Digium just took the wraps off of an open source development effort for a new version of Asterisk call processing software that has been quietly under development for a couple of years.
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Microsoft Lync On Schedule for 11/17/10 General Availability
Microsoft’s Lync 2010 – the enterprise software formerly known as Microsoft OCS and Communicator – has achieved a major internal milestone.
Soft Launch for Sensory’s “Speech Triggers”
In June 2009, I blogged this post noting that Sensory Inc. had packaged “word spotting” capabilities into its firmware in order to support “truly hands free” speech recognition into a wide range of mobile, in car and, ultimately, ubiquitous appliances.
Skype is Just Not That Into Recombinant Communications
Phil Wolff at Skype Journal said it all in a very insightful post: “Skype’s mobile bizdev execs trumped Skype’s platform technology execs.”
SAP AG Promises an “Open Ecosystem”
I missed the SAP TechEd gathering in Las Vegas this week, but was entertained by a very active stream of tweets emanating from the venue.
RightNow’s Run-up Validates the Recombinant Contact Center
Last week, there was ample good news to go around as RightNow held its annual “Summit” for customers, partners and analysts.
What’s Happening at BT-Ribbit?
Opus Research tries not to promulgate rumors, but I’ve heard from two different sources that BT, which acquired phone-app specialist Ribbit in late July 2008 for $105 million, has initiated some major changes in the organization.
PhonoSDK: Plug-in Makes Any Browser into a SIP-based Softphone
Over the weekend at a conference of jQuery developers, the folks at Voxeo Labs launched a new technology that transforms “any Web browser” into a platform for SIP-based multimodal communications.
The “IBM Cloud Service Provider Platform” Fuels Telco Dream of a Service Grid
By introducing the “IBM Cloud Service Provider Platform”, Big Blue signals that it “gets it” when it comes to competing for its rightful share of enterprise spending on the amorphous idea of “cloud computing.
Speech Enabled Mobile Services Start Removing Obstacles to Adoption
Over on Internet2go.com, Greg Sterling posted some thoughts about Google Voice Search.