We all knew that Skype can be used to do internet telephony, videoconferencing and conference call. But now you can use it to watch tv.
This Japanese site streams Japanese tv channels to Skype. Not of very much use to everyone but kinda fun anyway. This is how it works: Add dokotv1, dokotv2,dokotv3, active_test,active_test_2 or active_test_3 to your contact list and call them.
Streaming will start right away. You can even switch channels by sending ##<channel number>#. Look for a list of channels on the website.
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August 29th, 2006
Voipbuster, also known as the “free calls company”, has changed it credit policy. Until now, your credit would expire 120 days after you bought it. But now it will stay valid forever. While this may sound as great news, may be it isn’t. The same time they introduced the so called “Freedays”: 120 days of free calling to landlines and mobiles labeled “free” in the tariffs list. After 120 days, you’ll start paying for the countries that where free until now.
Also, free calling is limited to 300 minutes a week.
I guess the days of free calling are over. Lucky for us, there are always some alternatives like skype, gizmoproject and freeworlddialup.
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August 29th, 2006
I already wrote about the service gtalk2voip, a gateway that enables you to connect to any sip number from gtalk. Now this gateway has expanded its services so now you can call Windows Live Messenger as well. It works almost the same as connecting to a sip device, but now you enter the command ´CALL someone@msn.com’ or ‘CALL someone@hotmail.com’. MSN and Hotmail addresses are automatically recognized. Other addressed need to be prefixed by ‘msn:’ (like ‘CALL msn:someone@somethingelse.com’).
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August 26th, 2006
While Asterisk is the better known PBX, it might not be best fit for your needs. Maybe it’s too complex for the simple things you would like to accomplish. Than it might be a good idea to look at the alternatives.
- PBX4LINUX
PBX4LINUX is a PBX for Linux with strong ISDN support but also has a VoIP gateway. It can be uses as a ISDN <–> VoIP gateway.
- FREESWITCH
Freeswitch is a software switch that can connect phone lines from different networks using different protocols. While not a PBX by itself, several modules could be loaded to gain the same functionality.
- SIPfoundry sipX PBX
sipX is an open source PBX phone system with enterprise features like voice mail distribution lists and hunt groups.
Next to Asterisk, Freeswitch seems to have the most active development. With it´s GoogleTalk jingle implementation it´s even a little ahead of Asterisk.
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August 22nd, 2006
In this very short notice the freeswitch project announces that they’ve updated some modules to speak the new GoogleTalk protocol in high-definition (16khz) audio. Using this software telephony switch you will be able to interface gtalk to other applications like IVR, or to other protocols like SIP and H.323. It’s available for download for Linux, OpenBSD and Windows.
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August 21st, 2006
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