VoIP enabled on the Sony PS3

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Break in the Action
In what has been a rather bizarre chain of events, I went from not having Internet access at home (mostly like due to our first REAL snow of the year) yesterday, to not being able to access Gmail (today…who knows). Yes, I realize that there are more important things in the world, but these two little [...]

In what has been a rather bizarre chain of events, I went from not having Internet access at home (mostly like due to our first REAL snow of the year) yesterday, to not being able to access Gmail (today…who knows).

Yes, I realize that there are more important things in the world, but these two little glitches have but the Near Future of VoIP series on hiatus until I have internet access and Gmail working at the same time. Hopefully everything is back to normal tomorrow.

This post was from Garrett Smith’s VoIP Insights blog. Don’t miss another one of Garrett’s posts. Subscribe for FREE here. Want to save money and make FREE international calls? Visit Mobile VoIP Review.

Break in the Action

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Tags: msn messenger, call, voice over internet, free phone, voip-phones

Voxeo buys VoiceObjects

Voxeo accomplished multiple goals in acquiring VoiceObjects, the second company it has bought this year.  More acquisitions are expected throughout 2009.

By purchasing VoiceObjects, Voxeo has acquired middleware to enable carrier-grade deployments of over-the-phone self-service apps that are easier and cheaper to deploy - and enable personalization to each caller. There’s also a phone self-service analytics package for measuring performance that also allows non-technical staff members to make updates and changes.

VoiceObjects also brings a large European and mobile carrier footprint to Voxeo; Orange, O2 and Vodafone are all VoiceObjects customers, not to mention a bunch of enterprise customers including Adobe, Citibank, Hershey, IKEA, Kellogg, SAP and Volkswagen.

Open standards also play a role in this story. Voxeo and VoiceObjects are big users and advocates of VoiceXML, and it is likely Voxeo’s future acquisitions will use VoiceXML to build their solutions. The combined company will continue to enhance the VoiceObjects platforms and launch several new VoiceObjects-based products and services in 2009.

Employee-owned, Voxeo said it has logged twenty consecutive quarters of profitable operations, while sustaining an average yearly revenue growth rate exceeding 60 percent. It’s using all that cash to acquire companies, as it has bought four companies in the last four years. Earlier this year, the company bought Beijing-based Micromethod.  Voxeo “expects to close additional strategic acquisitions” in 2009.

For more:
- Voxeo talks about buying VoiceObjects. Release.

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Source: www.fiercevoip.com

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Hictu video micro-blogging platform integrates JAJAH
We are happy to announce our partnership and integration with our friend Luca Filigheddu’s most recent venture Hictu. The Hictu video micro-blogging platform lets users instantly publish text, audio and video messages online and share this content with friends and other Hictu users. Video and audio messages can be recorded directly from within Hictu webpages, [...]

We are happy to announce our partnership and integration with our friend Luca Filigheddu’s most recent venture Hictu.

The Hictu video micro-blogging platform lets users instantly publish text, audio and video messages online and share this content with friends and other Hictu users. Video and audio messages can be recorded directly from within Hictu webpages, turning the service into the “Twitter” for video micro-bloggers. Hictu enables

users to update the world with their “real-time” status and activities, while integrating content from leading IM and VoIP services.

Hictu users will be able to use the JAJAH service from within any micro-post on Hictu, simply by clicking on the green Jajah call button embedded in their Hictu profile. Users will also be able to talk from their phone with any other JAJAH customer or with any user who has previously registered a phone number in the Jajah section of their Hictu profile.

“We are very proud to announce this partnership with Jajah,” states Luca Filigheddu, CEO of Abbeynet. “Jajah is one of the fastest growing global Web telephony companies; a young company forecasted to play a leadership role in the future of Web-integrated communications.”

Developed in Italy and capable of competing over an international Web 2.0 scenario, the Hictu video micro-blogging platform lets users instantly publish text, audio and video messages online and share this content with friends and other Hictu users. Video and audio messages can be recorded directly from within Hictu webpages, turning the service into the “Twitter” for video micro-bloggers. Hictu enables users to update the world with their “real-time” status and activities, while integrating content from leading IM and VoIP services.

“Micro communities like Hictu are becoming daily places of congregation and are increasing in importance for their users,” says Roman Scharf, JAJAH co-founder. “It is our conviction to provide these spaces with the opportunity for web to voice capability to match the communication needs and preferences of its users. Hictu’s service is compelling and unique and we are thrilled to be working with them.”

Free Your Voice and try it out.

Source: www.mbayair.org

Tags: skype, voip-phones, msn messenger, h232, voip

YellowSnow! The iPhone 3G Software Unlock Beta (0.9.4) Released.
http://snapvoip.blogspot.com/
The iPhone Dev Team has released the updated he iPhone 3G software unlock program, YellowSnow. The program runs as a small command line application which is easy to install in any jailbroken iPhone 3G using Installer.
Even though I am not putting this on my iPhone, according to this poster on hachintosh, (read this discussion, which is very long, as well) all seem to be dandy and fine. You can find a portion of his post below;

“OK, I have spent the last 2 days working solid trying to get this to work on the UK Three (3) carrier on a iPhone that was locked to o2. Follow these steps, each one is pretty important:

1. Restore your iPhone with itunes to 2.2 firmware (if you haven’t already)

2. Jailbreak with QuickPwn (if you haven’t already)

3. Open installer and add the source Dev Team provided and download yellowsn0w 0.9.4 (if you haven’t already)

4. Download BigBoss Prefs (if you haven’t already)

5. Download Mobile Terminal (if you haven’t already)

6. Go into Settings -> Phone -> show My Caller ID Turn this ON
** Although it maybe greyed out and say OFF, you can still turn it ON**

7. Go into BigBoss Prefs and click Reboot

8. Once phone is on, go into Terminal

9. OK, now the timing of this next part in important.
There are 4 lines that need to be entered. You need to type;
- yellowsn0w –r
- yellowsn0w –c
- These two commands need to be entered between 2-4 seconds within each other. They way you do that is type in one of the commands (yellowsn0w –r) on the terminal screen (but don’t press enter) then if you click the top right corner (hit the battery symbol) another terminal will appear, type the second command (yellowsn0w –c) but don’t press enter. Now, hit the battery twice more and you’ll be back at the first terminal screen. Press enter, quickly press move to the second screen and press enter again. As long as “open: Resource Busy” does not appear, move to the next step, otherwise repeat the above, make sure you quick enough entering the commands.

10. Next do the same as the above but enter these two commands:
- yellowsn0w –r (i)
- yellowsn0w –l
- Again, make sure they are entered within 2-4 seconds of each other. And AGAIN, you will know if this worked by waiting 20 seconds after you’ve entered “yellowsn0w –l” and “open: Resource Busy” does not appear. (You should also see “Searching…” where your signal should be..,”

11. OK, nearly done, press home button to get out of terminal, go into Settings and turn on Aeroplane mode…turn it off…it’ll probably say “Searching…” again, if after another 20 seconds it’s still saying it, turn it on and off again and NOW it should find your network. **You’ll know if it’s working after this step as the “Carrier” bar will appear under WiFi.

NOTES – I’ve done this 3 times now to my own phone, seems to require it after each reboot. And don’t worry, it never worked the first time I tried it on each of the 3 occasions. I had WiFi on, Edge on, doesn’t seem to matter, it all seems to be about the terminal commands and having your Caller ID Showing…

OW, and BIG PROPS goes out to deli_gt who advised me through these hard times.”

Source: snapvoip.blogspot.com

Tags: voip-phones, voip, internet telephony, skype, call

Firebox Sells World’s First 3D Webcam

Online Gadget retailer Firebox is selling what it calls the first 3D webcam int he world and it is available for only £49.95; the Minoru even comes with five pairs of 3D glasses (ed : when will they have stylish 3D glasses?)

The webcam looks like a single legged red-aced alien with arms protruding. Minoru works the trick by combining two USB webcams altogether and adjusting the red and blue levels to create a near perfect 3D video stream.

Source: www.asteriskvoipnews.com

Tags: call, gsm, voip, internet telephony, free phone

A step by step guide on how to oversell your product: the Skype way

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Tags: internet telephony, skype, gsm, free phone, voip-phones

The Near Future of VoIP - Abdul Kasim, VP of Marketing Critical Links
For those of you out there who celebrated a holiday and enjoyed a few days away from it all, I hope you and yours enjoyed it. I know I did. For those of you still “away from it all” I wish I was there with you - continue to enjoy. After a few day break, I [...]

For those of you out there who celebrated a holiday and enjoyed a few days away from it all, I hope you and yours enjoyed it. I know I did. For those of you still “away from it all” I wish I was there with you - continue to enjoy.

After a few day break, I wanted to pick the series back up with Abdul Kasim of Critical Links. Critical Links makes a very exciting product called edgeBox. edgeBox is office-in-the-box IT solution that combines VoIP/IP-PBX, VPNs, security, NAC, QoS and a WiFi access point as well as a fax server, web server, e-mail server, print server and data storage into one device.

Despite the fact that it still won’t make your coffee - the edgeBox signals a new generation of small business technologies that look to harness the full capability of IP communications. That’s why Abdul is perfect to give us more insight into the future of VoIP…

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The Near Future of VoIP - Abdul Kasim, VP of Marketing Critical Links

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BroadSoft acquiring Sylantro - The impact

In a major consolidation of the VoIP application server space, BroadSoft Inc. is expected to publicly announce its acquisition of Sylantro Systems before Christmas — if not sooner.  Multiple sources with insight into BroadSoft and Sylantro say it’s a done deal, with former Sylantro employees conducting a privately-held wake on a LinkedIn discussion.

At BroadSoft, the acquisition is being viewed as a major boon with great respect being given to Sylantro’s past accomplishments in the marketplace, as well as its current brand strength.  The company will gain 50 new customers from Sylantro, including AT&T, Qwest, Swisscom and NuVox. BroadSoft executives describe Sylantro as a “formidable competitor” for the past decade and say they are “fortunate” to be able to acquire such a strong brand.

Terms of the deal appear to have been quite favorable. Sources say BroadSoft believes it will be able to generate positive cash flow from the acquisition in 2009, a feat it attributes to the consideration and terms of the merger. 

Others “in the know” on the transaction say that Sylantro was running out of cash with no means to raise additional capital.  A shotgun wedding with BroadSoft was a way to save jobs for some employees and spare existing customers the uncertainty of a bankruptcy filing.

Sylantro’s R&D office in Bangalore, India, is listed as a “key asset” in the acquisition. In addition, BroadSoft expects to keep a (smaller) office in Sylantro’s Silicon Valley HQ and keep parts of the sales organization.

Doug Mohney contributed to this report.

For more:
- We don’t think it’s a rumor anymore, but we do not have official confirmation from either company. RUMOR MILL: BroadSoft buys Sylantro

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Source: www.fiercevoip.com

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JAJAH Making Waves at CES
JAJAH has been the talk of the town at this years CES - the 2008 International Consumer Electronics Show. Shortly after the introduction of JAJAH Direct, allowing international calls from any phone at the cost of a local call, JAJAH starts the new year with a bang and announces the partnership with Callwave. The industry is [...]

JAJAH has been the talk of the town at this years CES - the 2008 International Consumer Electronics Show.

Shortly after the introduction of JAJAH Direct, allowing international calls from any phone at the cost of a local call, JAJAH starts the new year with a bang and announces the partnership with Callwave.

The industry is taking notice of JAJAH. After winning the Red Herring Top 100 North America Award in 2006, JAJAH has

been shortlisted for the prestigious Red Herring Global 100 2007 Awards. On the same note, JAJAH has been named a VoIP Leader by FierceVoIP, acknowledging JAJAH as one of the Top Ten VoIP players in the world (more details will follow later).

JAJAH was present at this years CES in Las Vegas and is very happy about the acknowledgment and outcome.

“We are blown away by the appreciation we get from within the industry, as well as every single positive feedback from our Millions of JAJAH users”

says Trevor Healy, CEO of JAJAH.

Thank you all and see you at next years CES.

Source: www.mbayair.org

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