I am one of many speakers at The Last HOPE conference starting Friday July 18th at the historic Pennsylvania Hotel in New York City.
Blake Cornell and I will be discussing how many foreign governments and ISPs are blocking VoIP services in attempt to protect their monopoly and/or to censor information. We intend to release […]

It seems The Asterisk Development team has been working overtime to really crank out the code. Great work guys!

The Asterisk.org development team has released version 1.6.0 Beta 4.

This release contains the following improvements:

12020, a CLI formatting improvement
11964, added the ability to get the original called number on SS7 calls
11873, Added core API […]

The Asterisk Development Team has released the third beta for Asterisk 1.6.

Added an ‘n’ option to SpeechBackground to request that the channel not get answered
Added a number of new manager actions to improve configuration management over the Asterisk Manager Interface, including the ability to:

List the categories in a file.
Get the contents of a single category.
Empty […]

Digium, today announced the one millionth download of Asterisk in 2007.
From the press release:
Open source Asterisk continues to revolutionize the VoIP market by giving companies a cheaper and more flexible alternative to proprietary solutions. The 2007 introduction of Digium’s Asterisk Appliance (AA50) based on Embedded Asterisk Business Edition successfully combined the cost savings and flexibility […]

I am totally behind in reporting this, but my Grand Mother has been in CCU for the past few days, so I haven’t been paying much attention to the outside world.
Google has announced the $10M Android Challenge, which provides $10 million in awards for developers who build great applications for Android.
This comes on the […]

In a huge decision handed down late yesterday, the FCC voted to (pdf warning) expand local number portability (LNP) rules to include VoIP services. This provides consumers the explicit right to keep the same, familiar phone number when switching to a new telephone service provider.
The FCC also clarified the regulations, stating that telephone companies […]

Asterisk VoIP News has a great article detailing how Asterisk is taking over the enterprise.
From the article:

“Some of the most compelling data that we collected was simply around the wide variety of applications that Asterisk is now being used to address,” said Terry Atwood, vice president of sales, marketing and customer care at PIKA. “Of […]

Just over a month ago Packet8 issued a press release stating that it had signed an agreement with a service provider that will soon exit the VoIP market. This agreement calls for the exclusive recommendation of Packet8 as the replacement VoIP service for its soon-to-be-orphaned subscribers.
Today I am now seeing reports that NetZero intends to […]

One month after Digium acquired SwitchVox, Digium announces the immediate availability of a free version of SwitchVox.
From the Press Release:
The new product includes the telephony features of the widely used Switchvox SOHO edition and can be downloaded and installed in minutes on existing hardware. The release underscores Digium’s commitment to delivering full-featured telephony systems at […]

Sipera VIPER Lab has disclosed multiple threat advisories for users of VoIP services and equipment from Vonage, Globe7 and Grandstream.
From the Press Release:

Sipera VIPER Lab determined the Vonage VoIP Motorola Phone Adapter (VT 2142-VD) and Vonage service implementations leave users vulnerable to a form of VoIP identity theft, allowing hackers to take over a user’s […]