterisk project. Go read Nerd Vittles entire post. The main premise of Nerd Vittles post is that it would seem that Asterisk, the "Incredible Hulk of Open Source Telephony" is "breaking" the cardinal rule when it comes to programming - namely don't break your existing applications and be backwards compatible. But apparently, the programmers at Digium have been breaking existing applications. I contacted Digium creators of the "Incredible Hulk of Open Source Telephony" for comment... Their spokesperson The Hulk was nice enough to comment. Me: Hulk, I'd just like to say that I love open source Asterisk, which was created in the good ole' USA! Hulk: Hulk like USA except when USA Army tanks and helicopters shoot Hulk. Hulk like open spaces so Hulk jump high. Hulk like open source too. Me: What are your thoughts on Nerd Vittles claiming Digium is breaking existing Asterisk applications in the new Asterisk 1.6? Hulk: Me hate puny Nerds. Nerds weak. Me: Yes, but what about his claim you are breaking Asterisk applications? Hulk: Me Hulk. Me like break things. Me: Yes, but if you break Asterisk, you will no longer be the "Incredible Hulk of Open Source Telephony" Hulk: You threaten Hulk. You make Hulk very angry. Me: Whoah. Calm down there big guy. I'm just sayin' Hulk: You no say! You not make Hulk angry. Me: Digium's Jared Smith said the following, "APIs change when major versions of the software are released. (APIs are Application Programming Interfaces -- think of them as building blocks inside of the Asterisk code that both Asterisk and third-party programs can use to do various things.) The problem is, when we make Asterisk better, we often have to change those APIs to do so. What are your thoughts? Hulk: I like building blocks. Hulk like smash blocks of buildings! Me: So you like breaking the building blocks of programming? That's not a good idea. Do you know that proprietary PBXs often "locked you in" forcing you to use their solutions? Hulk: Hulk no like being locked in. Thunderbolt Ross try capture Hulk. Make Hulk very angry. Me: Nerd gave an example of how the new version of Asterisk (1.6) breaks existing dialplans and why that's a bad thing. He writes: We defy anyone to explain why "making Asterisk better" required breaking every dialplan on the planet because some developer thought Set(TIMEOUT(digit)=timeout) was a code improvement over DigitTimeout(timeout). Hulk: You confuse Hulk. Me no understand. Me: Exactly. Nor do the programmers that wrote code & APIs one way and now have to rewrite their code. Hulk: That not good? Me: No it isn't. Nerd Vittles succinctly explains: Asterisk developers can't and won't be responsible for making sure they don't break existing applications and dialplan code, and Digium won't do anything to migrate existing code to new platforms. I'm not sure I understand how development of a piece of migration application code requires a knowledge of every third-party application in the universe. Presumably, the Asterisk development team does know when it changes the syntax of some command in the existing API. Why then would it be so difficult to provide another application that translated the "old code" into the "new syntax?" That doesn't require that any third-party apps be reviewed. And it doesn't stymie future development. Just provide the tool to fix stuff that you broke! Any comments to this Hulk? Hulk: Digium broke stuff? Only Hulk break stuff. Hulk mad! Me: You should be. Only the Hulk should be breaking things. In fact, I know you only want to "break" the competition. You want to smash Cisco, Avaya, Nortel, don't you, Hulk? Hulk: Yes! Hulk crush Cisco, Avaya, Nortel! HULK SMASH! Nerd Vittles has some valid points about Asterisk 1.6.0 breaking existing APIs and I myself as a programmer am at a bit of a loss as to why Digium would do that. But to be fair to Digium, you should read Jared Smith's entire response posted on Nerd Vittles' article, which presents Digium's point of view on why they did what they did. What are your thoughts on Digium changing APIs - often a simple syntax change - that breaks existing applications? Tags: API, Asterisk, Asterisk 1.6.0, Digium, Hulk, Incredible Hulk, Nerd Vittles, open source, VoIP Related Entries Top 10 Reasons Why I love Asterisk - Aug 03, 2007 Digium reaches 1 million download milestone - Dec 19, 2007 Astfin announces Asterisk Appliance based on Blackfin - Oct 30, 2007 Digium Acquires Switchvox - Sep 27, 2007 Digium Wins InfoWorld ''Best of Open Source Software'' Award - Sep 18, 2007 Digium - The Showstopper! - May 18, 2007 Digium podcast of Mark Spencer's new role - Jan 30, 2007 Podcast Interview with Digium CEO Danny Windham - Apr 17, 2008 PhoneFromHere.com & Digium Ink 5 Year Deal - Apr 09, 2008 Asterisk USB Hub - Mar 31, 2008 Comments on this Entry: (Tim Fromm on Apr 16, 2008 4:41 PM) Great article! I'm a huge Asterisk fan myself. Asterisk certainly is the 'Hulk' when it comes to phone systems. You can do so much more with it than a Cisco or Nortel IP-PBX. I find it odd that Digium would change the dialplan syntax or the APIs. Add additional features sure, but change the syntax of what already works? Huh? I think Digium could provide a tool to update the old API or dialplan to the new one automatically. Then everyone would be happy. Of course if the Hulk is happy and not angry, then he turns back into Dr. Bruce Banner. ;) Nevertheless, I can't knock Digium too much on this one. They did create the Asterisk Hulk after all. (db on Apr 16, 2008 6:18 PM) Hulk green =! Trixbox blue Green is the only true color! (Phil Souza on Apr 17, 2008 9:48 AM) Nice Analogy! Congratulations Tom! Read more… |
TringMe opens platform API to developers17.04.2008 18:43 - source: voipgadgets Some great news for VoIP developers. Today TringMe announced it has opened up its platform APIs for developers. According to TringMe's blog, TringMe’s open API will allow developers of Adobe Flex, AIR, Symbian S60 or even a pure web platform like PHP, AJAX to create web based, mobile or standalone voice enabled applications easily. TringMe supports an alphabet soup of standards. In fact, they boldly state, "Our modular structure allows us to offer APIs to be used by any kind of application and not tie us to Adobe Flex, AIR, PHP, AJAX or any such technology or platform. We are offering interface which is cross-platform and scalable on any language." Further, TringMe today also announced it is opening up the source code of it’s Flash based widgets. Well done TringMe! On a related note, VoIP developers should also check out my post here for information on TMC's educational seminar targeted specifically for VoIP and communications developers. Tags: Adobe, AJAX, developers, Flash, Flex, TringMe, TringPhone, VoIP Related Entries tringme TringPhone Flash VoIP App Launches - Dec 03, 2007 C2Call - New browser-based Java VoIP app - Apr 03, 2008 Zingaya Media Server enables Adobe Flash-based VoIP - Feb 19, 2008 SightSpeed Light Flash Video Conferencing & Chat - Jan 07, 2008 Flashphone adds SIP Call Me Button - Dec 18, 2007 Ribbit Launches - Dec 17, 2007 Ribbit Flash VoIP App Launch - Dec 07, 2007 PushCall.com Another Flash VoIP Player - Dec 04, 2007 flashphone Beta Running on Adobe Flash launches - Nov 06, 2007 VoIP & Communications Developers - We've heard you... - Mar 28, 2008 Read more… |
PIKA T1/E1 and analog boards now compatible with FreeSWITCH17.04.2008 18:43 - source: voipgadgets PIKA T1/E1 and analog boards are now compatible with FreeSWITCH. Some good news for PIKA this morning worth reading... PIKA Technologies Inc., a developer of media-processing hardware and software, today announced that its entire family of analog and digital host media processing (HMP) boards is now compatible with FreeSWITCH, an open-source telephony platform typically used by large telecommunications companies deploying soft switches and other voice applications. This is the latest partnership that PIKA has announced as part of its mission to support open-source-telephony application developers, having previously announced compatibility with the Asterisk platform. "PIKA is thrilled to be partners with the FreeSWITCH community. This will mean more options for application development companies across the globe who are building FreeSWITCH-based solutions," said Terry Atwood, vice president of sales, marketing and customer care at PIKA. "Now, FreeSWITCH users will have access to PIKA’s robust media-processing software and hardware, and as a result, be able to stabilize as well as add incremental value to their applications." FreeSWITCH is designed to facilitate the creation of voice and chat-driven products scaling from a soft phone up to a soft switch. It can be used as a simple switching engine, a PBX, a media gateway or a media server to host IVR applications using simple scripts or XML to control the call flow. "I was really excited to get PIKA hardware working in FreeSWITCH," said Anthony Minessale, Lead Developer and author of FreeSWITCH. "It’s a welcome edition to our spec sheet. It’s been long anticipated by our user base and I’m pleased to announce we have it working in time for our May 26th 1.0 release. I’m looking forward to meeting with PIKA in person this August at Clue Con 2008 http://www.cluecon.com." The PIKA product suite comprises a range of hardware and software designed to support applications built on open-source platforms. These building blocks are designed to provide cost-effective and reliable network connectivity to bridge between legacy TDM networks and open source-based IP telephony applications. With the PIKA Daytona analog FXO (trunk) and FXS (station) boards, and the PrimeNet digital T1/E1 boards, FreeSWITCH developers can select the hardware that meets their application’s particular needs. Tags: Asterisk, E1, FreeSWITCH, FXO, FXS, HMP, PIKA, T1, telephony cards, VoIP Related Entries PIKA releases major enhancements to host-based media processing platform - Jun 27, 2007 Sangoma Technologies Offers Lifetime Warranty - Mar 18, 2008 PIKA for Asterisk boards now trixbox CE compatible - Jan 22, 2008 Astfin announces Asterisk Appliance based on Blackfin - Oct 30, 2007 Slacht - Asterisk-based PBX chooses PIKA - Jun 07, 2007 Actiontec VoSKY Skype Gateway adds FXS ports - Jan 25, 2007 Podcast Interview with Digium CEO Danny Windham - Apr 17, 2008 Hulk Smash Asterisk 1.6! - Apr 16, 2008 trixbox 2.0 launches - Apr 15, 2008 ISPBX Launches Asterisk appliances with CogoBlue Asterisk GUI - Apr 10, 2008 Read more… |
MyGlobalTalk Beta Version 2.0 for Mobile VoIP17.04.2008 18:42 - source: Voipmonitornet MyGlobalTalk Beta Version 2.0 for Mobile VoIPi2Telecom releases its Beta Version 2.0 of its MyGlobalTalk service. MyGlobalTalk is a new and advanced mobile VoIP application that targets the wireless handset market. Read more… |
Sigma Systems Surpasses 100 million Managed Quad-Play IP Services17.04.2008 18:42 - source: Voipmonitornet Sigma Systems Surpasses 100 million Managed Quad-Play IP ServicesSigma Systems IP service fulfillment solution has surpassed managing over 100 million bundled IP services for communications service providers globally. Read more… |
fring Delivers Mobile VoIP to the iPhone via WiFi17.04.2008 18:42 - source: Voipmonitornet 
fring Delivers Mobile VoIP to the iPhone via WiFifring mobile VoIP application to be made publicly available for the iconic apple iPhone, enabling users to talk, chat and interact with other fring users ("fringsters") and all of their online communities, using their iPhone's WiFi connection. Read more… |
Voice Peering Forum Summer 2008 Announcement17.04.2008 18:42 - source: Voipmonitornet Voice Peering Forum Summer 2008 AnnouncementStealth Communications is pleased to formally announce the Voice Peering Forum Summer 2008. The Forum will be held on June 23-24 2008 at Hotel Nikko San Francisco. Read more… |