Archive for December 2009

Jaymie Scott & Associates chat with Techistan team

Dec 30th, 2009 | By omar shaikh | Category: Featured, Social Networking

Jaymie Scotto Cutaia, CEO of Jaymie Scotto & Associates (www.jaymiescotto.com)and publishers of Telecom News Now (TNN) is a graduate of New York University and known in the IP communications industry as a social media innovator and one of the best marketing and public relations consultant experts around. Their group, composed of Jaymie Scotto, Illissa Miller, [...]



Global open source enthusiasts interview Mark Spencer

Dec 28th, 2009 | By omar shaikh | Category: Featured, Telecom

Columbia 400 and Mark Spencer, inventor of Asterisk

Listen to Part One, Part Two, Part Three, and Part Four interview with Mark Spencer.
The Techistan staff asked for contributions through social media such as Twitter, fring, Skype, Linkedin, and Facebook for what to talk with Mark about. Fred Posner of TeamForrest in USA, Steven Cayona of DIDX in Florida, Max Glucksmann of Comtel-Networksin Florida, Brough Turner (respected [...]



Symbian Nokia Dialer with Low-bandwidth Consumption

Dec 28th, 2009 | By omar shaikh | Category: Beats, Voipswitch

The new release of Symbian dialer is available for demo on VoIPSWITCH www.callto.net website. The dialer uses special compression algorithm which allows for 50% saving in bandwidth consumption. The voice codec remains the same, it is g729. The improvement helps clients making calls using very low internet bandwidth, often from blocked areas, for example UAE. [...]



VoIPSWITCH Adds Video over IP Component

Dec 23rd, 2009 | By omar shaikh | Category: Beats, Voipswitch

Quality video over IP systems use existing standard video codecs to reduce the content that is routed to a bitstream, i.e., an MPEG transport stream. Next it uses an Internet Protocol network to transport the bitstream encapsulated in a stream of IP packets. Most often this occurs with a variant of the RTP [...]



Thank Broadband, iPod, Open Source, Time and the Recession

Dec 23rd, 2009 | By omar shaikh | Category: Podcasts

Why has podcasting become so popular? Five things: faster broadband Internet, the iPod and other mp3 players, easy to use open source publishing tools like Podcast Generator*, people need something to do while they are waiting in lines to pick their unemployment checks, and businesses need a new way to deliver commercial content [...]



Telephony, That was Then, This is Now

Dec 22nd, 2009 | By omar shaikh | Category: Featured

Tim May is the CEO of Etone Connect. He’s a telephony historian, or at least, that is how many at Astricon 2008 defined him. The Techistan team met him in the exhibit area delivering sermons on the beginning of Internet Telephony. He was surrounded by crowds, curious to know more. He became interested in Internet [...]



Recomienda Techistan ITEXPO Vocati y Comunicaciones

Dec 17th, 2009 | By omar shaikh | Category: Podcasts, Telecom

   (Grabé este durante el uso de wifi Panera de conveniencia. La calidad de la voz era efectivamente en diversos momentos a pocos.) Andrés Acero, director de operaciones de todo el mundo y es fundador de una de las más respetadas compañías de comunicaciones IP de Comunicaciones Vocati. Escucha el podcast.
Bienvenidos a DIDX Podcasts Media [...]



ITEXPO Makes Dreams Come True

Dec 17th, 2009 | By omar shaikh | Category: Events, Featured

Media have bombarded us in the last twelve months with economic doom and gloom under the current and new USA administration. Yet there are more people flying and participating in conferences, unemployment rates are falling and there is more innovation than ever. Where can you connect? ITEXPO East Jan. 20-22, 2010 in [...]



ActivePort Julie Fogg and Virtual World Opps

Dec 16th, 2009 | By omar shaikh | Category: Featured, Virtual Worlds

Eavesdrop soon via audio on the discussion between ActivePort.com’s Julie Fogg, a virtual world passionista (also known as evangelist), discuss Avaya’s web.alive and Second Life. For now, read the transcription.
Suzanne Bowen: How could this interview be different if we used Avaya’s web.alive or Second Life as opposed to Skype?
Julie Fogg: I’m glad you asked that. [...]



PSTN to Mobile Migration, MVNO, Mobile VoIP Apps

Dec 16th, 2009 | By omar shaikh | Category: Telecom

On November 3, 2008, an IP communications company team member noted that out of five of her best girl friends, three had gotten rid of their landline phones. One was using Verizon on a Blackberry Curve. One was using T-Mobile. Another AT&T on a Nokia E61i like she was. The first was not interested yet [...]