-biz: Integrics releases Enswitch 2.4

Integrics are pleased to announce the release of Enswitch 2.4, a
complete integrated solution for commercial telephony services such as:

* Full featured hosted PBX.
* Onsite PBX to install at customers' sites.
* ITSP (Internet Telephony Service Provider) services.
* Calling cards.
* Call shops.
* Toll-free and number translation services.
* Much more.

Enswitch is in production today on systems from tens of users on single
machines to tens of thousands of users on redundant/failover clusters.
More details, including links to the full list of features and a working
demo of the web interface, are at:

http://integrics.com/products/enswitch/

2.4 is the largest update ever, reflecting the growing number of systems
in production. New features include:

- Queues and ACD. Unlike vanilla Asterisk, calls can be queued across multiple Asterisk machines, with the machines voting on which call gets forwarded to an agent next. Should one machine crash, calls on other machines are moved up the queue. Agents can be on SIP or IAX phones, SIP URIs, or external numbers.

- Optional IAX client support.

- Support for telephones in different area codes. Telephones can dial local numbers in their area code without having to dial the long distance prefix.

- Call volume statistics to help system owners manage system growth.

- Extension mobility, where one telephone can be logged in on top of another telephone.

- Support for European style DDI extensions, where calls can come in from the PSTN with an extension appended.

- New user type for voicemail only users.

- The ability to search customers and numbers.

- Bulk change the peer used for routes.

- Charges attached to customer accounts can now be quarterly or annual as well as monthly.

- Many smaller changes based on customer feedback.

-jadmin: new jabberd 1.6 series released!

Hi!

I am very happy to be finally able to announce the availability of
version 1.6.0 of jabberd14.

http://download.jabberd.org/jabberd14/

-announce: Asterisk 1.4 Final is released!

Just in time for christmas!..

The Asterisk Development Team is pleased to announce the first release
in the Asterisk 1.4 series, Asterisk 1.4.0!

As previously announced, this release contains a large number of new
features over the 1.2 series; see the CHANGES file in the distribution
for the complete list. Before installing this release, be sure to read
the UPGRADE.txt file as well, to be aware of changes that were made that
will require you to change configuration files or dialplan entries.

Along with Asterisk, Asterisk-Addons, Zaptel and libpri were also
released as 1.4.0 versions.

As usual, the release files are available on the ftp.digium.com servers
via FTP and HTTP, and have been signed with GPG keys to ensure their
authenticity.

The team thanks you for your support of Asterisk; more than half of the
new functionality in this release was developed by community members!

New Skype Worm

Websense Security Labs has had reports of a new worm that uses Skype to
propagate. We are still investigating the issue but here are the details so
far:

* users receive messages via Skype Chat to download and run a file
* the filename is called sp.exe
* assuming the file is run it appears to drop and run a password stealing
Trojan Horse
* the file also appears to run another set of code that uses Skype to
propagate the original file
* the file is packed and has anti-debugging routines (NTKrnl Secure Suite
packer)
* the file connects to a remote server for additional code
* the original site has been black holed and is not serving the code anymore
* the number of victims is still TBD
* the original infections appear to be in APAC region (Korea in particular)

More: http://www.websense.com/securitylabs/alerts/alert.php?AlertID=716

-jadmin: new jabberd 1.6 series released

from the jadmin mailing list..

One day later than I wanted, but the second release candidate of
jabberd14 1.6.0 is now available.

Iphone Debuts : Not by Apple, but by Linksys (cisco)

Linksys has put an end to the apple iphone rumours, by today announcing a whole new lineup of IP phones.

Courtesy I4U gadget blog for this info..

Direct Link to the cisco/linksys Press release is here

Cisco's Linksys division launches a broad line of iPhone branded VOIP products. iPhone was used so far heavily as name for the highly anticipated Apple mobile phone. Apparently Cisco since years owns the iPhone trademark. Somebody could have checked that.

Anyway the new Linksys iPhone family includes seven products. Some work with Skype or Yahoo! messenger. The photo above shows the WIP320 Skype Wireless-G handset.
The photo below shows the CIT400 Skype telephone kit.

-announce: ast 1.4-b4, zaptel 1.4-b3, ast 1.2.14, zaptel 1.2.12

Bunch of new releases just in time for the weekend..

1.4 Series:
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Asterisk 1.4 beta 4
Zaptel 1.4 beta 3

1.2 Series:
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Asterisk 1.2.14
Zaptel 1.2.12

Readon for the actual release announcements

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