Fellow blogger Alec Saunders wrote a post last week that has brought a notion from the back of my brain to the front. (Given how crowded my brain is, that's no small feat). What Alex is saying, in ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. Two weeks after Microsoft said it would acquire Skype, the ...

I've had a phone line free household since I first got a cell phone. Being free from the wires works fairly well, but it has some limitations. To me the cellular phone is like a personal accessory, so ...

With the advent of voice-over-IP (VoIP) technology, there has been a dramatic movement toward IP-only telecommunications, leaving the twisted pair of yesteryear in the dust. Lower costs, automated ...

Digium, the maker of VoIP products based on the open-source Asterisk platform, and Skype on Tuesday partnered up to enable free and low-cost Skype calling and other Skype functionality via any ...

Nearly three years since Jon “maddog” Hall predicted that “VoIP using an open source solution, such as Asterisk, will generate more business than the entire Linux marketplace today,” open source VoIP ...

Asterisk creator: Consider open source VoIP, think twice about hybrid-hosted Asterisk creator Mark Spencer clarifies his position on hybrid-hosted VoIP, and discusses open source VoIP and what it ...

Asterisk, the open source Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) project, released patches for a security hole in its virtual private branch exchange (PBX) software over the weekend. The hole exists in ...

For more on this topic, see our Asterisk VoIP PBX guide. One hundred years ago, long before it became mainstream to talk about conservation and long before the so-called “carbon profile,” a presumably ...

Having completed its campus-wide wireless network last year, the University of Queensland (UQ) in Brisbane, Australia has joined the handful of enterprises deploying the open source Asterisk IP-PBX ...