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Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008The VoIP opportunity is still huge according to a new report from Infonetics Research. At a time when many industries are really hurting, hosted VoIP and managed IP PBX services grew 53% to $24 billion in 2007 after surging 66% in 2006. Obviously much of this growth is as a result of PSTN replacement but it should be noted that once IP is in place, the potential to add services increases greatly. The great news is Infonetics anticipates growth in the strong double-digits until at least 2011. I
Free Asterisk Calls to Zillions of Phones with ENUM and Gizmo5’s Backdoor Dialing
Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008Free Asterisk Calls to Zillions of Phones with ENUM and Gizmo5’s Backdoor Dialing Filed under: Technology Telephony — ward @ 2:00 am It’s been a while since there’s been much to cheer about in the free calls department with Asterisk. But today, to kick off the new school year, we have lots of good news and some simple tricks to add zillions of free phone numbers to your Asterisk repertoire. In fact, you’ll be able to call almost any non-AT&T cellphone or landline in the United States at no
Carnival of the Green #142!
Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008So the Carnival of the Green comes to Life Goggles. Thanks to Enviroblog for hosting last week and you can get next week’s fix at Savvy Vegetarian. Welcome to both new and regular readers, if you are new to Life Goggles then to sum us up, we basically do what it says along the top: green reviews, news and interviews. If you like what you see, sign up for our free weekly newsletter and/or our RSS feed over there on the right. Self-promotion over, let’s have a look at the submissions this week
VoIP comes to iPhone, gingerly
Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008Global IP Solutions, a company well-recognized for its media-processing expertise in IP communications, announced on Monday its SDK, which enables Voice over IP applications to be made for Apple’s iPhone. Soon …
Why VoIP Needs to Go Green
Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008Is VoIP greener than most traditional telephony technologies? While some individuals believe that VoIP is more environmentally friendly than the telecoms, we felt hesitant to agree. VoIP, after all, employs the Internet to operate, and network communications — along with their data centers and other resources — are notoriously energy hungry. Accord
Five Offbeat Startup Ideas That Are Worth Their Weight In Hits
Sunday, August 31st, 2008Startups are springing like mushrooms everywhere; and they offer just about everything from conferencing services and cool groomsmen gifts to domain names and engravable cufflinks. Before you jump into the fracas, however, and create a startup of your own, take the time to draft a plan. While all startups have no problems starting, most have trouble surviving. In fact, more than half of all startups established annually die quickly, sputtering out within months of operation. By creating a busin
Internet telephony: call charges set to decline (The Hindu)
Sunday, August 31st, 2008To help increase broadband penetration
Internet phone revolution for India (Independent Online)
Sunday, August 31st, 2008India’s telecoms regulator has called for full-blown telephone services via the Internet, paving the way for another fall in the nation’s already cheap call rates.
Low cost Internet phone revolution beckons for India (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Sunday, August 31st, 2008Battle lines are being drawn after India’s telecoms regulator called for full-blown telephone services via the Internet, paving the way for another fall in the nation’s already cheap call rates.
Hackers got into FEMA Phone System
Sunday, August 31st, 2008Hackers got into FEMA Phone System Filed under: Homeland Security — sfcmac @ 5:19 pm Just great. A hacker broke into a Homeland Security Department telephone system over the weekend and racked up about $12,000 in calls to the Middle East and Asia. The hacker made more than 400 calls on a Federal Emergency Management Agency voicemail system in Emmitsburg, Md., on Saturday and Sunday, according to FEMA spokesman Tom Olshanski. FEMA is part of Homeland Security, which in 2003 put out a warnin
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