Tuesday, April 11, 2006

French Language Asterisk Prompts

by alec on April 11, 2006

Developers in need of a set of quality, french language, prompts for Asterisk need look no further. Montreal’s Claude Patry has released french language prompts recorded by June Wallack, licensed under the GPL.

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Skype Acquires Sonorit

by alec on April 11, 2006

Skype has just acquired Norwegian Company Sonorit AB and its US subsidiary Camino Networks for $27M in a moved designed, or so it seems, to make them less dependent on GIPS, and more competitive with MSN, and Yahoo. It’s a speedy exit for Sonorit, which was founded by ex-GIPS employees in June of 2005, and shipped their first product in Q4 of the same year. Unless GIPS suit against Sonorit has been resolved, though, Skype and GIPS destinies will be intertwined for some time.

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Six Month Generational Iterations: They’re Coming

April 11, 2006

Peter St. Andre’s short but incite-rich piece titled Going Mobile contains this paragraph: Another challenging idea: the average time to pay off investments in the older generation of switching equipment was 30 years (according to one speaker at the conference I attended). The time to payoff is now 3 to 5 years but technology generations [...]

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Comverse Claims Netcentrex in $164 Million Deal

April 11, 2006

Big fish Comverse gobbled up Netcentrex yesterday for $164 million in cash. Comverse does a little over $1 billion annually in sales, the bulk of which come from its multimedia billing, content and messaging solutions. A tasty bite for Comverse, Netcentrex is a top application provider in the converged services market. Company executives cited Netcentrex’s VoIP and FMC expertise [...]

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