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Amerika the Beautiful: An Insider's View of What Went Wrong and How To Fix It

Amerika the Beautiful: An Insider’s View of What Went Wrong and How To Fix It

Monday, June 17, 2013

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UPDATE: Following a week of almost daily new disclosures, we are republishing our original article with some additional observations from us and others who have been following what will almost certainly turn out to be one of the most shocking and important revelations in the history of our republic. Much of this story has unfolded on Twitter, one of the few companies that stood up to the government and refused to participate in the PRISM data collection enterprise. So it… Read More ›

The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly: 2013 Cellphone Navigation Guide

The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly: 2013 Cellphone Navigation Guide

Thursday, June 6, 2013

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Every year or so we like to take a fresh look at the cell phone landscape and reassess what makes the most sense for business, personal, and family use in terms of cost, functionality, and performance. Last year’s favorite based upon both cost and feature set was StraightTalk which offered unlimited talk, text, and data (sort of) on either the AT&T or T-Mobile network for $45 a month. Since that article was released, StraightTalk has quietly dropped the AT&T offering… Read More ›

Here We Go Again: Getting Ready for the Next Google Voice Train Wreck

Here We Go Again: Getting Ready for the Next Google Voice Train Wreck

Monday, June 3, 2013

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Self-inflicted wounds are nothing new in the technology business, but Google spent much of last week working hard to take top honors for what is clearly one of the most selfish and short-sighted moves ever in the telecommunications marketplace. Less than a week after extolling the values of open source technology during Google I/O 20131, Google wasted little time performing a complete 180 by deep sixing further support of the open source XMPP protocol for messaging and VoIP communications. With… Read More ›

The Week That Was: The PIAF Forum Returns

The Week That Was: The PIAF Forum Returns

Thursday, May 23, 2013

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What a week! If you read last week’s article, you already know that our hosting provider’s server experienced a 2-disk RAID failure (according to them) a week ago. Unbeknowst to us, the provider had discontinued making backups of domains that had grown beyond 10 gigabytes in size. That impacted the main PBX in a Flash site, pbxinaflash.com, as well as the PIAF Forum which is hosted on that site. Beginning last Friday, we set up an alternative site on Google+.… Read More ›

Lessons Learned: An Update on Our Server Outage

Lessons Learned: An Update on Our Server Outage

Friday, May 17, 2013

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It’s been a busy couple of days following the double whammy of two RAID drive failures on Wednesday morning. We wanted to provide an interim update on where things stand. We share a dedicated server with a couple of other folks. The server is managed and maintained by WestNIC out of New York but physically resides in a data center in Dallas. Even with state-of-the-art hardware, things go wrong. And a dual drive failure made things worse, much worse. The… Read More ›

The SIPaholic's Dream Come True: Introducing Anveo Direct

The SIPaholic’s Dream Come True: Introducing Anveo Direct

Monday, May 6, 2013

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We’re incredibly happy with the current list of providers that we recommend to PBX in a Flash™ users for VoIP trunking. At the top of our list is Vitelity, a leading VoIP provider that has been a major contributor to the Nerd Vittles and PBX in a Flash projects for many years. But, as often happens, one of our gurus on the PIAF Forum comes up with a terrific discovery that we just can’t wait to pass along. This week… Read More ›

It's Baaaaack: Skype Returns to PBX in a Flash with Asterisk 11 and FreeSwitch

It’s Baaaaack: Skype Returns to PBX in a Flash with Asterisk 11 and FreeSwitch

Friday, April 26, 2013

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It’s been a long road, but we finally have a reliable Skype™ implementation for Asterisk® 11. Ironically, it uses components from ArchLinux™ as well as FreeSwitch™. But, hey, it works! It sounds great. And it lets you talk (for free) to over a half billion of your closest friends around the world. So today we present a Skype solution that works with a full-featured PBX. It can run on any Windows®, Mac®, or Linux® Desktop using the PIAF-Green™ Virtual Machine… Read More ›

The Definitive VoIP Quick Start Guide: Introducing PBX in a Flash 2.0.6.4.3

The Definitive VoIP Quick Start Guide: Introducing PBX in a Flash 2.0.6.4.3

Friday, April 19, 2013

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Each time we release a new version of PBX in a Flash™, I’m reminded of one of my favorite childhood books and one of the best mottos of all time: "I Think I Can!" You can’t really appreciate what goes into an open source product like PBX in a Flash until you try doing it yourself. The sad part is we and the CentOS™ development team are part of a dwindling few non-commercial entities that still are in the open… Read More ›

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