Last week’s Howler Technologies giveaway, 10 X G.729 Howlet Licenses:
Winners: Blake Ray – Saturn Networks, Jakub Klausa, Maxim Samo

This week’s Polycom IP 335 from e4strategies: Mike Tabbert

Book “Building Telephony Systems with Open SER” from Packt Publishing: @FearNoIdea and “TheDavidFactor”

The contest consisted of finding the movie whose soundtrack featured the VoIP-appropriate song “Calling You”. Karl was first to type  “Bagdad Cafe” in our IRC channel #voip-users-conference on Freenode.net. The song is a beautiful, haunting piece of music and I would like to use an excerpt from time to time in our opening or closing theme.

Thanks again to Tony Stankus, Product Manager of Emerging Technologies Gigaset Communications USA, LLC for providing this phone as a prize and for being a great guest. I am counting on Tony to come back and tell us when the phone features evolve, which they do from time to time.

Early on, we spoke about the lack of a mute button on the S675IP, and lo and behold, they added one to firmware, which is easy to update. The phone shows a message when new firmware is ready, and asks if you want to update. See the original post for more articles on these phones.

Polycom IP450

Congratulations to Barry (“beek”), winner of the Polycom ip450 phone kindly donated to VUC by e4strategies.com

I am trying to index the VUC Delicious Links page to make it easier to document what we discuss. I am now tagging each article with a date of ther session in the form  VUC-2009-04-10 so search for those if you need something specific to a session. I’m also trying to keep transcripts of all links so it will be easier to add them.