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One phone does it all.
I have recently upgraded my mobile phone to a Nokia E51, partly because I wanted to test out it’s potential as a SIP extension on our Asterisk network. This, of course, opens up the possibility of having one phone that you use whether you are in the office, on the road, or even at home. [...]
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The customer comes first, right?
From “The Open Sourcerer” blog (a good read by the way), is news of Microsoft’s warm and cuddly attitude to world domination.
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Free web filtering
In a prior existence as an IT Manager, I implemented a Websense server on our network, primarily to monitor website usage and enforce our internet use policy. It was, and probably still is, a very good product offering a huge level of detail on who is accessing what on the network.
For a small business, however, [...]
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Open for all
Open source software is a bit of a buzzword (buzzphrase?) at the moment, and rightly so. Considering that the majority of the world’s websites run on open source software (servers running the suite of applications known collectively as LAMP - Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) and that the Firefox web browser continues to erode Microsoft’s Internet [...]
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A new way to sell laptops
Most people nowadays have a mobile phone (cellular if you’re the wrong side of the pond), and whilst many stump up the full whack for their handset and then stick a pay-as-you-go SIM in, a sizeable percentage (in the UK at least) have the cost of their handset heavily subsidised by opting for a 12 [...]
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When Asterisk goes wrong
Yesterday I received in the post some information from a company (who shall remain unnamed) in the public sector who had put out an Invitation To Tender (ITT) for a new, VoIP-enabled telephone system. The ITT itself contained very little information indeed about their requirements, as is often the case. However, it did mention the [...]
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Dell to sell VoIP
From VentureVoIP comes news that Dell are going to supply SME’s with Fonality’s Asterisk-based VoIP system - PBXtra. Details of the arrangement are sketchy at the moment, but already there are murmerings of doubt amidst the obvious conclusion that this is a strong deal for Fonality and potentially for the SME market worldwide, 35 million [...]
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New website
The Four Lakes Consulting website has been updated and is now much more flexible and packed with content, constructed as it is using the wonderful open source content management system, Joomla.
Currently the extra content is a bit limited, but expect to see more articles and offers over the coming weeks and months. In addition, the [...]
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Another Skype outage
From the Asterisk VoIP News blog comes an ongoing story detailing issues that certain Skype-oriented hard phones are having problems connecting to the Skype network. Not an awful lot of information on it just yet…but following on the widely reported Skype network outage not that long ago this is another faux pas for Skype.
Whatever happened [...]
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Tomato?.again !
No sooner does one appear, than another follows close behind. Tomato 1.11 has appeared. All usual disclaimers apply.
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