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H.323 Version 7 Approved

November 6, 2009

The ITU has approved H.323 Version 7.

ITU-T SG16 completed work on H.323 version 7 in November 2009. As indicated previously, changes to the base specifications H.323, H.225.0, and H.245 were intentionally kept to a minimum. Nonetheless, a number of new important features were introduced. Additionally, the ITU continued to evolve the world’s most widely-used multimedia [...]

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Digium Acquires SwitchVox

September 27, 2007

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” [...]

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Truphone Hacks iPhone

September 26, 2007

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 [...]

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ATAComm Ceases Operation

September 23, 2007

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 [...]

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Truth in Caller ID Act of 2007 – No More Caller ID Spoofing?

June 28, 2007

Today The US Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation has passed S.704, a bill that would make it illegal for anyone within the United States to spoof their caller ID, “with misleading or inaccurate caller identification information…in connection with any telecommunications service or IP-enabled voice service.”
The bill specifically exempts law enforcement and provides a [...]

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