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Why have a phone network?

That's the question that constantly occurs to me when talking with folks like Fonality founder Chris Lyman.Fonality today announced trixbox 2.0, a new version of its open source PBX software, featuring a new Graphical User Interface GUI to make installation and integration easier.The irony here is that Fonality's business model...

Tags: Fonality, telephone, Lyman

Blog posts 2006-10-25

Placing some Fonality on the PBX Business with Linux

It may be the last step in the PBX evolution.A GNU-based Linux application that mimics all a regular PBX can do for 40-80% less. That's what Fonality is all about, transforming open source tools into a valuable product. The open source tool in this case is Asterisk, which last week...

Tags: open source, Lyman, PBX, Fonality

Blog posts 2006-01-30

Additional Resources

Fonality boosts presence detection in new PBXtra4.0

Got a guided tour the other day of business phone system solutions provider Fonality's new PBXtra 4.0 phone system. Announced this morning, the new rev offers enhanced presence detection under the aegis of FindMe with Boomerang Mobile Integration. The sell...

Tags: Phone, Fonality, Telecom & Utilities, Mice, Hardware, Peripherals, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2008-03-04

Fonality, Dell team up for SMB VoIP solution

  Here at the Internet Telephony Conference  & Expo in Miami Beach, open-source Internet calling solutions provider Fonality is showing a new offering called the Fonality VoIP Phone System. Launched with Dell, the aim of Fonality VoIP Phone System is to make affordable phone...

Tags: Team, Dell Computer Corp., Fonality, Dell'Oro Group, Small And Medium Business, Fonality VoIP Phone System, Jes, Smb/Sme, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2008-01-24

Microsoft's Zune bizdev head counter-challenges my offer to shave my head

Yesterday, via e-mail, Zunecorps blogger Charlie Curran sent me an e-mail saying that Microsoft's head of business development for Zune Bill Wittress had a counter-offer to my open challenge to Microsoft president Robbie Bach to shave my head if Microsoft is ranked #2 in personal digital media player PDMP units...

Tags: SanDisk Corp., Problem, Microsoft Zune, Microsoft Corp., Bloomberg L.P., Bill Wittress, Sales Strategy, E-mail, Blogging, Sales Force Management, Sales, Online Communications, Internet, David Berlind

Blog posts 2007-10-12

Carm from Sandisk ups ante; will shave her head too if Microsoft's Zune makes it to #2

Last week, in an open letter to Microsoft President Robbie Bach, I offered to shave my head if, after the holiday 2007 market share data is tallied, Microsoft's share of the portable digital media player market puts its Zune-branded players in 2nd place ahead of the current 2nd place holder...

Tags: SanDisk Corp., Microsoft Zune, Microsoft Corp., Sales Strategy, Digital Media, Corporate Communications, Sales, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, David Berlind

Blog posts 2007-10-08

Open challenge to Microsoft's Robbie Bach: If Zune is #2 after X-Mas, I'll shave my head

This is Microsoft's chance to get even with me for anything I've written that it doesn't agree with. It's all in good fun which we need more of in this industry and it's a great way to exhibit how passionate if not disputatious journalists and vendors are when it...

Tags: SanDisk Corp., Microsoft Zune, Apple Inc., Story, Microsoft Corp., Digital Media, Digital Music, Media Players, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, David Berlind

Blog posts 2007-10-03

Open source systems management challenging incumbents

The 451 Group has issued a research report maintaining that BMC, HP, IBM and CA are "ripe for a shake-up from open source systems management players. " Open source vendors covered in the 60-page report titled "Managing in the Open: The Next Wave of Systems Management" and written by...

Tags: Software Infrastructure, IT Management, General

Blog posts 2007-07-31

Sandisk delivers multimedia players

Sandisk: Not just a memory card makerAt CES 2007 in Las Vegas, ZDNet Executive Editor David Berlind speaks to Carmella Lyman, public relations manager for Sandisk about the company's line of audio and video players--from the Sansa Express MP3 player to the Sansa View video player and the Sandisk WiFi...

Tags: SanDisk Corp.

Videos 2007-01-13

CES: Move over Zune. SanDisk may have gotten the WiFi music player thing just right

When Microsofts Zune music player came out, there were a lot of questions about its so-called "social features" that were enabled by its WiFi radio. To share music with others, another Zune with a WiFi radio had to be within "beaming" distance. The problem? With iPods virtually steamrolling the music...

Tags: General, Entertainment, Mobile, Personal Technology, Wired &, Wireless, Apple, Events, CES 2007, Cool Tech Gear, Microsoft Zune, music player, Wi-Fi

Blog posts 2007-01-08

Open source in the post-telephony era

We are firmly in the post-telephony era. (Image from the BellSystemMemorial.) On buying BellSouth, AT&T executives spoke of selling "bundles" of service, wireless being the most important, and of using ads as a primary revenue stream. They were combining the land lines business as a by-product -- local, long distance,...

Tags: Trixbox 2.0, open source, 2007 preview, business models, VOIP, Infrastructure, Strategy, Enterprise Policy, Implementations, Applications, General

Blog posts 2007-01-04

Is the telephone apocalypse now?

Chris Lyman is certain of it. He told me yesterday that Fonality's PBXtra is just that, the end not just of traditional telephony but of traditional telephony channels.Instead, he said, data VARs like All Covered are taking over the business phone market. "It's a lot harder for the interconnects to...

Tags: data VAR

Blog posts 2006-11-03

Placing some Fonality on the PBX Business with Linux

Placing some Fonality on the PBX Business with LinuxResponse from Fonality CEODana - you asked two questions at the closure of your blog and I have replied to them below:> Once everything moves to the Internet,> is a PBX really anything more than a very> limited operating system?The answer is:...

Tags: Telephony, VOIP, INTERNET, OPEN SOURCE, Red Hat Inc., Linux, Fonality, Asterisk, PBX, voice quality

Discussion threads 2006-01-30

Critical Windows patch may wreak PC havoc

Critical Windows patch may wreak PC havocSensationalistic title"...causing trouble for some users...""The trouble appears to occur only when default permission settings on a Windows directory have been changed...""The software maker has received "limited reports" of problems from customers..."So how exactly does this constitute "wreaking havoc"?Carl RapsonMessage has been deleted.to define...

Tags: Patches, Desktops, Operating systems, PC, Microsoft Windows, permission, patch

Discussion threads 2005-10-14

Berkeley: 5 exabytes of info in 2002

The amount of new information stored on various media such as hard drives has doubled in the past three years, to five exabytes of new information produced in 2002, according to a study released Tuesday by the University of California, Berkeley. That's exabytes, as in one byte with 18 zeros...

Tags: exabyte

Blog posts 2003-10-29