VoIP Tech Chat posted a nice little script for putting a quick, no frills weather report directly onto your Polycom Microbrowser.
To view the code, download the files, or just see the script, go to VoIP Tech Chat (dot com).
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Everyone has them — and here’s Team Forrest’s version of a Caller ID to Name (CNAM, CIDNAME, etc.) lookup using AnyWho, Google, and 411.com. The first file is the calleridname.pl:
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On Sunday December 29th, 2008, Level 3 (one of the nation’s largest Internet backbone providers) suffered a slight disruption — causing issues to sites such as Amazon, ESPN, and CNN.
VoIP Tech Chat posted an opinion piece regarding Level 3’s handling of the outage. And, as with most opinion pieces from VoIP Tech Chat, we like [...]
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Asterisk® (a registered trademark of Digium, Inc.) simply makes sense. Take one part open source software, one part VoIP, one part PBX, and combine. What do you have? A software so popular, more than 1.5 million downloads occurred in 2008 alone.
Team Forrest can help you implement an Asterisk solution to fit your exact needs. Popular [...]
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Recently, the FBI issued an advisory warning users that Asterisk (the open source VoIP / PBX software) could be compromised and then used in vishing attacks. First, If you are running an old verison of Asterisk, you should upgrade to the newer one. Any Team Forrest client that is concerned should contact helpme@teamforrest.com for a [...]
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The VoIP Users Conference gathers weekly on Fridays to discuss all things VoIP. Free, and open to the public, participants can listen live or download archived recordings.
There are three main ways to access the live conference:
via SIP directly
via PSTN (see below for the number)
via the Talkshoe client
Recently, several participants experienced difficulties in connecting to the [...]
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VoIP Tech Chat posted an interesting article regarding the expected increase of VoIP in the residential market. The article discusses the switch of residential users from such providers as Verizon and at&t to cable companies, VoIP providers, and cellular services.
While many Residential users may want to use a simple service such as those provided by [...]
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AstriCon, the official conference for the Asterisk PBX system, starts Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008. Fred Posner will be attending AstriCon this year and looks forward to meeting fellow users, developers, and fans of the Asterisk software.
If you are attending AstriCon, please give Fred a call at 212-937-7844 x501.
AstriCon is sponsored by many big names in [...]
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Sam Houston State University (over in Texas) has just switched from Cisco Call Manager over to Asterisk. We love it. Team Forrest proudly uses Asterisk and this action only shows what we’ve been saying for a while. Asterisk is an amazing, cost effective product.
A great write up is over at Asterisk VoIP News (it’s a [...]
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A hacker used an old-school technique to hack into the FEMA voicemail system and make $12,000.00 worth of calls to the Middle East and Asia. FEMA, which is under the Deparment of Homeland Security, should be very thankful to Sprint; it was Sprint that noticed the calls and stopped long distance access.
Lessons learned? If you’re [...]
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