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- Open Source VoIP: Asterisk or FreeSwitch?
- Open Source VoIP: Asterisk or FreeSwitch?FreeSWITCH is a great choiceBrian's experience is not an isolated one. FS is starting to gain momentum as people realize just how much it can do and how well it can do it. Prior to the 1.0.0 release we saw a trickle of new users,...
- Tags: Telephony, VOIP, open source, Asterisk, FreeSwitch
- Discussion threads 2008-07-22
- Open Source VoIP: Asterisk or FreeSwitch?
- When the time came for a new PBX, Brian Snipes chose to do something a bit unconventional. The IT manager at law firm Hare, Wynn, Newell, and Newton LLP didn't purchase a commercial PBX, nor did he settle on the open source market leader,...
- Tags: Phone, PBX, Attorney, FreeSwitch, Asterisk, Telephony, VOIP, Open Source, Telecom & Utilities, Networking, Telecommunications, Dave Greenfield
- Blog posts 2008-07-22
- Pioneer Kuro PDP-5020FD
- When it comes to black levels, you apparently get what you pay for. Pioneer's PDP-5020FD is the company's cheapest flat-panel plasma HDTV for 2008, yet it still costs significantly more than the poshest plasmas produced by Panasonic. We really liked the Panasonic TH-50PZ800U we reviewed earlier this year, and despite...
- Tags: TV & Home Theater, TVs, PDP-5020FD
- Product reviews 2008-07-18
- New hybrid delivery security architecture
- Secure Computing's Ken Rutsky tells how to integrate Software-as-a-Service SaaS, virtualization and appliance security offerings to let users get exactly what they want. “In the past, CIOs deployed their own self-contained application architectures on their own servers and storage systems. This old model is giving way to a hybrid...
- Tags: Appliance, Software, Software-as-a-service, Platform, Information Technology, Advantage, Hardware, Model, Service, Architecture, Organization, Delivery Security Architecture, IT Security Professional, Delivery Platform, Software As A Service (SaaS), Tools & Techniques, Cloud Computing, Security, Emerging Technologies, Management, CIO, SaaS, virtualization, IT appliances, service delivery, IT management, Ken Rutsky, Secure Computing
- News items 2008-07-16
- Hammering at cost with open source
- Irregular Bob Warfield riffs on Salesforce.com's decision to ditch Sun/Solaris in favor of Dell/Linux. In doing so, Bob makes the point that: ...for a SaaS company, the cost of service delivery is an absolutely critical factor. Once you have software that runs well and scales horizontally on cheap commodity...
- Tags: Software, Salesforce.com Inc., Software-as-a-service, Oracle Corp., Open Source, Vinnie Mirchandani, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Sales Force Management, Emerging Technologies, Sales, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-07-15
- Guitartab Chord Groover (msi)
- Save and print your own guitar tab songs with this easy to use chord groover. Edit your own tabs and songs and watch them play on the screen. Real sounds and a two handed animated display to help understand how to play chord changes, with major, minor, and 7ths chords....
- Tags: Song, Guitartab, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Channel Management, Tools & Techniques, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Marketing, Management
- Software downloads 2008-07-10
- QUODfm (zip)
- The QUODfm is a VSTi, a softwaresyntheziser for windows based on FM synthesis, with some new concepts for song developing and live use. You can select and hear sounds during a running sequence for 4 synths parallel. Select and hear microtunings for 4 synths during a running sequence. Play algorithmic...
- Tags: Scale, ESKA, QUODfm, CPU-Load, Business Process Automation, Operational Planning, Processors, Strategy, It Operations, Business Operations, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Management
- Software downloads 2008-07-09
- Westinghouse VK-40F580D
- Anybody who's owned a combination TV/VCR, or its multiheaded offspring, the TV/DVD player/VCR, knows that the VCR eventually breaks, and fixing it is not easy. Happily, the DVD part seems a lot more robust, which should reassure prospective buyers of the Westinghouse VK-40F580D, which is one of the few larger-screen...
- Tags: Consumer electronics, standout, DVD, Westinghouse VK-40F580D, Westinghouse, DVD player, TV
- Product reviews 2008-07-07
- Swiss solar firm has come ashore in the New World
- Swiss solar firm has come ashore in the New Worldsmart & clean: grid parity within 24 monthsGiven the fact that the price for fossile fuels are constantly rising, solar energy is one of the most promising solutions to our dwelling energy problem. Within the Solar Market Thin film applications...
- Tags: grid parity
- Discussion threads 2008-07-01
- t-rox Studio (msi)
- t-rox Studio is music transcription and editing software. Convert your favourite songs to musical notation for melody, guitar, piano, chords, bass and drums. Enrich playback with built-in software synthesizers and sampler. Export multi-track projects to wave files. Edit notes with the feature rich notation editor. Record audio and Midi. Version...
- Tags: Software, StarNotation, Tools & Techniques, Management
- Software downloads 2008-06-26
- Ruby on Rails: scaling to 1 billion page views per month
- While a lot of attention has been focused on Twitter with questions about whether Ruby on Rails scales, LinkedIn has been quietly running a RoR application on Facebook that is beating down around 1 billion page view per month. Bumpersticker, a relatively trivial Facebook application that allows you to create...
- Tags: LinkedIn, Ruby, Joyent, Ruby On Rails, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-06-23
- Westinghouse is plugged in. Green Plugged, that is.
- Scrappy little power-supply start-up Green Plug, has scored a bit of a coup. Westinghouse Digital Electronics plans to use the company's design for a smart power interface that can be used across MULTIPLE electronics products. That means, yes, that you could use THE SAME charging hub...
- Tags: Electronics, Power Supply, Westinghouse, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-06-18
- Breaking the dialogues of the deaf
- Breaking the dialogues of the deafre:.I love how you think of everything in black and white terms... its refreshing. But what if you consider this cognitive dissonance in computing security to be a market itself? Most people don't actually understand very much about the subject due to not their capacity...
- Tags: security, information technology, Cognitive Dissonance
- Discussion threads 2008-06-10
- Open source and the hardware roadblock
- Open source and the hardware roadblockI think is the economy of scalesManufacturing hardware can not go below a certain cost.The same design sold with different branding would generate a price war that would erase the profit or lead to proprietary extensions to differentiate the products.Software on the other hand could...
- Tags: Desktops, hardware, open source
- Discussion threads 2008-05-30
- Twitter clears Ruby on Rails on scaling wrongdoing
- Twitter has answered a burning question in the development community: Will Ruby on Rails stay as it overhauls its infrastructure? The answer: Ruby stays, but Twitter may diversify in some areas. Ruby on Rails has been tarnished a bit by Twitter's outages, but in a Q&A on...
- Tags: Ruby On Rails, Ruby, Twitter, Rails, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-30
- Can Rubinius bring Ruby back?
- Can a Ruby virtual machine written in Ruby bring back excitement to the open source scripting language? Rubinius, the Ruby virtual machine Engine Yard has been promising, is finally ready, said project lead Evan Phoenix. It passed the milestone of running Ruby on Rails a week ago,...
- Tags: Ruby, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-05-29
- Edge systems need a dose of SOA, too
- On the peripheries of every enterprise are the "edge" applications, databases, and systems. A repository here, an embedded system there, an open source database over there, distributed servers everywhere. Corporate wouldn't give us the budget, so we went ahead and jury-rigged this thing together anyway -- so there. These systems...
- Tags: Information Technology, SOA, Rosado, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-05-28
- Plexis xWedge Scanner / Scale Serial Wedge (exe)
- Plexis xWedge Dual Scanner / Scale Serial Wedge enables RS232 serial scales and scanners to communicate with your Windows applications. Fully buffered bi-directional device control is included with xWedge. You can have two scales, two scanners or one scanner and one scale all controlled by xWedge. User definable hot keys...
- Tags: Scale, Plexis Software, xWedge Dual Scanner, Scanners, Hardware, Peripherals
- Software downloads 2008-05-26
- Twitter gets funding; Now stabilize the patient
- Twitter has received $15 million in venture funding, according to Om Malik. Now the fun really begins: Twitter needs to change its architecture on the fly. Om reports that the latest round means that Twitter has raised about $20 million in total VC backing. ...
- Tags: Patient, Twitter, Ruby On Rails, Scripting Languages, Web Servers, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Internet, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-22
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