Ted Stevenson

When we received a press release announcing the public release of Dimdim, a new open-source tool for online meetings, it caught our eye, since we’ve been testing some similar products of late. In a move that will give you some idea of how disruptive this technology may turn out to be, the company scheduled a […]

With the advent of interconnected computing networks, network security emerged as a crucial issue for businesses of all stripes. And as business networks have been called on to support more and more critical applications, particularly VoIP and other communications applications, the importance of security has only increased—or so you would think. A recent InStat study […]

If you ask folks at Whaleback Systems which is better, hosted VoIP service or owning your own IP PBX, they’ll tell you “Neither.” “We think both of those approaches are flawed,” Whaleback director of marketing, Dave Zwicker told Enterprise VoIPplanet.com in a recent meeting. “That’s our philosophy.” Instead, Whaleback has created a turnkey service model […]

Does the world need a new audio conferencing bridge? David Erickson, founder and CEO of Free Conferencing Corporation of America thinks so. In fact Erickson is backing a new venture—WYDE Voice—that launched its innovative line of conferencing servers earlier this month at spring VON. We recently spoke with Erickson and WYDE’s vice president of global […]

When we first spoke with Ottawa-based Objectworld Communications Corp. in the summer of 2005, it was just getting ready to launch its flagship product, Objectworld Unified Communications Server (UC Server), the first product designed to allow an enterprise to operate and manage all of its business communications functionality from a single server operating in a […]

If you stop by the Motorola booth at the VoiceCon 2008 show in Orlando this week (Booth 308), you can get a demonstration of the company’s new Total Enterprise Access and Mobility solution or TEAM. This new initiative promises to bring wireless mobile communications to all enterprise employees, not just executives or desk-inhabiting office workers. […]

Zeacom Limited,—which has offices in New Zealand, Australia, the United States, and the U.K—may be the most successful vendor of contact center and unified communications software that you’ve never heard of. The company got its start with a call center application built to work on top of NEC’s line of IP PBXs. Ten years ago, […]

Propel Software has launched a product that it says solves a problem most people don’t know they have: performance degradation of time-critical networked applications due to competition for bandwidth. Its solution? Propel Personal Bandwidth Manager. Why do people need it? According to Propel CEO David Murray, it’s because, on the one hand, “there are more […]

Ever feel reluctant to give out your personal phone number in a situation where you wanted to be reachable, but also wanted to protect your privacy or preserve your anonymity? Some examples that come to mind are making an initial contact through an online dating service, or filling out a credit card application. On the […]

There’s a feeling of inexhaustible energy radiating through the world of open-source VoIP. And the more we learn, the more we discover. We recently had the opportunity to speak with Marc Fribush, president and COO of newly fledged service provider Aretta Communications, and got the lowdown on NetPBX, this organization’s vision of phone service for […]