Source: andyabramson.blogs.com

Pal Aswath Rao has made his move into the Enterprise 2.0 space and submitted EnThinnai for the LaunchPad competition.

The "autonomous communications" platform has been a passion and work of love by our very intelligent pal for a few years now, and if for no reason beyond sheer friendship, I want to see this get its opportunity to be discovered. Aswath has a very solid idea EnThinnai, so while it is in its formative stages it’s goal of making communications between peers easier certainly is timely.

Source: www.voip-news.com

It’s a nasty joke that SIPVicious warns of in this post: Swatters are using VoIP to confuse caller ID and create fake emergencies (and real headaches) for homeowners. Who DOES that?

Jangel is offering free calls if you are willing to put up with ads. Read about it on The VoIP Weblog.

There’s a new version of Fring available, according to Mobile Pakistan’s Blog. The post says that the new version fixes several bugs and whatnot.

Source: voipcentral.org

Cisco Systems has started up a new program called SWAT to integrate all kinds of emergency communications, such as 911 emergency dialing, radio interoperability, satellite, wireless, weather alerts and video.

IP based SWAT program carries Cisco Instant and Mobile Integrated Communications Solution(IMICS) to assist police, fire and other emergency response agencies for the timely installment of VoIP, Web connectivity and wireless hotspot capabilities.

Ciscos SWAT also provides latest and neighborhood-specific weather information through a Cisco partnership with AWS Convergence Technologies Inc. It runs the WeatherBug monitoring service.

Cisco claims that its SWAT program provides a mobile video kit for video surveillance and conferencing, and a field-deployable 911 service.

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