Will this be the year open-source PBX and VoIP systems are ready for their close-up? The opportunity is better than ever, argued attendees at January's Digium Asterisk World conference in Miami.

VoIP vendor Pingtel is spearheading the endeavor by contributing to the open-source movement source code for its Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) software, including software for its SIPxchange ...

(Editor’s note: the author was confused between the GPL open-source Qucs and the closed-source, binary-only QucsStudio. We’ve cleaned that up.) QucsStudio supports a wide range of circuit ...

The two business models are not theoretical, but realistic. The author explains how his company (Crack Semiconductor) developed commercially successful cryptographic silicon IP using entirely open ...

In 2003, Alex Aristides, armed with expertise in voice/data cable infrastructure, IT, PBX, voicemail and contact centers, embarked on an entrepreneurial journey after leaving his role as a PBX ...

This week Jonathan Bennett and David Ruggles sit down with Joshua Colp to talk about Asterisk! That’s the Open Source phone system software you already interact with without realizing it.

Why settle for an ancient, analog PBX? The best voice over IP (VoIP) services we've tested deliver enterprise-grade phone system features for a small-business-friendly price.

An interesting app I’ve just found on Google Code, Telephone is an open source project that lets you make phone calls over the internet with many SIP providers including Google Voice. Telephone seems ...

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The world has come to rely upon the free work of millions of skilled software developers—the maintainers of free open-source software (FOSS) projects. But the world hasn’t given them a tip.

As a group, these principles form the basis of the open science agenda – an agenda that is currently being defined by stakeholders from around the world. Our goal as a learned society, professional ...