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The announcement by Google of its new OS has the industry buzzing - and it will certainly be interesting to see the clash of these titans. Google will strike Microsoft right in its heartland– the Windows desktop system and its accompanying office package. Of course, the OS is still very much 'vaporware', but the threat is real.I remember the ‘attacks’ by IBM (OS/2), Novell (Dr DOS), Corel &

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3CX just won a readers choice award - ahead of Cisco and Asterisk. See the full information on the readers choice results here:http://www.windowsnetworking.com/news/WindowsNetworking-Readers-Choice-Award-IP-PBX-Servers-3CX-Phone-System-for-Windows-Apr09.html

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Last week I released a whitepaper explaining the advantages of a Windows based PBX over an appliance or a linux based PBX. I detailed the top 10 benefits. You can view the whitepaper in PDF format here. I also created a short presentation on youtube. Feedback welcome!

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I read somewhere that about 30% of telephony ports worldwide are installed at Hotels. That might be exaggerated, but undoubtedly there are a lot of hotels worldwide with large phone systems in place.And most of these hotel pbx systems are overpriced, aging and ‘under featured’. A huge opportunity therefore for 3CX. I am convinced that a software based PBX, with its flexibility and adaptability

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3CX Phone System v 7.1 was released today.The big feature was the new 3CX Assistant. The Assistant makes using the phone system for each extension user much easier.In addition, its also the basis for integration with other CRM software such as Microsoft Outlook and Salesforce.com The integration modules are in beta and can already be downloaded.You can view the press release here.

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Microsoft announced a new server version – Windows Server 2008 Foundation. In a nutshell this is a lower cost OEM version of Windows Server 2008 – of course a few features have been removed but all the key features are there including Active Directory.  Essentially a File, Print (and why not PBX) server for Small to Medium business. With server costs as low and hardware specs as good as they are

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I was pleasantly surprised by the announcement that SKYPE has finally opened up to SIP based PBXs. You can register for the beta program here. This is amazing news for the VoIP industry and I believe will further accelerate its growth. SKYPE has good international rates, and calls to Skype users are of course free. More importantly, customers using SKYPE can call your company at nocharge! For

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I was happy to see 3CX on Hak5 today. Actually, very happy :-)  Hak5 do Internet TV shows on Technology and the content is actually pretty cool. Matt LeStock showed how to install 3CX in under 10 minutes, which included running the install process which takes quite a chunk of that. Some qoutes from Matt:"After having an urgent need to replace our aging PSTN based telephone system which costs $100

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Microsoft Excel is a dangerous tool. Although excellent software, Microsoft Excel has some part in the current recession. Back in the early nineties when I was sitting for my MBA, I used it to calculate the potential of a new business idea. ‘Navigator’ was to be a piece of software distributed by travel operators interactively selling holiday destinations in sound and motion. Of course the

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Over the past few months we have been working on creating a series of video tutorials, called "VoIP nuggets", about 3CX Phone System and VoIP and SIP in general. These video tutorials are published on 3CX' Youtube channel. The VoIP Nuggets are authored by 3CX staff, the 3CX user community as well as technology partners such as Patton. The tutorials are provided free of charge. 3CX’ VoIP nuggets

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And here it is. A sneak preview of the new 3CX Assistant. What will it do? Well its an easy to use utility to allow users to manage their extension - take, transfer or park calls. It works in tandem with any phone. It also shows presence of all other users, and can be used to see Queue status as well if you have the rights.We are working on a beta, which should be available in a few weeks

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Considering the flurry of news about the rumored Gdrive today, it would appear that the much awaited Google Gdrive data storage is just around the corner. And this is good news for Google fans like myself. Although there are several free data storage services available, I prefer to have it all tied to my google account.I am assuming the new Gdrive service will be free, though I don’t see how they

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Over the past few months we have been working on a new, light weight soft phone. It should be quicker to install, load and easier to use.Get more information about it here.Or download it directly here.Let us know what you think!

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A few months ago i wrote about how i questioned the future of Nortel, the biggesttelecommunications vendor in North America. Nortel just filed for bankruptcy! Even I didn't think it was going to go this fast!Nortel lost a whopping C$3,4 billion in the third quarter. Its shares were down to 11 canadian dollar cents, making its market cap a mere C$57 million. In 2000, its market cap was $350

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First of all happy new year to all of you! I believe 2009 will prove to have many positive sides to it. Out with the old, in with the new as they say! The shake up of the financial world will undoubtedly continue, but as with every shake up, a great many new opportunities will be created for those that can act swiftly, nimbly and more cost effectively. Shake ups create an even playing field as it

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After many months of hard work, I’m pleased to announce that we have just released 3CX Phone System version 7. Version 7 is a major release, because, besides many new features and improvements, it also had major architectural changes.We tightened our integration with the Windows platform, by converting to .NET and integrating with IIS. We also built a set of APIs which makes our system more

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OK. Its finally available. 3CX Phone System v7 RC2. We're a month late, but a few good features made it in last minute, including Secure SIP, improved logging and a feature to allow extension users to dial in and make outbound calls.Check out the 3CX Blog for the change log & announcementYou can download 3CX Phone System for Windows Beta from here.Looking forward to your feedback! Please use the

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The rumor mill has it that Nortel will cut another 5000 jobs. See article here (in german). One wonders what the long term plans are of this company. At its high point, the networking and PBX vendor employed over 90,000 staff worldwide. Today it employs 32,000 and this might become quite a bit less, quite soon. One can only conclude that the traditional, non software based PBX is on the way out.

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I blogged about it last week, and since then Acunetix has released the new version of its popular web vulnerability scanner. This is a significant release because of its ground breaking acusense technology, which can accurately identify the code that is producing the security vulnerability. This of course allows you to fix your application faster. It also reduces false positives. Download the

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Acunetix has just set new standards in web application security technology with its new Acusensor technology. Available as part of the new version 6, this technology identifies more more vulnerabilities, whilst generating less false positives. In addition it indicates exactly where in the code the vulnerability is and also reports debug information. Acunetix is the first and only Web

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It took us a while longer, but its finally here: 3CX Phone System V7. Key new features:Completely revamped interface, with many usability improvementsAbility to set advanced forwarding rules per extension based on caller ID, time received and whether its an internal or an external callApache was replaced by a Microsoft Web Server, Cassini, which is more windows friendly, or optionally IIS can be

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Last week Cisco bought Jabber, the maker of Instant Messaging products and the company behind the XMPP standard for Instant Messaging. The XMPP standard has already gained a lot of traction – it's the technology behind Google talk and many chat servers including Openfire, ejabberd and more.Cisco will be integrating Jabber technology into all its unified communications products and making XMPP the

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Last week Deerfield.com released a new version of its email management package that allows integration with 3CX Phone System, making the process of handling both incoming customer calls and email more seamless. For example, agents can launch a call to a customer that sent in an email with a single click. This makes it easier for the agent to call a customer to resolve a problem, which is often

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Now I have an excuse to go to Australia :-). Seriously, I am pleased to announce that we have now opened our very own office in Australia. The ASIAPAC Office will help build out our presence in Australia and New Zealand but also work the whole Asian market, where I see a lot of potential for 3CX. Its also nice to be 're-united' with Richard Rundle, a former workmate who will be heading the

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There is a lot of talk about Virtual Desktop Infrastructure – the ability to move desktops to virtual machines. However what’s often omitted from the discussion is how users will access their ‘new’ virtual desktop. Obviously using a fat client to access a virtual desktop is pointless. In order to benefit from Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, the old desktops need to be converted to easily

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