Allison Smith parodies Music On Hold

Just posted to the list, check it out:

Allison Smith just created a hysterical parody music on hold Parody.  Whatever you were doing, stop, and dial this number to listen to it: 360-519-5689. 2 minutes.

I just gave her a few ideas, but she took it and ran with it--she chose the audio and did the mix-down and everything.  Really funny!!

-Karl

*UPDATE*

Here is a transcription of the hilarious parody.

thank for calling karl

did you know that karl has been a proud member of the chicago community since 1994 and has over two friends in the chicago land area alone

thank for continuuing to hold

karl is just momeents away

thank you for holding

we appreciate your patience

we are busy giving other customers the same legendary karl service that we look forward to giving to you, when your call is answered shortly

your call is very improtant to karl

karl is committed to giving you the kind of service you deserve

when karl returns he will give you the careful attention you've come to expect ... from karl

your patience is appreciated

we know your time is valuable

and karl knows that too

we'll be with you shortly

did you know that karl has many interests, including creating elaborate parodies of music on hold recordings with professional voice over artists like allison smith!

please hold on, karl will be with you in just a moment

you're only moments away from receiving the karl experience, first hand.

it's an exciting time to be here

don't hang up on karl

karl processes calls in the order they are received

so please continue to hold, if you hang up and re-dial, this will only furthur your delay in speaking, to karl

you're holding for karl. Kingpin of the asterisk community

Ask about the karl difference and how you can be a part of it when your call is answered shortly.

End of 2008 Twitter Asterisk, Telephony and VoIP Directory

Introducing the simple Twitter Directory for telephgony, VoIP and asterisk users, developers, providezrs, manufacturers and hobbyists

If you're into Twitter and you'd like to take literally 10 seconds to go fill out this form with two fields, your Twitter name will be in the public directory of people who are interested in these technologies.

http://tr.im/voipform

You can look at the list here:

http://tr.im/voipview

I have experienced this idea in a professional wine group, 2500 people. They published a list of 250 on Twitter. You look over the list and follow as many as you wish. It works very well witn wine (the drinking kind, not the windows emu) so I decided to create one for Twitter and I hope to see at least 250 names on it within a week.

Please avoid putting any email on the list, but do put your Twitter name and then your company, website, or whatever else you like in the second field.

Enjoy!

/r

DECT flaws revealed by german researchers

It might not be such a big surprise after all, but recently serious flaws in DECT security were revealed and published here:

http://dedected.org/

Summary in German:

http://www.heise.de

update link to our new Call Center application

hi all

We have released our Call Center application.

you can find the demo at: http://host.tikalnetworks.com/cc3

user tikal-demo

pw tikal-demo

I will appreciate your wise elucidation

Happy Holidays

Alex

www.tikalnetworks.com

Wesbell Technologies to Distribute SimpleSignal’s SIP Trunking

Brampton, on, CANADA and DANA POINT, CA - DECEMBER 18, 2008 - SimpleSignal, a leading service provider of hosted telephone systems for businesses, and Wesbell Technologies, the sole North American distributor of the AastraLink Response Point solution,  announced today that they have entered into a distribution agreement to market SimpleSignal's SIP Trunking solution to Wesbell's AastraLink RP resellers.

SimpleSignal's SimpleSIP^TM solution gives SMBs and large enterprises advanced VoIP calling features and works with any PBX and IP-PBX phone system. SimpleSIP Trunking delivers productivity enhancing features, such as simultaneous ring, unified messaging and disaster recovery capabilities. Under the agreement, Wesbell resellers of AastraLink Response Point will be able to offer SimpleSIP to their business customers in the U.S. and Canada.

"This distribution arrangement with Wesbell Technologies means thousands of businesses will have access to our SimpleSIP Trunking solution and can gain access to advanced calling features using the same telephony system they have in-house," said Michael Sterl, vice president of Sales for SimpleSignal. "During these tough economic times, SimpleSIP Trunking allows companies to improve their workers' productivity and connectivity in an economical way."

"Wesbell Technologies is committed to building a value-add reseller network, with innovative products and solutions that provide the reseller community with the tools for success, and SimpleSignal is a key partner in adding that value," said Chris Mercer, vice president of Sales for Wesbell Technologies.

"SIP Trunking is a big play in today's marketplace, in which businesses are concerned about the bottom-line, yet want the best technology available," said Mark Fitchett, the National Channel director for Wesbell Technologies. "We know our resellers will be excited to offer SIP Trunking from a trusted provider like SimpleSignal to their business clients."

SimpleSignal's SimpleSIP Trunking:

• Reduces the need to purchase additional hardware to interface IP voice to the PSTN (Public Switch Telephone Network)
• Includes free local and long distance and office-to-office calling
• Includes non-reachable routing to any 10-digit number
• Includes Burstable trunks
• Has easy-to-use Web-based telephone number management.

Both parties will work together to bring value and unique competitive offerings to the AastraLink Response Point reseller community.

Resellers interested in Wesbell's SimpleSIP Trunking solution should contact Wesbell Technologies at 1-888-Wesbell.

About Wesbell Technologies

Wesbell Technologies is a privately owned corporation specializing in providing professional services, investment recovery, distribution and managed services to communications carriers, manufacturers and resellers through more than 250 people in 8 locations throughout North America.   Wesbell Technologies is a partner of Aastra and Microsoft^®, and is the sole distributor of the AastraLink Response Point phone system in North America. With Corporate Head Office located in Brampton Canada, Wesbell is focused on providing "Customer Satisfaction Beyond the Call".  For more information visit us at www.wesbell.com

About SimpleSignal
SimpleSignal Inc. is a facilities-based complete network provider of business VoIP.   The company's enterprise-grade service is designed specifically for small- to medium-sized businesses, combining voice and data, hosted PBX, long distance and conferencing into one powerful, cost-effective communications solution. Delivering more capabilities than on-premise PBX systems, with greater flexibility, simplicity, and personalized service. Now businesses of any size can leverage the power of advanced IP communications technology, improving business productivity, while significantly reducing overall telecom costs. SimpleSignal is privately held and headquartered in Dana Point, CA. SimpleSignal services are deployed in over 40 states and 6 foreign countries. For more information about SimpleSignal, visit http://www.simplesignal.com.

Digium Improves Communication with New Mailing List

Today Digium announced on the mailing lists that it has improved the announcement process for Asterisk and it's other products. Up until today there has been not much communication with the community about upgrades to policies, the site, or other relevant Digium type news. Well, now there is.

Here's the original annoucement:

Recently it was brought to our attention that while we announce new releases of Asterisk and Asterisk-Addons on the asterisk-announce mailing list (and others), and we publish security advisories on the asterisk-announce and asterisk-security mailing lists (and others), there are frequently changes that are made in our policies, procedures, and products that do not get announced on any widely-read mailing list.

To help with this situation, we've created a new mailing list called 'digium-announce', located on the lists.digium.com list server. This will be a low-volume, read-only (no discussion) list that will be used for various announcements, including:

1. Changes to Digium's services for the Asterisk community, like the bugs.digium.com issue tracker, the downloads.digium.com download server and others
2. Changes to and new releases of Digium's commercial software products used by the Asterisk community like the G.729 codec, the HPEC echo canceler and others
3. Improvements to the asterisk.org web site

Please feel free to subscribe to this mailing list by visiting

http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/digium-announce

Thanks for using Asterisk!

--
Kevin P. Fleming
Digium, Inc. | Director of Software Technologies
445 Jan Davis Drive NW - Huntsville, AL 35806 - USA
skype: kpfleming | jabber: kpfleming@digium.com Check us out at www.digium.com & www.asterisk.org

dahdi-linux 2.1.0.3 and dahdi-tools 2.1.0.2 released

The Asterisk development team has released dahdi-linux 2.1.0.3 and dahdi-tools 2.1.0.2. These releases are available for immediate download from http://downloads.digium.com.

dahdi-linux was updated in order to fix several issues when compiling on kernels prior to 2.6.18 as well as a condition in the wcb4xxp driver that can result in a kernel crash when connecting a cable to a port that was not configured.

dahdi-tools was updated primarily to resolve a regression where binaries linked to libtonezone from dahdi 2.0.0 would no longer function after installing dahdi-tools 2.1.0.

The complete change logs can be read at:

http://downloads.digium.com/pub/telephony/dahdi-linux/ChangeLog-2.1.0.3

and

http://downloads.digium.com/pub/telephony/dahdi-tools/ChangeLog-2.1.0.2.

Thanks for your continued support of Asterisk!

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