April 2008

Asterisk was created back in 1999 by Digium Inc’s Mark Spencer as an open source PBX telphony applications system. As the most inexpensive telephone system available, Asterisk is free and operates on low cost Linux servers and other options on a range of various hardware.

New search engine TripleMe.com has added more advanced searching capabilities to help users easily sort results from the top 3 major search engines. Displaying search results from Google, Yahoo and MSN, TripleMe has grown in popularity with over 1,000 unique visitors using the engine per day.

According to a Friday filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission the company is planning to lay off approximately 4,650 employees. The company said the 1.5 percent decrease in its workforce is “the next step in streamlining its operations.

The majority of the job cuts will be at the managerial level and that the overall headcount is expected to remain stable throughout 2008. The company also stated in the SEC report that it will continue to seek and hire talent to support the main growth areas of the company.

With a focus to become a more prominent player in the small business VoIP market, Microsoft plans to release a powerful service pack to dramatically improve its Response Point software.

Available this summer, the free service pack update will offer far more VoIP capabilities to current and future users than the system currently does. The software giant hopes the more sophisticated features will offer a compelling new reason to pick or stick with their phone system technology.

MyRapidMD, a personal mobile content developer, is announcing the release of Emergency Service Profile (ESP) v2 for cell phones.

The proprietary ESP application allows users to create their own Emergency Service Profile installed on their cell phone. The potentially lifesaving feature can provide first responders at the scene of an accident access to your photo identification and information that could be crucial in treating the emergency situation, and this can be done without a service connection.