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Happy Halloween: Google Puts the Final Nail in the Google Voice Coffin

Happy Halloween: Google Puts the Final Nail in the Google Voice Coffin

Friday, November 8, 2013

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Meet the new Microsoft: It’s Google! If you follow Nerd Vittles regularly, you’ll recall that five months ago we warned you to start packing your bags if you were a Google Voice user with PBX in a Flash. And, as a special Halloween treat, Google gave the open source community the finger. As of May 15, 2014, there will be no more XMPP support for Google Voice. So much for embracing the open source community. And, for all of you… Read More ›

Adventures in Twitterland: You Can't Make This Stuff Up

Adventures in Twitterland: You Can’t Make This Stuff Up

Thursday, November 7, 2013

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Today is Twitter’s Coming Out Party with what could be 2013’s Biggest IPO. By the closing bell today, the U.S. probably will have a couple new billionaires. As one commenter on USA Today’s site noted, "I can’t get into the IPO. I’m too busy tweeting." Unfortunately, we’re not. Having just returned from a quick visit to New York earlier this week, we were greeted by the following message when we logged into our Twitter account: Why is my account suspended?… Read More ›

The Definitive VoIP Quick Start Guide: Introducing PBX in a Flash 2.0.6.4.5

The Definitive VoIP Quick Start Guide: Introducing PBX in a Flash 2.0.6.4.5

Monday, October 28, 2013

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What a difference a year makes in the VoIP World! We now have a rock-solid, reliable Asterisk® 11 release and an equally stable FreePBX 2.11 on which to build state-of-the-art VoIP servers. If you’re new to the VoIP community, watch this video before you proceed. Now let us welcome you to the World of PBX in a Flash™. This is our best release ever whether you’re a total newbie or an experienced Asterisk developer. You can’t really appreciate what goes… Read More ›

The 5-Minute PBX: PIAF-Green Virtual Machine for Windows, Mac, or Linux

The 5-Minute PBX: PIAF-Green Virtual Machine for Windows, Mac, or Linux

Tuesday, October 22, 2013

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In our never-ending trek to build the Perfect PBX™, we have a sneak peek for you today of the soon-to-be-released PBX in a Flash™ 2.0.6.4.5 featuring CentOS® 6.4 LAMP stack (32-bit), Asterisk® 11.5.1, and FreePBX® 2.11.0.11. The 2.0.6.4.5 release also has a number of new security patches including a new Linux kernel that’s been patched to eliminate the reported zero-day vulnerability. Once you download today’s appliance, you can have a turnkey PBX running under VirtualBox® on almost any desktop computer… Read More ›

It's An Oligopoly, Stupid: What's Wrong with Comcast Business Class Internet?

It’s An Oligopoly, Stupid: What’s Wrong with Comcast Business Class Internet?

Tuesday, October 15, 2013

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Let’s begin with what sounds like a fairy tale but turns out to be a nightmare. After watching your country invest hundreds of millions of dollars in taxpayer-subsidized infrastructure, you’ve finally decided it’s time to buy your own car. You visit the only car dealer in town and are told that all vehicles are leased, not sold, for a period of three years. Cars come in three models. Would you like a 200, 300, or 400 horsepower engine? You opt… Read More ›

AstriCon 10: WOW! What a Coming Out Party for Asterisk 12!

AstriCon 10: WOW! What a Coming Out Party for Asterisk 12!

Friday, October 11, 2013

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It was the tenth anniversary of AstriCon in Atlanta this week with an SRO crowd, and what a week it was. Comparing Asterisk® 12 to Asterisk 11 and previous iterations would be much like comparing Windows 8 to Windows 3.1. Facelift doesn’t begin to describe the metamorphosis. There’s a brand new (robust) SIP implementation featuring PJSIP, and a new restful interface known as ARI that lets you get at all of the Asterisk internals with a simple web command. You… Read More ›

Finally a 100% Portable PBX: Introducing GoIP, a SIP-GSM Gateway for Asterisk

Finally a 100% Portable PBX: Introducing GoIP, a SIP-GSM Gateway for Asterisk

Monday, September 30, 2013

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How far we have come! The original Asterisk® claim to fame was its ability to interface with proprietary phone systems and legacy telephony hardware, the glue that literally kept companies stuck to their overpriced PBXs. And, just as wired phone systems began to lose their edge, along came the Bell Sisters to introduce cellular communications with billing that began when the phone started ringing and an end to toll-free calling and extra fees for text messaging on top of exorbitantly… Read More ›

The 5-Minute PBX: Introducing PIAF-Green Virtual Machine for VMware ESXi

The 5-Minute PBX: Introducing PIAF-Green Virtual Machine for VMware ESXi

Tuesday, September 24, 2013

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In our never-ending trek to build the Perfect PBX™, we have another installment for you today featuring VMware’s just released vSphere Hypervisor 5.5 (ESXi). And, yes, there’s still a free ESXi version with a free license available here. But, unlike VirtualBox, you’ll need a dedicated (beefy) server on which to install ESXi. Be sure to register on the site and obtain then install the unrestricted license, or you’re SOL after the short eval period. We’ve built an ESXi appliance which… Read More ›

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