Digium Acquires SwitchVox

Digium has acquired San Diego based, Four Loop Technologies, the makers of SwitchVox, a powerful Asterisk-based PBX platform for small to medium sized enterprises. With over 1400 installations in more than 20 countries, SwitchVox will benefit from the exposure and continued development assistance that Digium can provide.
“It will be business as usual for SwitchVox” [...]

Truphone Hacks iPhone

Alex Saunders pointed out that Truphone Hacked iPhone to allow VoIP calls via WiFi.
The process is still very rough and CLI based, but a beta release of a more streamlined process is scheduled for release sometime later this month.
Truephone is in attendance here at Astricon and I believe they will be demonstrating the new [...]

ATAComm Ceases Operation

I just noticed that ATAComm and its parent company, Ataractic Corporation, has ceased operations.
Over the years, I have had many confrontations with ‘atacomm’ on the Asterisk IRC channel, although I have never met the actual person behind the IRC alias.
On numerous occasions ‘he’ would login to the Asterisk IRC channel and complain about Digium and/or [...]