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Celebrating 2019: Return of the One-Minute Desktop PBX

Celebrating 2019: Return of the One-Minute Desktop PBX

Monday, January 7, 2019

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If you’re new to the VoIP world and aren’t quite ready to dive into the Nerd Vittles cloud computing offerings, then we have a one minute setup solution today that doesn’t require you to buy anything ever. You can use almost any desktop computer you already own to bring up the VirtualBox® edition of Incredible PBX® in less than 60 seconds. If you’ve followed Nerd Vittles over the years, you already know that VirtualBox from Oracle® is one of our… Read More ›

A Sobering Look at Asterisk and the 2019 VoIP Landscape

A Sobering Look at Asterisk and the 2019 VoIP Landscape

Monday, December 17, 2018

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Every six months or so we like to gaze into our crystal ball for a quick look at the VoIP landscape. 2018 has been quite the transformative year with the acquisition of Digium® and Asterisk® by Sangoma®. Unfortunately, as we predicted, the Digium layoffs have already begun, and 2019 may only get worse. While we have no inside information, we wouldn’t be surprised to see Digium’s headquarters in Huntsville closed within six months in an effort to balance the books.… Read More ›

Skyetel Smorgasborg: SMS Blasting, SMS Dictator, and more

Skyetel Smorgasborg: SMS Blasting, SMS Dictator, and more

Monday, December 10, 2018

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Just in time for Santa, we’ve got a great treat for those of you that have taken advantage of the Nerd Vittles special offer from Skyetel which gets you a $50 credit on their powerful VoIP platform. Today we’re adding not one, but three, SMS messaging utilities to the Incredible PBX UC platform. Effective 10/1/2023, $25/month minimum spend required. In addition to a command line utility to send SMS messages, we’re also introducing SMS Message Blasting which lets you send… Read More ›

Spam Phone Call Blocker and CNAM Caching for FreePBX

Spam Phone Call Blocker and CNAM Caching for FreePBX

Monday, November 26, 2018

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Blocking spam phone calls has been a challenge to put it charitably. Thanks to some earlier work by Stewart Nelson on the DSLR forum as well as Stewart’s considerable hand-holding in the development of today’s tutorial, we want to introduce a new approach to blocking these calls. The way it works is first time callers that pass the TrueCNAM SPAM check will be prompted to "press 5 to connect." Since most spam calls sit in a queue for several seconds… Read More ›

R.I.P. GVSIP: A Final Farewell to Google Voice

R.I.P. GVSIP: A Final Farewell to Google Voice

Friday, November 16, 2018

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It’s been a death by a thousand cuts, but today marks the end of the Google Voice era with Asterisk®. Since Google removed XMPP support and transitioned to their new GVSIP platform, many have held out hope that Google hadn’t moved to a purely commercial platform with their ObiHai deal. Yesterday, the head of the Google Voice project requested that all Asterisk GVSIP implementations be discontinued citing Google’s Terms of Service. We hinted this was coming back in July and… Read More ›

Free Asterisk Voicemail Transcription with IBM Watson STT

Free Asterisk Voicemail Transcription with IBM Watson STT

Monday, November 12, 2018

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There are many commercial voicemail transcription services for Asterisk® PBXs, but none hold a candle to the speech-to-text (STT) quality of the IBM Cloud offering known as Watson® STT, formerly known as Bluemix TTS. Despite a recent price increase that takes effect in December, the pricing remains competitive. On the Standard Pricing Plan, voicemail transcription is 2¢ per minute. Or you can try things out on the LITE plan which offers 100 minutes a month at no cost. When the… Read More ›

Road Warrior's Advice: Before You Buy a Tesla...

Road Warrior’s Advice: Before You Buy a Tesla…

Thursday, November 8, 2018

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They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but we also have a thousand final words to share about our two-year Tesla experience. Let me preface this by saying that overall our Tesla adventure was fun, but we’ve always enjoyed being a pioneer. If you don’t, look elsewhere. We got our Tesla just after Elon Musk released his full self-driving (FSD) video in late 2016. While Elon is certainly a visionary, he’s also a snake oil salesman and the… Read More ›

FusionPBX on Steroids: Text-to-Speech Apps Have Arrived

FusionPBX on Steroids: Text-to-Speech Apps Have Arrived

Monday, September 24, 2018

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SECURITY ALERT: https://securityboulevard.com/2019/06/rce-using-caller-id-multiple-vulnerabilities-in-fusionpbx/ And you thought you needed an Asterisk® PBX for your users to enjoy FREE text-to-speech applications such as current News Headlines and Weather reports from the convenience of their telephone. Well, move over Asterisk. FusionPBX™ for FreeSWITCH™ now offers virtually identical functionality with all of the terrific advantages that FusionPBX provides: reliability, updates, performance, security and an unmatched UC platform with no rivals. To get started, make sure you have completed the steps in our FusionPBX introductory… Read More ›

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