Archive for March, 2006
Looking for a free open source IP telephony solution but Asterisk is a little too complex? Check out PBX4LINUX. Though not as feature-rich and extensible as Asterisk, this software is still very useable for your daily PBX needs. For a complete list of features look here.
Among the features are voicemail, encryption of external calls, call recording and conference calling.
Since PBX4LINUX has its roots in Germany (Europe) it has strong support voor cheap ISDN cards that let you connect to a ISDN PSTN or use your old ISDN equipment with VoIP.
March 28th, 2006
I was going to write that Yahoo has released a new beta of their messenger software, now including the ability to make PC-to-Phone calls “at ridiculously low rates “ (this is a quote from their homepage).
After trying out the new beta (version 7.5) myself, I decided not to pay too much attention to it. It’s just another propriety IM client extended with some locked-in voip termination service.
To make things worse, you won’t be able to make calls to other sip uri’s. Just to other yahoo-users or to POTS (after buying some credits from their Phone Out service). So you can forget calling to for example to freeworlddialup.
When are we going to get a descent IM client based on open standards (think Jabber, XMPP) that allows you to create (multiple) SIP accounts of your own choice.
If anyone knows of any, please drop me a note!
March 23rd, 2006
Eqo is a free (during the beta at least) application that makes it possible to use Skype from your mobile phone. It consists of two applications. One will be running on your PC, the other on your GPRS enabled Java mobile phone. When someone wants to talk to you by skype, the call will be rerouted to your mobile using SkypeOut credits. If you want to call a skype user from your mobile phone, dial the user from the java applet, and eqo will setup the call.
Since this will cost you SkypeOut credits and GPRS as well, this is not totally free, but at least te software is. Nice concept, but I rather use my wifi-enabled PDA with pocketSkype.
March 17th, 2006
Ekiga 2.00, named “The Oberoi Release”, is here!
Ekiga, formally known as gnomemeeting, is no longer in beta. After more than a year of hard work 2.00 final is released, together with a brand new website. Ekiga is ready for download here.
Quote from Ekiga.org:
“Ekiga is a SIP and H.323 compatible VoIP, IP Telephony, and Video Conferencing application that allows you to make audio and video calls to remote users with SIP or H.323 hardware and software. It supports all modern VoIP features for both SIP and H.323.”
March 13th, 2006
Dutch Telecom and VoIP Provider KPN is warning their customers that they may be unreachable when using the supplied modem (Named the ‘Experiabox’, a rebranded siemens device) together with peer2peer filesharing applications. The Experiabox seems to have some problems handling the multiple connections that p2p-applications tend to setup.
March 11th, 2006
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