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Digium's 7th Annual Astricon Asterisk Conference Oct 26-28, 2010
Digium, the Asterisk Company, has kicked off planning for the seventh annual AstriCon Open Source Telephony Conference and Exhibition. The event will be held just outside Washington, D.C. on October 26-28, 2010, at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center. Digium is the corporate sponsor and owner of the Asterisk project, the most widely used open source platform for creating custom communication solutions. Speaker topic submissions are open, and the conference organizers are soliciting talk concepts for 2010. Digium invites those who would like to speak at AstriCon to submit information for consideration by May 1, 2010, at http://bit.ly/speak-astricon2010.
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Apple increases iPhone's 3g app download limit
In a move many expect paves the way for applications on the new iPad, Apple has boosted the maximum size of an iPhone app download over 3G from 10MB to 20MB. Previously iPhone users who wanted to download an app that was larger than 10 MB, such as a video or podcast, had to switch over to a WiFi connection.
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Military VoIP-based vehicle intercom system for armored vehicles introduced by Accusonic
Accusonic Products in Bay Shore, N.Y., is introducing an ultra-light, multi-platform voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) vehicle intercom system for the confined spaces of mobile platforms like armored vehicles and military patrol craft. The military VoIP-based ImP was designed with a software-defined radio infrastructure to enable the system to be customized to vehicle and mission type. Operating with a modular design, it supports decentralized user access to major tactical infrastructure networks.
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OpenPeak OpenTablet 7 Could Rival The Apple iPad?
My cargo pants, that is. Those big side pockets might be just the right size for this 7” multi-touch tablet from OpenPeak. The OpenTablet 7 (via SlashGear) is one of the better designed iPad competitors so far. It has a slick, simple design that manages to be minimalist and badass at the same time. Like the iPad and Notion Ink's Adam, I can easily see myself using this tablet comfortably.
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Asterisk PBX 1.2.39 Now Available
The Asterisk Development Team has announced the release of Asterisk PBX 1.2.39. This release is available for immediate download at
http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/
Asterisk 1.2.38 was created, but not released, to resolve two regression fixes caused by security updates. Prior to the release of Asterisk 1.2.38, one additional regression fix has been resolved, causing the release of Asterisk 1.2.39.
* Fixes regression caused by randomized call numbers. (Closes issue #15997) Reported by exarv. Patched by dvossel.
For a full list of changes in the current release, please see the ChangeLog:
http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/ChangeLog-1.2.39
Thank you for your continued support of Asterisk!
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Fugitive VoIP hacker admits 10 million minute deal for $1 million
A Miami hacker has admitted he pocketed more than $1m by selling millions of minutes of voice over IP calls and surreptitiously routing them through the networks of telecommunications companies. Edwin Andrew Pena pleaded guilty to two felonies in connection with the hacking spree, which spanned the years 2004 through 2006, according to court documents. He was apprehended last year in Mexico after skipping out on a $100,000 bond secured by the mother of his then girlfriend.
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Apple iPad:The Missing Features
There’s no doubt that the upcoming Apple iPad will kick the asses of all netbooks, tablet PCs, and e-readers, but it’s by far the perfect unit that we had hoped for from Apple. But then again, neither was the original iPhone. How could it have been better? Here’s a list of things we felt strongly about. Post yours in the comments section below. Please keep the tampon jokes to a minimum.
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Digium launches 'app store' for the Asterisk PBX
Ever since Apple adapted their wildly successfull iTunes music store to sell apps for the iPhone, technology vendors everywhere have been trying to find opportunities to replicate the innovation. Now Digium is launching AsteriskExchange--while not quite a true app store--it's a marketplace and reviews site for Asterisk's open source community.
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CounterPath Introduces Bria for Asterisk (SIP / VoIP Softphone Client)
CounterPath and Digium recently launched Bria for Asterisk, a co-branded VoIP softphone solution that’s pre-integrated with the open source Asterisk platform. Todd Carothers, vice president of product management at CounterPath, says the idea was to start by simply bringing the Bria Professional enterprise-grade softphone to Asterisk in as straightforward a manner as possible. "We’ve done interoperability testing against the Asterisk platform, particularly from a Digium perspective—and we have IM, video and presence available for the solution," he says.
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Apple Tablet "iSlate" Broadband Carrier Comparison
With news that Apple's new tablet computer could be available on both Verizon and AT&T's networks, the question becomes which carrier will offer users more bang for their bucks. Let's start with overall 3G coverage, where Verizon uses a CDMA-based EV-DO Rev. A network and AT&T uses a GSM-based HSPA network. As you probably know through Verizon's gleeful pummeling of AT&T with its "There's a Map for That" ads, AT&T's 3G network covers far less area than Verizon's.
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General Dynamics Receives NSA Certification for Sectera vIPer Phone with PSTN Support
The National Security Agency (NSA) has certified the Sectera vIPer Universal Secure Phone enabled with Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) connectivity for voice communications classified at the Top Secret level and below. The Sectera vIPer Phone with PSTN Connect allows U.S. military and government personnel to make both classified and unclassified calls using traditional telephone networks via one high-end office desktop phone. The Sectera vIPer Phone is a secure communication product manufactured by General Dynamics C4 Systems, a business unit of General Dynamics.
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DataJack launches USB modem with $40/month unlimited 3G data plans
If you want a USB modem that will provide mobile broadband access in the US, you’ll usually have to sign up for a 2 year contract and commit to paying $60 per month for up to 5GB of data transfers. Or, you can sign up for a new DataJack modem which costs about $100 up front and $40 per month thereafter for unlimited data. Oh yeah, and there’s no contract, so you could use the service for a month or two, cancel it, and then sign up again half a year later.
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Cisco Files to Patent to Enter the Search Engine Business
Editor's Note: Here's a novel idea, maybe there are websites that people want to be private and if they wanted the search engines to know about them then they would let them know. I think Cisco is making a pretty big assumption here. I would rather see the search engines themselves deploy this gear in their datacenters and use it for people doing searches on their indexes and use that data to do inclusions if at all. But I would not like to see this as a new standard deployed everywhere.
One of the limitations of search engines such as Google (GOOG) or Microsoft’s (MSFT) Bing that crawl the web looking for links is that they can only tell you about what they’ve finally come upon. That still leaves vast amounts of material as yet to be “discovered.” A patent application from Cisco (CSCO) suggests a clever way to help update the engines — and to make a manufacturer of network equipment an important part of yet another industry.
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VoIP racket busted and equipment seized
KATHMANDU: An investigation team dispatched from Metropolitan Police Crime Division raided a well-equipped underground call centre in Ravibhawan and arrested a racketeer for his involvement in flouting telecommunication laws recently.
The accused Anwar Hussein (24), who hails from Kolkata-24 Porguna, India, and his two accomplices were found to be operating VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) from a rented three-storey building, illegally blocking Nepal Telecom’s gateway, thus inflicting a loss of millions. While, the other accused, Bharat Lal Shrestha (27), hailing from Chaugada-3, Nuwakot, and another named Raju are at large. Raju’s details were still sketchy.
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Asterisk PBX 1.6.1.12 Now Available
The Asterisk Development Team has announced the release of Asterisk PBX 1.6.1.12.
This release is available for immediate download at
http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/
The release of Asterisk 1.6.1.12 resolved several issues reported by the community, and would have not been possible without your participation. Thank you!
* Fix multiple issues with musiconhold, which led to classes not getting
destroyed properly.
(closes issues #16279, #16207), reported by: parisioa, dcabot, patched by:
tilghman, tested by: parisioa, tilghman
* Fix compatibility with valgrind 3.3 and older.
(noticed in issue #16388), reported by: parisioa, patched by: atis, tested
by: atis, parisioa
* Prevent double closing of FDs by EIVR
(closes issue #16305), reported by: diLLec, patched, tested by: thedavidfactor
* Send ack (response/message) after receiving manager action userevent
(closes issue #16264), reported, patched by: dimas
* Make manager response to "Action: events" finish with empty line
(closes issue #16275), reported, patched by: vnovy
This release also contains significant improvements to T.38 support. Anyone who has tried T.38 faxing in the past should try again as most problems should now be resolved.
A summary of changes in this release can be found in the release summary:
http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/asterisk-1.6.1.12-summary.txt
For a full list of changes in this releases, please see the ChangeLog:
http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/ChangeLog-1.6.1.12
Thank you for your continued support of Asterisk!
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