A low-cost, next-generation Internet telephony software and service provider, today announced that it has launched a SIP based IP-PBX service to consumers and small businesses.The service enables subscribers to establish a virtual telephone system and communicate free through the web, including video conferencing up to 5 extensions at a time, while calls to landline and mobile phones are priced at highly competitive VoIP rates.
As a SIP based system, this Smart VoIP service can also be downloaded to PC’s, cameras, iPhones, iPads, Android and Blackberry phones and other mobile phones using Microsoft Windows operating system, and offers IP security.
Other benefits of Smart IP-PBX system include easier
integration with business applications (the system can be integrated with CRM software to automatically bring up the customer profile of the caller) and economical call forwarding to anywhere in the world using SIP protocols. Unlimited video conferencing for up to five participants from smart phones, tablets, video phones and PCs is available for a small monthly fee.
BlackBerry customers waiting for the next-generation operating system will have to wait several months longer, the company announced late last week. The news sent its already-depressed shares tumbling and caused analysts to sound the death knell for the smartphone maker.
In its quarterly report last week, BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM) announced that its new QNX operating system (BlackBerry OS 10) would be delayed until the latter part of 2012.
That operating system was supposed to be RIM’s holy grail in competing with smartphones running Google Android and Apple’s iPhone, which have taken market share from the BlackBerry in recent years.
BlackBerry 10
The new operating system BlackBerry 10 runs on the back of QNX, which was developed by QNX Software Systems. RIM acquired QNX last year and aspired to use it for all of its new products.
by spo0nman under CC-SA BlackBerry 10 made its debut earlier this year on the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet computer. It has taken the company a long time to introduce smartphones.
So far, questionable features and weak sales have dogged the PlayBook. The tablet computer’s baffling lack of software to send e-mails was criticized by technology pundits at its introduction, and RIM said that the feature may not arrive until early 2012.
It was strange viewing the first part of “Top Boy” on Channel 4 set in London with a theme about drug dealing. There was a segment of the programme showing the feature drug dealer gang being robbed by an opposing gang of their drugs stash and their competitors for the same trade.
With all the money in the illicit drugs business the most surprising aspect of this was the lack of surveillance equipment to protect their distribution point. Why did they not install a modern Telephone system linked to CCTV system for protection. A door entry system , linked through the
telephone system and protect the access door.
The modern handsets have large enough screens that when connected to the telephone system the images of any wishing to enter the building will be projected from the CCTV cameras on to the handsets. The use of smartphones linked to the CCTV and Telephone system could further enhance protection.
Perhaps in later episodes of “Top Boy” more sophisticated methods are adopted and CCTCV and Telephone systems will be de rigueur….