VoiceCon Orlando 2009 My VoiceCon Orlando plans are all set. I’m flying in on Monday, just in time for the show’s opening, and leaving just before the show closes on Wednesday. I’m staying at the Gaylord Palms (And the winner for worst hotel name ever goes to… I understand that
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Why does $2.99 feel expensive on iTunes? I’ve been wrestling with purchasing a $2.99 application from the Apple iTunes store for a few days now. And I can’t answer the question why really… I’ve certainly spent WAY more money on much more frivolous and wasteful things. Heck I’ve spent more on a
It's not just me... This video is a perfect summation of how I feel about twitter… It’s a hilarious 4 minutes on the absurdity of it all. Granted it’s a little extreme, but for the most part it hits the nail on the head. Props to Tom Keating from TMC posting it
Follow ME on twitter, who would do that? Well maybe YOU would… And now you can… For some reason…? Let me explain… It’s really a love vs. hate thing with me and the social networking app: I both love and detest the overall concept of twitter. So I have stayed away from it for as long as
Telecom Stimulus Package and more... While the boys are back in Phoenix working hard, I’ve (chromiszach) been on an Eastern Caribbean cruise sucking back Mai Tai’s and UV rays. I’ve had a great trip so far and have done some really cool stuff including an underwater scooter experience that was out of
Finally some news about Skype for Asterisk Beta While Chromis didn’t make the cut to be included on the Skype for Asterisk Beta, the guys over at the Adhearsion did. Jason Goecke talked about the experience on his Warheads Stacked in the Kitchen blog site this morning. Digium also gave an update yesterday via one of their
Astricon 2009 will again be held in Chromis' backyard I had a conversation in a hotel bar with Danny Windham, CEO of Digium, a few weeks ago in Miami during the IT Expo. We got to talking about Phoenix, Arizona (Chromis Technology’s hometown) and the subject of Astricon came up. He asked me if I had attended, since
Chromis and ADTRAN sign partnership agreement We’re very selective at Chromis Technology about whose products we’ve chosen to represent and in turn sell to our customer base. Digium, that’s a no brainer, they’re THE Asterisk company. Polycom, everyone knows they make the best handsets out there. Jabra… I think you get my
Weavver's VoiceScribe released in beta I hate signing NDA’s, but I will when I have to. And it’s not the legalities behind them, it’s that when your discussion is under the NDA umbrella, it’s usually something really cutting edge and interesting that you’re talking about. And I like talking about
Ask and ye shall receive... I really love when companies that I don’t think are completely approachable completely prove me wrong… Well that’s how I feel about TMC this week, I received a response from Greg Galitzine, Editorial Director of INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine, via his blog regarding the Best in Show award that
ITEXPO East 2009 Attendance Up 15% Well, I didn’t win the Jeep this year at ITExpo… One of the 8,309 people that did attend drove it home… It’s no surprise to me that the attendance numbers for this year’s ITExpo were up 15%. I was busy the whole show and barely had
Switchvox 4.0 really hits the mark So I don’t have time to get into great editorial detail, but I want to break down the new features of Switchvox 4.0… Keep in mind that I’m only talking about the new features that they have added, you still get the same amazing features it had
Interactive Intelligence's Best of Show Award confusion So I feel I need to clear up the the stink that I caused with Interactive Intelligence and their Best In Show Award that was issued to them by the show’s editors for “Best SMB Solution”. As I mentioned in the previous blog post, InIn was given the award
IT Expo Wrap-up - Day 2 After a lack of time and an annoyance with my iPhone and the WordPress application, I decided to just give a general wrap up of yesterday’s events… I was able to catch the tail end of the Service Provider Roundtable moderated by Andy Abramson. Companies participating in the discussion
I have arrived in Miami for IT Expo East 2009 After a bumpy flight from sunny Phoenix to sunny Miami, I have arrived at the 2009 IT Expo. I have already met several big players in the VoIP game including Digium CTO, and Asterisk creator Mark Spencer (while checking into the hotel of all places) and several Polycom representatives. Switchvox
Everything is for sale at Nortel Unless you’ve lived under a telecom news rock, you’ve undoubtedly heard the news about Nortel’s bankruptcy filing last week. The company officially calls it “Business and Financial Restructuring“… But you know things are bad when they’re even having to sell their race cars at auction… I
Congratulations to the "Product of the Year" Award Winners TMC announced the 11th Annual INTERNET TELEPHONY Product of the Year Award winners last week. We’d like to extend congratulations to our partners, Digium, Jabra and Polycom on their inclusion to the list. Digium’s Switchvox SMB 3.5, Jabra’sM5390 Multiuse Headset, andPolycom’s SoundStation IP 7000 were
Chromis How To: Polycom EHS with Jabra Headsets There is always a lot of confusion as to how to add an Electronic Hook Switch (EHS) Cable to Polycom phones and Jabra Headsets. Anytime someone has ordered one from Chromis, we receive a call on how to make it work. The instructions that come with the cable are a
Skype Lite Java client announced Skype announced the availability of Skype 1.0 Beta for Intel-based Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs) at CES yesterday. OK so what does that mean? Well for starters, it means a whole slew of devices will now be able to support the Java-based Skype Lite platform. So Nokia, Motorola, Samsung, and
Join ME at ITEXPO East 2009 I just booked my flights and accommodations for ITEXPO East 2009 on February 2-4, 2009 at the Miami Beach Convention Center in Miami, Florida. I’m flying in Monday and leaving Wednesday afternoon staying at the conference hotel, The Royal Palm Resort. If you’d like to meet with me
Open Source is still on the rise It will be a year ago, tomorrow, that Digium announced 1 million downloads for 2007. This morning Digium announced that Asterisk was downloaded 1.5 million times in 2008, more than any other year in company history and 50 percent higher than last year. For a company that is less
Stay on top of industry news on your iPhone with TMC In addition to their print products, TMCnet.com is a great source for communications industry news, from VoIP hardware and software, to open source telephony, to the enterprise call center space and everything in between, they cover most everything. But again like their printed products and any other magazine you
Asterisk gets a blackeye thanks to the FBI and PC Magazine... There’s been a lot of talk about Asterisk being easily hacked thanks to this PC Magazine article. I first became aware of it through the VoIP Insider Blog post by Garrett Smith. But I think Rich Tehrani from TMC best explained the whole situation in this blog post. In
Chromis Review: fring for iphone The reason fring has people [talking](http://www.smithonvoip.com/voip-product-reviews/fring-iphone-review/) is that it is the first application to offer mobile VoIP across different platforms. fring is described as: a mobile internet service and community that allows users to access and interact with a variety of communication services such
