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 ...

In Parts 1, 2 and 3, we set up Asterisk as a PBX for four PSTN lines. We set up incoming and outgoing calling and restricted outgoing calls to authorized users only. Our fine example users Alrac, Stan ...

Users of the open-source Asterisk VoIP (voice over Internet Protocol) product are advised to upgrade their software, following the discovery of two vulnerabilities that could allow attackers to ...

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 ...

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 ...