Keeping your analog umbilical cord
Friday, August 17th, 2007
When we deploy VoIP systems with our customers, we usually recommend them to keep at least a few of their analog or ISDN lines. Many of them are surprised as they expect a VoIP system to be all IP based, they also wonder how they are going to save costs if they keep their existing lines. But keeping a link to the Plain Old Telephone System can be more interesting than you think.
If you’ve installed a Voice over IP system, chances are you’re using it to cater for your company’s telecommuters. Because, thanks to VoIP, employees are now completely set free and - most of them anyway - are able to work wherever they are. In a way, VoIP is really the last link in the chain to make mobile work fully equivalent to office work, laptops and virtual private networks already enabled the biggest part.
It’s been a little over a month since we released our last update and we figured it was time for a new one. This latest update is filled with requests we’ve been getting lately and includes support for dial by name, fixed timezones, external access to services (*xx codes) and much more. You can download the update yourself
It seems the much awaited Google phone is finally coming. Though there’s no official confirmation from Google yet, industry analysts already seem to know a thing or two about the gPhone. Google apparently contracted Taiwanese smartphone manufacturer High Tech Computing (HTC), widely known for its Windows based phones (previously sold under the Qtek brand).