Skype 5.0 beta two is already available for download; it includes 10-way video calls, automatic call recovery and a cleaner user interface. The update is also said to improve call quality and includes a number of bug fixes to make the overall experience much smoother.

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The MTX-3 offers seamless interaction with AV and environmental systems, providing true feedback of all settings, and displaying metadata information for all digital media.  Crestron’s infiNET EX wireless technology provides reliable two-way communications throughout a residence or commercial structure utilising a 2.4 GHz mesh network.

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 Cisco is reportedly looking to buy Skype before the Internet phone provider goes public.  The blog TechCrunch posted over the weekend that Cisco made an offer for Skype before it completed its IPO process. The site attributed the unconfirmed information to "reliable sources."

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he Asterisk Development Team has announced the release of Asterisk PBX 1.6.2.10.  This release is available for immediate download at
http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/

The release of Asterisk 1.6.2.10 resolves several issues reported by the community and would have not been possible without your participation.

The following are a few of the issues resolved by community developers:

 * Allow users to specify a port for DUNDI peers.
   (Closes issue #17056. Reported, patched by klaus3000)

 * Decrease the module ref count in sip_hangup when SIP_DEFER_BYE_ON_TRANSFER is
   set.
   (Closes issue #16815. Reported, patched by rain)

 * If there is realtime configuration, it does not get re-read on reload unless
   the config file also changes.
   (Closes issue #16982. Reported, patched by dmitri)

 * Send AgentComplete manager event for attended transfers.
   (Closes issue #16819. Reported, patched by elbriga)

 * Correct manager variable 'EventList' case.
   (Closes issue #17520. Reported, patched by kobaz)

In addition, changes to res_timing_pthread that should make it more stable have
also been implemented.

For a full list of changes in the current release, please see the
ChangeLog:

http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/ChangeLog-1.6.2.10

Thank you for your continued support of Asterisk!

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Tablets or just gadgets in the broad sense that do our work is finally coming close to being a reality especially with the Cisco tablet that has been released recently. Seated at just one single area of the house, the tablet provides the user with complete control of all the other utility items in the house.

Named the Cisco Home Energy Controller, the tablet is an even more specialized product from Cisco that comes hot on the heels of the other tablet offering from the same company in the form of the Cius that has been built purely with a business scenario in mind.

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The U.S. Federal Communications Commission reports that there are 21 million VoIP subscriptions stateside, and that the vast majority of them are residential customers. But it didn't count Skype subscribers.

These figures were announced by the FCC to accompany the release of its highly detailed 31-page report, "Local Telephone Competition". The report, however, isn't exactly what you might call "fresh" — although it was released just last Friday, its data set ends on December 31, 2008.

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