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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Digium’s Switchvox is already easy to configure but if you want the greatest in telephone system simplicity, try out the Switchvox phone configuration tool. It auto-discovers and provisions Polycom telephones making adding a phone a quick, painless process. Switchvox SMB includes 10 provisioning tokens; you can purchase additional tokens

The Polycom CX200 is billed as a desktop telephone for Microsoft Office Communicator Server (OCS). It is additionally a glorified speaker and microphone for a softphone. I tested the CX200 with eyeBeam 1.5.18.2 on a 15″ Apple MacBook Pro running OS X 10.5 connected to a

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

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

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 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

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

The Polycom Communicator is a device that is a little larger and twice as thick as an Apple iPhone. It has a speaker and two microphones as well as a USB cable to connect to your computer. It also has a standard audio jack on the side of the unit

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

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

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

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

I was very fortunate to test drive a beta version of the new Polycom Soundpoint IP450. I’ve been using it since October 27th and have been under NDA until now. So now that Polycom has formally released it, here are my thoughts: Let’s start with how I hooked