Who Will Provide E911 Video, Voice and Text Service?

E911 Watch columnist Nick Maier in the TMC Internet Telephony magazine ends his March 2012 article with, "In the not-too-distant future, cloud-based E911 solutions will be able to accept not only emergency voice calls, but emergency video and emergency text messages. Location objects sent along with the video or text will make it possible to automatically route the information to the right PSAP so help can be dispatched."

Who are the players in the research and provision of a cloud-based #911 solutions available in video, voice and text, no matter what the device, to communications providers? Those are the questions my IP communications weekly chat group asks. Please comment on this blog with your opinions.

Amazon lists a few answers:
New Global Telecom Launches SafeCall for E911 VoIP Service

VoIP and E-911: is help on the way?: An article from: Rural Telecommunications

Is help on the way? VoIP E911: making sure you're covered in an emergency.(VOIP ADVISOR): An article from: Computer User

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Let ITEXPO Participants Remember You for Business and as Fun

IT stands for Internet Telephony in ITEXPO, but ITEXPO is now co-located with several summits and workshops such as SmartGrid, 4G Wireless Evolution, SIP Trunking, VIPeering, M2M, Cloud Computing and more...  that spell "B U S I N E S S  D E V E L O P M E N T" like our company and you cannot find elsewhere.
In fact, our company's DIDX has added thousands of new wholesale telecom clients and vendors to the DIDXchange because of ITEXPO participation.




So, I thought I'd like to share with my readers what the ITEXPO East All Conference Reception Sponsor will get. First, it is scheduled February 3, 2011 in Miami Beach, Florida.

Attendees will appreciate and remember your company for a long time because of the fun and memorable evening of games, cocktails, karaoke, hors d'oeuvres, and networking!

The sponsor will receive all the leads generated by this reception.
Sponsorship Includes:
1. Pre-show email blast to ITEXPO Database promoting your sponsorship
2. Complete reception attendee list with contact information
3. Special introduction at reception by TMC CEO Rich Tehrani
4. Signage throughout convention center and event
5. Inclusion in the official Show Guide and program materials
6. Inclusion in all pre- and post-show publicity

Contact your ITEXPO sales representative today at 1-203-852-6800.

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The Continuing CNAM Nightmare

We hear daily from so many companies around the world who provide voice over Internet and IP communications solutions about their trial such as credit card fraud, LNP taking forever ... but the latest popular issue is CNAM. Check a recent post on DIDX blog post called "Jimmy Buffet Wants Fruitcake, Customers Want CNAM."

For the common man or woman like you or me... Just imagine if your phone number by default said "Private," and you were told by your provider, this cannot be changed. If you don't like it, just leave the service? Hmm... you and I deserve to understand what is going on, right? And to have a voice service that shows at least the city and state of the number or even our real name.

A very interesting discussion about who is responsible for CNAM from 2008, why some offer it and others refuse to deal with it at  http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r20777865-Service-with-Free-or-Unlimited-Incoming-CNAM.

Read the discussion between a wholesale DID provider in a country outside the USA with a large and popular VoIP company in the USA starting with the first ticket and ending with the last. Suggestions on how to explain? How to move ahead and satisfy big companies who are highly respected who need CNAM.

Caller ID Out Going

2010-05-11 21:50 

We want our DID numbers to display City, State when we call via them. 

For e.g. when we call via 18504327411 the caller ID should display "PENSACOLA, FL", but currently your DIDs you sell us show "Private." 

2010-05-11 22:00 Dear Client, 

In order to show the required information, please configure your system, if it is capable, to show the information as part of your CLI when you call the DID. Our company only sends the CLI that you request from your web portal, which is configured to show CLI in E164 format. We do not send any other auxiliary information such as city and state when your DID is dialed. 

Warm regards,

Client Support 

 2010-05-11 22:05 Dear Sir, 

This is related to CNAM outbound. 

As you know there are two parts of CNAM, one inbound, one outbond. 

Normally carriers such as Global Crossing or Magrathea Telecom may even charge $1.50 extra for Cnam Inbound,  but when we call out via this number, it dips to CNAM database and whatever the Caller ID is defined on the number in CNAM, that is what will be displayed. 

The solution which you have mentioned is related to Inbound. 

I hope its clear now, apologize was not much clear before. 

2010-05-11 22:11 Dear Client, 

Our company is only an inbound provider. We do not support outgoing calls. Also, any usage of our numbers for outgoing calls is not allowed. See our Terms of Sale.

Customer shall not use the Service and shall require Endusers to not use the Service for unlawful purposes. This will include but is not limited to the transmission of information or offering of any service which is abusive, defamatory, harmful, pornographic, threatening, unlawful, or anything that can  be considered offensive in any other way. This would also include and be in regards to outbound traffic to PSTN by faking the sending address of the transmission using PROVIDER number in the caller id, also called spoofing. 

Are you saying you want to spoof the outbound CLI from your system? Please be aware that by using our DIDs for outbound calls, you are breaching the contract to which you have agreed to follow. Any other questions?

Warm Regards,

Client Support

2010-05-11 22:34 Dear Sir,

Please, do you know what is CNAM? We know you don't provide outgoing service. We are not doing anything illegal. We have offices in 7 nations, a multi-national company, and are highly respected throughout the world for in our industry and trade.

Caller ID on the number is defined by the DID provider, which is displayed when one uses DID numbers to make calls out via his server. 

In our case for example, I will configure your DID number on my server for Inbound services and use another company for outgoing. 

Now when I am calling out using your number as caller id, it should display the City, State rather then "Private" or "Unknown" like you have it now. We do not plan to spoof, never have and do not want to.

Again, caller iD is defined in DID providers database . 

2010-05-11 22:50 Dear Client, 

We are aware what CNAM is. Please be aware that CNAM is a third party service. As stated in prior postings, we do not provide that service, either for inbound or outbound calls. It may be configurable on your system if your system is capable. However as stated in prior posts, all out company provides is the CLI. Since you are spoofing our DIDs CLI to make outbound calls, we do not support the feature you are requesting. Please be aware that you are breaking the Terms of Sales clause that was mentioned in my prior post. 

As stated, if you are still pursuing the use of outbound calls with our DIDs, the feature you requested may be configurable on your end if your system supports it. Please treat the DIDs as regular extensions and add the information to your outgoing CLI. 

Because we do not support outbound calls spoofing our DID CLIs we cannot further assist you on this goal. We will be required to cancel your account.

Sincerely, 

Client Support

2010-05-11 23:39 Please understand, Sir.

You want to cancel our account because we are asking for this? Thank you for your time in explaining this but we are not making any caller id changes on our side while making the call out. Our gateways support that. 

The only thing we want is to change is the CNAM entry in your providers' Database so when people make call out and call out providers dip the CNAM database, they can know that your provider has made the changes to show "City, State" a common industry standard, Sir. 

More information related to same: 

VOIP company controlling the phone number that you have the responsibility for correcting errors, your outgoing name info. your policy might be that you won't list your name (like maybe say Lingo), but I guess you do have the responsibility of correcting errors such as an incorrect name, by erasing the old text from the databases or by asking the provider. 

I hope you can help us here as if it was not important, I would have ignored this. 

Your extremely frustrated client who is trying to find where else to go where he can get DID phone numbers from several nations for its company with a great reputation to operate effectively...

Too Late to Click Undo, Mailing List Etiquette

Mailing list etiquette says when you wish to start a new topic on a mailing discussion list, feel free to click "Reply," check the "To" to make sure it is correct, get rid of the previous digest of unrelated messages, change the subject line as needed, and proceed. I send a big thank you to "Nice Guy on  Asterisk-Biz List" for reminding me. Slow down ...

On Tue, Mar. 30, 2010 at 4:08 PM, Suzanne Bowen wrote:
Nice Guy on Asterisk-Biz List, you are right. I changed the subject line but forgot to delete the digest below before clicking "send." I appreciate the reminder of good list etiquette. Wish I could do "undo."

Thank you,
Suzanne Bowen
VP Marketing, Super Technologies, Inc., DIDX.net

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 3:56 PM, Nice Guy on Asterisk-Biz List wrote:
Please don't reply to the digest if you want to post to the list.. It makes a larger than necessary posting in everyone's email box.
Thanks,
-Nice Guy on Asterisk-Biz List

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 3:02 PM, Suzanne Bowen wrote:
Quick note to Asterisk-Biz list ...
http://www.didx.net/ wholesale phone number marketplace where vendor rating is 0-8 with 8 as highest and 4 and above as good:

Vendor 700328 offers Auckland, New Zealand DID phone numbers .99 USD (99 cents) per month, zero NRC. Vendor rating is 5. 5,000 minutes and 1 channel is included.

Vendor 705156 offers MX City, Monterrey, and Guadalajara DID phone numbers $3 USD per month, $2 NRC. Vendor rating is 8. 10,000 minutes and 2 channels are included.

We are able to keep these good rates especially when the volume of sales is right, so we hope you'll take advantage.

Complete list of DID areas available are at http://www.didx.net/did showing the lowest rates available. Please keep in mind that most of the DIDs have more than one vendor and therefore, more than one NRC, MRC, features available such as caller id, sms, fax t38, and so on; number of minutes included, channels included, and chance to buy or not buy additional channels.

Also this is a blog post that is a combination of tips shared by successful DIDX buyers with me: http://blogs.didx.net/2009/11/model-of-didx-wholesale-sip-did.html. Wishing the best for your and your customers this year.

Thank you,
Suzanne Bowen
VP Marketing, Super Technologies, Inc., DIDX.net
Blogs: http://blogs.didx.net, http://blog.tmcnet.com/monetizing-ip-communications/,
Media channels: http://www.tmcnet.com/channels/did-ddi/, http://www.didx.net/podcast, http://www.techistan.net
Meet us at partnered events: http://didx.net/events/
What's this thing called DIDX? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0PnkCMadO8

+ about four notebook worth of pages of a digest of emails for the day from the Asterisk-Biz List.

I will learn to slow down.




... browse some of our team's other blogs at http://blogs.didx.net/ and http://blog.tmcnet.com/monetizing-ip-communications/. Find out how to get your telephone company to offer phone numbers from around the world. You're welcome to comment, contribute, and collaborate any time.

How to Get 24/7 WiFi No Matter Where You are on iPod Touch, asks Husband

My social network on Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin and other offline and online groups are full of mobile experts, so ... my husband is asking: "FB universe, especially those with iPod Touch players...I love the apps I can download, WiFi capability, etc. But it's a bummer in an area where free WiFi network doesn't exist or is impossible to connect. Anyone know of a WiFi "card" which could plug into the input at the bottom? Please don't tell me to purchase an iPhone, I'm not ready to part with my cell provider...yet."


Thank you, http://the-gadgeteer.com.




... browse some of our team's other blogs at http://blogs.didx.net and http://blog.tmcnet.com/monetizing-ip-communications/. Find out how to get your telephone company to offer phone numbers from around the world. You're welcome to comment, contribute, and collaborate any time.

Co-operative Republic of Guyana DID phone numbers and telco trivia

http://www.didx.net has several thousand telco and voip company wholesale members with a goal to buy and sell DID and DDI phone numbers. The most recent request is for Co-operative Republic of Guyana DID phone numbers. Requesting wireless and wired telcos and voip companies with this to contact care@didx.net with Co-operative Republic of Guyana in the subject line. This is wholesale level only. See http://www.didx.net/interop to understand the terms and interop testing steps to get an instant interconnect with thousands of other service providers for origination (DID/DDI).

BTW, for the trivia buffs...
Telephone Systems in Guyana
Telephones: 110,120 main telephone lines (2005)
Telephones mobile cellular: 281,400 (2005)
General Assessment: fair system for long-distance service
Domestic: microwave radio relay network for trunk lines; fixed-line teledensity is about 15 per 100 persons; many areas still lack fixed-line telephone services; mobile-cellular teledensity reached 37 per 100 persons in 2005
International: country code - 592; tropospheric scatter to Trinidad; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean)


... browse some of our team's other blogs at http://blogs.didx.net and http://blog.tmcnet.com/monetizing-ip-communications/. Find out how to get your telephone company to offer phone numbers from around the world. You're welcome to comment, contribute, and collaborate any time.

Nigerian IT & Telecom Networks on Linkedin DID Discussion

Before 2010, I have plans to interview directors of "communications comissions" of different African nations which will be posted at http://www.didx.net/podcast. I met a few of them at ITW 2008 and ITEXPO East 2009 whom I have stayed in touch with. Right now, there is a discussion on LinkedIn about Zain's choice of Aircom to produce 2G and 3G in Nigeria. The conversation has turned to Nigerian DID needed on DIDX.net. Would you join that discussion group on Linkedin and help out? It's at http://www.linkedin.com/newsArticle?viewDiscussion=&articleID=83824627&gid=1777935.

... browse some of our team's other blogs at http://blogs.didx.net and http://blog.tmcnet.com/monetizing-ip-communications/. You're welcome to comment, contribute, and collaborate any time.

Secretary Clinton Uses VOIP To Exchange Greetings With 1000 Rural Women

Rural Gujarat, India women artisans show Hilary Clinton how they communicate via voice over Internet with each other. She in turn shared hellos with thousands of women the same service out of Mumbai. The photo is listed here on Flickr.

... browse some of our team's other blogs at http://blogs.didx.net and http://blog.tmcnet.com/monetizing-ip-communications/. You're welcome to comment, contribute, and collaborate any time.

Specific Critique for ITEXPO Conferences, Flat Planet Phone and VoicePulse

Specific and truthful critiques like these of IP communications related conferences are what we are looking for. Check out the ones from Moshe Maeir and Ravi Sakaria, especially. (To sign up to participate in ITEXPO West Sept. 1-3, 2009 go to http://www.itexpo.com.

ITEXPO East 2009 was a breath of fresh air. Despite beginning to feel suffocated by the endless rhetoric of a worsening economic climate and a decrease in buying power, what VoicePulse experienced at ITEXPO was a real world example that businesses are in fact ready to buy. As a Voice over IP service provider, the amount of booth traffic VoicePulse received and the qualified leads generated from ITEXPO only reassured us in our belief that the market is truly ripe for a serious commitment to VoIP. When it comes to IP telephony, what were once only business concepts have now matured into specific business models that are reshaping the communications market. Not suprisingly, VoicePulse was able to witness that first hand at this conference.
Ravi Sakaria, President & CEO, VoicePulse

The qualified leads we received at the show were beyond our expectations. It was the one of the most focused shows we have been at in years!
Greg Hamburg, Director of Sales, Voipswitch

A whopping 61.5% of the attendees fit our customer profile. Resellers, VARs and Service Providers who offer Hosted PBX services
to the SMB market. We went home with piles of solid leads. ITEXPO is the show that brings in real buyers.
Moshe Maeir, Chief Flattening Officer, The Flat Planet Phone Co.

Well what a surprise I got! When I arrived on Tuesday the whole place had a buzz about it. Everyone I met was upbeat and energized. At every exhibition session we took received leads in volume as high as we have ever seen at ITEXPO.
Chris Gravett, Sales and Marketing Director, Aculab plc

It was absolutely awesome and we did fantastically at the show. Get me a good spot for September!!!
Don Palmer, CEO, SIP Print

Our DIDXchange is a media partner for ITEXPO West 2009. I believe that this conference offers a chance to do any of the following...
1. Gather information and conduct research
2. Develop business and find new ideas for new business ideas
3. Connect with IP communications software developers and "monetizers" for a healthy and versatile idea of where you want to go next
4. Socialize with people in your industry to get to know them better
5. Attend the paid conference sessions which are well worth it
6. Get certified in different areas
7. Learn about voip, foip, hd communications, 4g wireless and more and how you can use any of them for your business, home, or entrepreneurial mashup

for any of the following...
1. Consumers and families
2. Developers
3. Monetizers
4. Entrepreneurs
5. Carriers wired and wireless
6. Social and business community portals, media, and marketing groups
7. Students and professors
and more!

See you there.

... browse some of our team's other blogs at http://blogs.didx.net and http://blog.tmcnet.com/monetizing-ip-communications/. You're welcome to comment, contribute, and collaborate any time.

List of Asterisk Supported VoIP Services

This list will be updated as I gather more of the Asterisk supported VoIP services. You can message me on Linkedin or Facebook with your suggestions. Be sure to point to this blog article.

Didx.net with over 12,500 wholesale members to buy and sell among 60 countries with a free UK and USA DID for testing.
Ip-pabx
JetNumbers
MyDivert with USA and international call forwarding, each DID with zero setup fee.
SuperFax
SuperIVR
Virtualphoneline.com with connection to Facebook and opp for a free USA phone number.
VoIPSWITCH for ip-pbx, switch, voip solution and even a Vippie mobile app!




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From VON to DIDX to Cluecon - Meet Bill Sandiford

Bill Sandiford is a DIDX member since 2005, and we can thank a 2005 VON show for our first meeting. Bill shares with us at Cluecon how he found out about DIDX and his excitement of being at Cluecon 2009 in Chicago. Bill is with Telnet, an early adopter and innovator!


... browse some of our team's other blogs at http://blogs.didx.net and http://blog.tmcnet.com/monetizing-ip-communications/. You're welcome to comment, contribute, and collaborate any time.

DIDX Members' Voice Mashups and Business Models

Thomas Howe's definition of voice mashup (listed on Youtube) ... an application that is written on top of other services usually involving APIs somewhere that integrates voice with something else that makes that something else more valuable. A few of the many examples among 12,500 DIDX members of Voice Mashups are listed at...
1. http://www.didx.net/podcast
2. http://www.tmcnet.com/channels/did-ddi/
3. http://didx.net/casestudy/


... browse some of our team's other blogs at http://blogs.didx.net and http://blog.tmcnet.com/monetizing-ip-communications/. You're welcome to comment, contribute, and collaborate any time.

Jack Materna's 2007 VoIP Vendor SLA Showdown

I'd like to see Jack do more VoIP Showdowns. I've read each one as soon as they were posted. It's been a while, Jack. Check out his 2007 Multi VoIP Vendor SLA Showdown among Qwest, Axiowave (gone in 2005 I thought), Virtela, Verio and Internap. Include the opportunity to leave a public comment on the showdowns instead of only offering to email comments and responses.

Get involved with Internet Telephony online and offline!

Since 1998, INTERNET TELEPHONY has been a powerful force in the IP communications space. That's one year before our company Super Technologies, Inc. started up.

Its product-focused editorial creates a platform to put readers in the frame of mind to think about evaluating and purchasing products. It's a big favorite worldwide among early adopters, entrepreneurs, incumbents, wireless operators and more in the IP communications-related industry.

INTERNET TELEPHONY boasts more than 225,000 readers each month* and offers strong online impact with its accompanying website, TMCnet, which attracts nearly three million unique visitors each month, according to Webtrends. We at DIDX have always been impressed with the interaction promoted, the quality of the advertisements and articles and decided last yeart to sponsor an advertisement on a monthly basis.

I'm copying the following from an email I received this morning that gives you a glimpse of the June 2009 issue:

The IP-Enabled Contact Center
IP-enabling the contact center continues the revolution that started when computer intelligence was first applied to call centers in the computer telephony era of the 1980s and 1990s. The IP-enabled contact center brings many new features and capabilities including Unified Communications, and essentially converts your entire organization into an extended call center. Benefits include reduced costs, enhanced visibility, supervision, and all-around management. The flexibility of IP communications allows for multiple configurations of contact centers, such as the typical hybrid VoIP/circuit-switched center, single-site/multi-site VoIP, home based agents, and off-shore outsourcing based on VoIP connections.

Designing the Mobile Enterprise
Unless you're starting a totally new operation, supporting your increasingly mobile workforce typically requires you to work with your existing equipment and services. Fortunately, there are now many ways to project advanced IP PBX and business functions out to road warriors and other roaming employees.

Billing
Many carriers and service providers don't quite realize that they're in the business of accurately billing customers. Their lapses in this area made possible a whole industry, Telecom Expense Management. But many companies now exist with advanced products and services that not only can help service providers, but take the concept of billing to a whole new level.

Location-Based Services
Location-Based Services (LBSs) are becoming increasingly popular, perhaps the most familiar being those involving navigation, e.g. Google Maps for your Phone or Nokia Maps. And there are such things as geo-tagging photos and mobile social networking. The original LBS was E911 service, mandated by the FCC. Nearly all present-day LBS applications are based on GPS or other workarounds, not on operator provided location services.

Open Source Selection Criteria
Open source telephony has revolutionized the world of small- and medium-sized business communications. Digium's Asterisk platform was the first cost-effective way to provide big-enterprise telephony functionality to smaller organizations. While the basic versions of such software is free, business users will want to deal with companies that provide support and additional features for a reasonable fee.

Note that TMCnet is a media partner for *Cluecon 2009 and Digium Asterisk World, conferences that focus with emphasis on open source developers but also entrepreneurs and more. See www.cluecon.com and http://www.tmcnet.com/voip/conference/east-09/digium-asterisk-world.htm. Both are extremely effective experiences.

Related URLs:
Get a subscription now: http://www.tmcnet.com/voip/

Begin your own successful advertisement: http://images.tmcnet.com/mkt/media-kit/IT_Rate_Card_2008.pdf

Submit an original article and apply for publication: http://images.tmcnet.com/mkt/media-kit/IT-Editorial-Calendar-2009.pdf

Contact a professional sales representative at TMCnet: http://www.tmcnet.com/tmcnet/contacts.aspx#IT

* DIDX is a media partner for Cluecon 2009. Special note to DIDX.net members: check your DIDX email soon for how important you are to Cluecon 2009.

ITEXPO East 2009 Numbers More Than 20% over 2008

Economic crisis? What crisis?

Even with the current "economic slowdown," ITEXPO East / Digium | Asterisk World / 4G Wireless Evolution, its registration numbers is up 20% over 2008. Sign up to meet up with the movers and shakers from all over the world in beautiful Miami Beach, Florida set for Feb. 2-4, 2009 at www.itexpo.com. Registration available now!

We're excited to offer our DIDXchange and its media channel as a supporting organization sponsor. See you there.

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SmartBooth™ Tool with NXTcomm08, very effective

Bdmetrics provided the SmartBooth™ in the myNXTcomm portals very effectively. I finally got the chance to view the statistics and to make further contacts with current clients and customers as well as those showing potential interest. It's been madly busy with friends in need and business of DIDX and Supertec.

These companies used the SmartBooth™ tool like I did. I like it. NXTcomm08's goal was to increase the number of quality leads that NXTcomm08 yields and help turn those leads into sales. (The other thing I liked about NXTcomm08 is that they stayed in touch with us DIDXchange as their media sponsor beginning one year before the June 2008 conference and are still in touch. They treat their sponsors whether media or other with respect and appreciation. Another conference that does a great job at this is ITEXPO.)

Click on the Performance Statistics and see:
1. Number of targeted attendees my company reached through SmartBooth: 1,865

2. Number of attendees who included my company on their Event Plans through SmartBooth: 1,592

3. Number of attendees that viewed my company's products and services online through SmartBooth: 1,401

We're flattered, but even more important are excited about collaborating with partipants of NXTcomm08 in together moving our and their businesses forward to ... in the end... make more global end-users happier than ever!

Answer this IAX2 and/or SIP and DID survey on Facebook

1. Sept. 23 - 25, 2008 Astricon Conference
Sign up at http://www.didx.net/astricon2008/.
DIDXchange is sponsoring the Code Zone Reception on Tues PM Sept 23 and also giving a lightning talk with some of you on DIDX and IAX2.

Whether you are using IAX2 or SIP or both, please reply to this survey asap. Just copy the Qs and paste them to me on email or on Facebook message with your name, company, if you have a DIDX account ... include that number, cell phone and email for contacting. Each person who uses IAX2, SIP, or a combination AND also DIDX who answers this survey fully with complete contact information to me on Facebook or my regular email will be entered in a drawing for $100 gas card or a $100 American Airlines voucher.

- do you use IAX2, SIP, a combination, or other? please describe.
- what is the efficiency gain or loss from using IAX2 if you use it?
- how do your IAX2 vs. SIP customers differ in QoS, call setup time, complaints, etc.
- what roadblocks has IAX2 helped you overcome?
- what roadblocks has IAX2 introduced?
- other issues relevant to you and your customer/vendor's use of Asterisk and IAX2

2. Sept 16-18, 2008, Internet Telephony West 2008, Los Angeles, CA
Sign up at http://www.tmcnet.com/voip/conference for free expo plus passes and discounts on conference passes. See past videos and pictures of past ITWest conferences at http://didx.net/itexpowest08/!

DIDX is a media sponsor of ITWest 2008 and an exhibitor at booth 153. Please respond with your name, email address, cell phone and DIDX account number if you'd like to meet up for a business development meeting, just for you. Watch for another email about the DIDXchange party during ITWest 2008!

Turn a Webpage into a handset: Rethink at Ecomm 2008

I'd been reading Tim Panton on the Asterisk-biz list and met him in person at Ecomm 2008. A refreshing positive communicator. Not one to dis every other poster. Really impressed with his knowledge and decided to record him describing what he's up to.

He's turning the web page into a handset, by embedding a lightweight cross browser softphone into web sites and mashing it up with the rest of the site.

Sept 10, 2007 Free Hugs Day in VoipDom

Just read USA Today's "Is 9/11 becoming just another calendar date?" by Rick Hampson.

Second paragraph, "You might forget the date Hiroshima was bombed or Kennedy was shot."

Why might we forget these dates? Who does remember? Japanese remember. The military remember. Social Studies teachers remember. Those who fought in World War II... Those whose loved ones were effected first-hand or second-hand by any of the above three dates. Those who live in the country that was violated.

I woke up this morning remembering I have a husband, son, adopted son, two sisters, one brother, father, step-mother, uncle and several nieces and nephews.

They are all alive. Many many around the world, though... woke up this morning where one or more of their loved ones are gone because of some strife (that is often far estranged from themselves) among religions, big business, ethnicity or just plain world control. ALL OVER THE WORLD: USA, Australia, Malaysia, United Kingdom, Thailand, Pakistan, China, Switzerland, Iraq, South Africa and every corner of our world.

We are not unique in these truths. We are alike. Today is September 10, 2007, Free Hugs Day. Share a hug with everyone you meet. That hug might prevent a catastrophe.

Steven Cayona and I are at Internet Telephony West today at the Los Angeles Convention Center learning from my friends and competitors who are the same people. We'll hear TMC president Rich Tehrani and ABP president Robert Messer discuss how to sell VoIP, Ingate and Trixbox's workshops, and other IP communications presentations.

We'll see you at the DIDXchange booth 134 at 4:15 PM where we are sharing free hugs, answering technical and sales questions, and taking entries (from those with a SIP solution) for our Sept 11, 2007 Tuesday 5 PM drawing for 500 free Ohio, USA direct inward dialing phone numbers to jumpstart an Internet protocol-based communications business!

My Dad always says, "Do unto others before they do unto you." So, when I see you, you're getting a hug! Thank you, Dave Matthews Band, for letting us visualize.