AudioCodes, traditionally known for their Media Gateway, Media Server and Session Border Controller solutions, has joined the IP phone bandwagon with the release of their 300HD IP-Phone Series that supports wideband codecs for superior sound quality.

The 300HD IP Phone series includes three new IP-Phones namely; the 310 HD, an entry level IP Phone that comes with a basic display, the 320HD, a premium endpoint that comes with a larger screen, and the 350HD executive phone that comes with a color LCD screen.

The 300HD IP Phone series IP phones  are based on AudioCodes VoIPerfect software and are all SIP-based, making them compatible with today’s leading IP-PBXs.

Wideband audio is gaining momentum in the VoIP industry and many vendors are now supporting G.722 wideband audio codec in their products.

Click here to read the full announcement.

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Samsung has released the RFG299 French Door Refrigerator with a 7-inch touchscreen LCD.  The new Refrigerator is the industry’s largest internal storage at 28.5 cu. ft. in a standard footprint. The 7″ LCD touchscreen allows owners to control the refrigerator’s temperature, monitor its water filter status, access integrated calendars, schedules, photos, nutrition facts and unit conversions. The RFG299 Refrigerator uses Energy Star compliant LED lighting for great energy savings and brighter lighting.

The Samsung RFG299 is now available in black and white and stainless platinum colors for $3,099.

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Stonevoice has created SkyStone Video, a unique product that allows video communications between Skype video enabled clients and enterprise video solutions from leading vendors like Cisco, Sony, and Polycom.

Skystone video offers the following advantages:

• Video capabilities with the highest quality and simplicity
• Full convergence: audio or video call can be placed to anyone (PSTN or remote user with Skype) directly from the employee desk phone or from a video conferencing room and a simply as a standard call
• Software based:
  • It contains an embedded evaluation, in order to try it before buying (what you see and experience is what you get!)
  • It can be installed on any windows based PC or Server meeting the hw/sw requirements (no need to buy a costly imposed appliance)
• IP based: interoperable with IP PBX’s and Video Conferencing Terminals natively on IP, using standard protocols: SIP and H.323 (seamless integration and no need for extra hardware modules)

Features

• Completely software based: runs on any Windows Server
• Multichannel support up to 8 concurrent calls per server
• Per port licensing, regardless the number of phones or users.
• User-friendly and GUI based: fast and simple to define rules, routes, speed dials:

Skype to Phone features (web click to dial)
Phone to Skype features (speed dial)
Phone to Skype out features

• Call Detail Records (CDR) for billing
• Configuration backup/restore tool
• Supports DTMF relay for both Skype->VoIP and VoIP->Skype calls
• Embedded VNC engine to connect to console directly from the web interface
• Together with SkyStoneACD module to provide video call-center functionalities with web click to dial to a single company Skype account.
• International Standards compliancy:

VoIP protocols: H.323 and SIP
Audio Codecs: G.711, G.729(A)
Video Codecs: H.261, H.263
Video Rates: 128 Kbps up to 1,5 Mbps
DTMF modes: RFC2833
Live Video Resolutions: QCIF (176×144), CIF (352×288)

For more information, please visit http://skystone.stonevoice.com.

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Another serious vulnerability has been found in Google’s Chrome web browser which allows an attacker to load a fake website while making it appear as legitimate website to the victims.

A Chinese security researcher named Liu Die Yu of the TopsecTianRongXin research lab in Beijing has disclosed a URL spoofing vulnerability found in Chrome web browser. Liu Die Yu also released a proof of concept that demonstrates how a legitimate URL can be forced into the address bar even if Chrome is not loading the actual URL.

This news comes after Google released a patch for their Chrome’s carpet bombing vulnerability.

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Analog Devices launched the new Blackfin BF51x  series, the newest members of their  convergent-processor family.  The Blackfin convergent-processors have superior ability to reduce cost, power consumption, software complexity, and development schedules in a broad spectrum of mobile lifestyle, industrial and instrumentation, portable medical diagnostic and VoIP telephony applications. Blackfins are commonly used in Asterisk- based VoIP appliances like Astfin and Digium AA50.

The newest members of the Blackfin family are the BF512, BF514, BF516 and BF518, they are all  single-core convergent processors that surpass outdated, heterogenous MCU+DSP approaches in reducing part-count, system cost, board space, and power consumption. These new processors are available at clock speeds of up to 400 MHz and include 116 kBytes of RAM plus an optional 4 Mbits of serial (SPI) flash memory. Each also integrates Lockbox™ security for code and content protection.

The BF51x processors feature high clock rates and low power dissipation per unit of processing (MMACs/mW), and like traditional MCUs, these convergent processors are OS and compiler-friendly.

Click here for more details.

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Motorola has introduced the Motorola AURA, a cellphone made of 700 individual components, inspired by watches and handcrafted design housed in a stainless steel.

The swivel designed Motorola Aura has numerous impressive features like unique circular display with 300dpi resolution, quad-band GSM/EDGE radios, 2-megapixel camera with video recording capability, Bluetooth v2.0, m­i­c­roUSB p­ort­, m­ult­i­m­ed­i­a player, m­i­c­roSD card­ slot­ an­d­ up­ t­o 7.3 hours of t­alk t­i­m­e or 400 hours i­n­ st­an­d­by. The AURA has a 16-million color circular display protected by a 62-carat sapphire crystal lens.

The 140 gram Motorola Aura also features CrystalTalk technology that delivers supreme clarity and deep resonance to every single conversation.

Pri­c­ed­ at­ $1999.99,  the Motorola AURA wi­ll be avai­lable starting D­ec­em­ber 4.

Popularity: 6% [?]