This past Sunday I just happened to see that snom had released firmware v1.16 for the m3 SIP/DECT phone. I took some time to have the phone update itself from snom's provisioning server. The process appeared to stall for quite…
Digium and Skype have partnered to provide a formal means of integrating the Skype and Asterisk worlds. It's possibly very exciting although it's early days yet, with a limited beta program just about to start. It seems to me that…
OK, so this is kinda funny. Clicking randomly around someone's site, as I occasionally do, I stumbled upon Big Web Phone who offers some insight into selecting VoIP services for the absolute beginner. One bit was a little humorous as…
For about the past week I’ve been making a lot of use of the Polycom C100 in conjunction with a copy of Eyebeam provided by ZipDX. The C100 is a great little USB speakerphone device. It was one of the first devices from Polycom the supported wideband audio, providing that you have a similarly capable soft phone client.
I must admit that mine is the C100S model which is designed to work with the Skype client, although there are models that are not client specific. As a practical matter the only functions that are client specific involve the use of the five buttons on the device. The buttons support volume up, volume down, place a call, bring the soft phone client to the foreground and mic mute.
Chris Heinrich over at VoIP Supply's VoIP Insider blog has a nice little post about selecting headsets for IP phones. They've faced the common problem of not knowing what type of connection each phone provides, making it difficult to know…
Two linemen from BG&E had to get onto my property to restore the power lines to my neighbors garage apartment. While they were doing the work I took them some cold bottled water and chatted them up about their experience working on the post-Ike recovery here in Texas. They tell about what-you-would-expect in terms of a tale of chaos theory.
They were working restoring power for Entergy customers in another area last week. Come Sunday they were done and so wondering where they’d go next. Centerpoint didn’t get around to accepting their help until 11pm Sunday night, at which point they were instructed to gather at the Humble Civic Center parking lot Monday morning.