Rattler: VAS developer (SMS, MMS, WAP, WEB, USSD, IVR, VoIP)

In honor of the heroes of small business in the surrounding area, the Chamber of Commerce of Huntsville/Madison County held its annual tribute to the area’s small businesses on Aug. 31, while also honoring non-profit organizations, young professionals and outstanding local businesses. Digium is proud to announce that Charlie Wilson was the [...]

This one has been a long time coming. A new CDR stats package from Star2Billing to replace the 7 year old stalwart for viewing Asterisk call detail records.

Ok, bear with me on this one. If you understand all the ramifications, FreePBX has split to a new project called BlueBox contained within the 2600hz project. This obviously has implications for Trixbox that uses FreePBX to provide quite a bit of functionality.

RazorQuote has sent us a press release about the launch of RazorQuotePBP, a native Asterisk module that allows any Asterisk connected device to accept credit card payments.

CloudVox is running a competition for people to receive 250 dollars for writing up some documentation for Open Source applications on CloudVox - first in first served.

John Todd has posted a note about the upcoming AstriCon conference in Washington, DC, and the innovation awards.

Ben Klang has posted a note about the latest release of Adhearsion - a framework for developing Asterisk based solutions using Ruby.

The Asterisk Development Team has announced the release of Asterisk 1.8.0-beta4.

Mark Summer explores this year’s conference theme, “Asterisk: The World is Calling,” by sharing his experiences using the telephony platform to help improve local economies and quality of life around the world Asterisk is changing the world, not just in the limited confines of  business-oriented UC communications, but in real, tangible, and life changing [...]

The 15 Commandments of IVR Commandment #6: “Understand What Constitutes a ‘Prompt’” This series of “commandments”, guiding you to writing clear, easy-to-understand IVR prompts is venturing into the “fine-tuning” mechanics of constructing prompts – this latest commandment: “Understand What Constitutes a Prompt” is an important aspect to grasp in order to make sure that all your options [...]

John Todd has posted a note about the AstriDevCon conference which occurs within the Astricon conference.

Guest blogger Mark Essayian from KME Systems, Inc. Change your mind! Switchvox resellers already know how powerful the product’s features are, so I thought I would stress how powerful the sales process can be from both the reseller and corporate customer perspectives. Here’s one of the messages you should understand about Switchvox: “You can always change your mind.” A phone [...]

An update on the 15 tips for creating effective IVR systems by Allison Smith - the Voice of Asterisk.

Hi all, I have added a like button for news stories and the ability to like the Facebook Daily Asterisk News page.

We hope that you have been enjoying the IVR Clinic from our guest blogger, Allison Smith.  The fifteen-part-series of blogs is designed to assist in the writing of smooth-flowing, efficiently-working IVR systems. As the voice of Asterisk, Allison Smith, has a wealth of experiences recording IVR prompts and has unique insight into the [...]

Randy has posted a note with a link to some funny recordings made by Allison Smith - the voice of Asterisk.

The Asterisk Development Team has announced the release of Asterisk 1.8.0-beta3.

The Asterisk Development Team has announced the release of Asterisk 1.6.2.11.

The Asterisk Development Team has announced the release of Asterisk 1.4.35.

The 15 Commandments of IVR Commandment #5: “Front-Load Important Information” I enjoy telling the story of the IVR I recently voiced for a large Cardiology consortium, with offices located across the Southern US. They, unfortunately, were guilty of violating #2 of the “15 Commandments of IVR – Thou Shalt Not Create Fake Mailboxes”, which meant they had [...]