Askozia is an embedded Asterisk distribution that I've been following for some time. Michael Iedema, the projects principle author, just posted an announcment that the project has reached its v1.0 release. Congratulations to all involved.
CMPs No Jitter blog as a good interview with Polycom's Ben Guderian, the Vice President for Product Marketing for WLAN voice products.
The next few days may be a little strange around here. I'm hoping to move this site from Wordpress.com to a commercial host. Hopefully I won't mess up the transition too much.
A short while I go I wrote a lament about how the better IP phones with large LCD displays are woefully underused. Specifically, they provide XHTML browsers that allow the phone to interact with online data sources.
Poking around online I found a company in Colorado that develops apps to leverage these features. Further, they make available a public example that you can access for your Polycom phone.
The TWiT guys posted a podcast with Mark Spencer just a couple of days back. Over an hour long. Pretty cool stuff. Mark's such a nice guy to be also such a visionary.
To me Magic Jack is completely boring on its own. $20/yr for unlimited calling in the US is ok. In fact, that's cheap. But needing to use your PC to run their soft phone client from that USB device is…