Last month Skype announced an agreement with Digium, the primary developer of the asterisk open-source IP-PBX software, to enable Skype from Asterisk. What this means is that one could make skype calls, even long distance and International telephone calls, from your office office phone as well as receive skype calls on your office phone. The [...]
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5 reasons why VoIP providers will go Bust
Recent news has highlighted that VoIP service provider SunRocket has gone bust. This is no case of bad management – more and more VoIP providers will fall off the face of the earth in the coming months and years. Before getting into the why and the who, let’s look at the different types of VoIP [...]
Mandriva Linux says no Patent deal with Microsoft
Mandriva, the company formerly known as Mandrakesoft, that publishes the Mandriva GNU/Linux operating system says on a posting on the company blog by CEO François Bancilhon that there will be no cross-licensing pact with Microsoft. Mandriva has offices in the U.S., France, and Brazil and sells in more than 140 countries through dedicated channels and [...]
Openads to focus on much needed features with $5 million investment
Openads, which offers open source ad server software for Web sites to manage their online ad campaigns, is a 6 month old company that spun out of London based Unanimis. While Openads itself is only 6 months old, the open source ad server software its developing is based on open-source phpAdsNew, which has existed since [...]
Is Microsoft’s patent claims a real threat to open source?
Microsoft claims that Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) like Linux, which runs a big chunk of corporate America, violates 235 of its patents. In a recent interview with Fortune, Microsoft General Counsel Brad Smith and licensing chief Horacio Gutierrez alleged that FOSS infringes on no fewer than 235 Microsoft patents. According to Fortune, they [...]
