tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33409251303810439442008-05-13T07:57:40.036+03:00Nick Galeahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15807733715925574961noreply@blogger.comBlogger27125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3340925130381043944.post-62199602744362723932008-05-12T14:37:00.007+03:002008-05-13T07:56:08.624+03:00

The 3CX development team have been keeping busy over the past few months, and I am happy to report that version 6 of 3CX Phone System is just around the corner. We have added numerous features, including; Conferencing server - to make conference calls with up to 32 callersIntercom - intercom/page any extensionCall Queue status update information from the 3CX Softphone / VOIP clientSee parked

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At CEBIT I met up with Product managers of Aastra and Linksys phones. With their support we have been able improve our support for both phone brands of phones. Build 4393 of 3CX Phone System now includes provisioning support for Aastra phones as well as BLF support. Linksys provisioning support will be added by next week, whilst Linksys has announced BLF support in its new firmwares out in about

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Just got back from the yearly ‘CEBIT trip’. It was the first time we represented 3CX at the worlds number one IT fair. We exhibited in Hall 13, and I joined my Colleagues Chris, Kevin from 3CX and Andreas from our distributor Ebertlang. I must have spoken/demo’d 3CX to at least 100 people – and noticed a number of trends in the VOIP business: Hall 13 – more or less the ‘VOIP’ hall, was one

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We finally got it ready – 3CX Phone System V5.1. A lot of hard work of the 3CX team went into that one, and I think it shows. We have made numerous improvements and fixes, and introduced the much awaited 3CX Tunnel feature. The 3CX Tunnel allows for remote extensions and branch offices to be connected via a single TCP port. You no longer need to open a range of ports for RDP and SIP traffic

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I recently wrote about the excellent Google domains product. Well, now its possible to use just the security 'component' of Google domains and combine it with any mail server. For only $3 a year per user, you can outsource your entire anti spam and anti virus to Google. For a 50 user company, that’s only $150 per year! Unbeatable, knowing how good Google anti spam and anti virus is and how much

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These financial ‘analysts’ make me laugh some times. Microsoft’s intended purchase of Yahoo is supposed to ‘loosen Googles grip on ads’, ‘rock the foundation of online search’, to name just a few of the quotes I have seen. Truth of the matter is that both Yahoo and Microsoft have negligible market share in online ads, and for a very good reason: Their platforms are both very bad and have very

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The ODF alliance, the organization proposing an open standard document format, hit back brilliantly at some "research" performed by the Burton Group (aka the Microsoft Propaganda Department) , in which it claimed OOXML was superior. Not surprisingly this "research" by the Burton group was provided free of charge - of course because it had been entirely funded by Microsoft in advance and is to be

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I recently chucked the Exchange / Outlook Fatware combo for Google Apps. And i havent looked back since. Google Apps comes with the best anti spam & anti virus in town, 6 gigs per mailbox (and counting), and is super easy to administer. You can access your mail anywhere and its backed up by Google. No need to worry about a backup mail service or about moving ISP. And its free too. What more can

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It took some time, but today we finally uploaded a really good beta of 3CX Phone System V5. The reason it took so long is because we packed a lot of new functionality in there. We also made significant changes to our phone system in order to prepare for new features and scale even better. 3CX Phone System V5 adds 3CX bridges, allowing for easy connection of remote branch offices. It has a built

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Just read a post by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols of eweek titled 'Is VMware a dead duck?'. I assume that article was not meant seriously, but in deed last week Vmware shares went down on the announcement that Oracle had 'entered' the virtualisation business. As if VMware with a technology lead from here to the moon and 95% plus market share, should have anything to worry about?? Oracle makes

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McAfee announced today it bought ScanAlert for US$54 million. ScanAlert sells a web site security scanning service. After a number of bad buys, McAfee seems to be on to a good thing this time. US$54 million for 75,000 paying customers is a fair price. There's a US$24 million earn out, but if that is worded and devised similar to most earn outs, at the end it's either going to add significant

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No one other than Bill Gates launched Microsoft's entry into the VOIP market last week. Microsoft Unified Communications Server is a web conferencing and chat server that can be integrated with existing PBXs (Although the enterprise version has a switching module). Microsoft has validated the VOIP market and this will definitely help educate the market about the benefits of software-based

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SKYPE might have been one of the front runners in the VOIP market, but its refusal to open up its VOICE platform and allow other players to connect to it and develop for it, has resulted in SKYPE becoming a drag on the VOIP industry and on itself. If SKYPE would create an open API to make and receive calls, SKYPE could be leveraged across companies networks via IP PBX's, resulting in more

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Its long been known to most that patents are bad for business. The software business in particular suffers a great deal: Ridiculous patents such as “One click ordering” (Amazon) and other such totally obvious methods can from that point onwards only be done by the company who filed the patent. Patents are relatively easily obtained, since the patent officers are overworked and not particularly

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3CX exhibited at the Internet Telephony show this week and today i had the opportunity to visit a few of the sessions about VOIP at the conference. One really interesting session was on voice mashups, by Thomas Howe. By marrying mashups and voice, business processes and customer service can be radically improved - cost effectively. For example assume that your flight is cancelled - rather then

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OK, another post related to Acunetix. But what we are giving away today is pretty good i think. We have decided to make the cross site scripting functionality free - anyone can download it and check his website for cross site scripting vulnerabilities. This is a major security risk these days so this will really help the security conscious webmaster. This is pretty significant technology, we

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German politicians have defended plans to email Trojan horse software to terror suspects in the hopes of monitoring their conversations. The measures have sparked a fierce civil liberties debate. More on http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/03/german_trojan_plan/ An amazingly bad plan by german government too crazy for words. And this only months after an arguably even more ridiculous action by

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Acunetix has released an RSS feed which lists known web application vulnerabilities and the specific technologies which they target. Hackers today have an ever increasing list of weaknesses in the web application structure at their disposal, which they can exploit to accomplish a wide variety of malicious tasks. In order to educate the public, Acunetix felt the need to document all

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Cyprus has some phenomenal nature - one of the reasons i am here.... Well i went on an amazing bike ride, which turned into a hike after my chain broke, last saturday. Went up mount olympus (+2000m) - amazing scenery as can be seen from the pic.

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3CX released the Enterprise edition of its new product 3CX Phone System, a Windows-based IP PBX / SIP server that completely replaces a proprietary PABX. 3CX Phone System is based on the open SIP standard and interoperates with a wide range of popular SIP phones, VOIP Gateways and SIP-based providers. The Enterprise edition of 3CX Phone System implements enterprise telephony features such as Call

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Its been a very intensive 2 months working on this latest version of 3Cx Phone System. Its a major step forward since we have reworked the interface and included support for many more gateways and providers. Download the beta here http://www.3cx.com/downloads/3cxphonesystem3_2295.exe

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Yes! Just delivered by 2X instead of Citrix!! You can buy 2X Application Server with server based printing for $700 and download 2X ThinClientServer free for unlimited clients. That means you can save thousands of dollars on Citrix, another few thousand on Thin Print and tens of thousands on thin clients, simply by converting your old machines. Check out the press release The new 2X

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Businesses that rely on payment by credit cards are required to comply with the PCI security standards by September 2007. Non compliance could result in loss of merchant account, severe fines and lawsuits. In view of these new regulations, Acunetix has published a PCI Compliance Guide to help companies understand the concept behind the Payment Card Industry as well as documenting the steps needed

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3CX Phone System windows Gold award... 3CX today announced that WindowsNetworking.com, one of the leading resource sites for network administrators and IT professionals, awarded 3CX Phone System the prestigious Gold award. The award serves as a mark of excellence and dependability, providing the ultimate recognition from peers within the industry. “Only outstanding products receive the

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Released this press release today : http://www.3cx.com/news/asia-offices.html 3cx Opens offices in Hong Kong, Japan and Korea to serve booming Asian IP PBX software market. The IP PBX / VOIP market is increasing at a staggering rate and Asia is no exception. According to a study conducted by consulting company Frost & Sullivan, in 2002, sales of IP PBX systems in the Asia-Pacific region,

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