Archive for the ‘Skype’ Category

Introducing TropoVBX

Wednesday, November 16th, 2011

As you may recall, Disruptive Technologies recently extended the capabilities of OpenVBX (the open source cloud PBX software) to run on our Tropo cloud communications platform. The original blog post announcing this project was entitled, “Jailbreaking OpenVBX“. This title was chosen carefully because at the time of the post, OpenVBX only ran on a single cloud platform. Disruptive Technologies was able to extend the communications layer of this application to not only add support for Tropo but also simplify future efforts involved in adding support for other platforms such as Asterisk, FreeSwitch, and others.

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Writing and Deploying a Tropo App with an iPad

Tuesday, September 27th, 2011

I recently found myself at a conference without WIFI and i wanted to write and deploy a new Tropo voice application to the cloud. Armed with my 3g iPad, this task was a snap! See for yourself…

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Jailbreaking OpenVBX

Wednesday, September 21st, 2011

Remember when the iPhone was only available on AT&T?   That was true until October 11, 2009 when a young coder named geohot (and friends) released the first iPhone/iPod jailbreak.  Suddenly iPhones weren’t tied to to just AT&T…now you could give AT&T the boot and choose Verizon or T-Mobile as your service provider.  Score!

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Extending GoogeVoice with Tropo

Friday, May 13th, 2011

We are always excited to see developers using Tropo to extend GoogleVoice functionality and features by adding things like SIP and Call Forwarding and Call-In enhancements.  Terry Swanson (@FunnyBoy243) is one of these cool developers who wrote 2 of these extensions and opensourced them for others to share and contribute: (more…)

Routing GoogleVoice to Tropo and OpenVoice

Wednesday, April 27th, 2011

Do you have a GoogleVoice phone number?  Would you like to route it to your Tropo application?  

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Tropo-Powered Hamradio Callsign Lookup App

Wednesday, April 6th, 2011

Ham radio or amateur radio communications has been around since the early 1900s.  Ham radio technology has kept pace with traditional communications and may even be the only technology that allows people to communicate in natural disasters.  Ham radio operators can communicate over very far distances using HF (high frequencies) as well as through satellites via AMSAT and even using VoIP over the Internet using EchoLink, IRLP, or D-STAR!

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How to Build a VoIP-Based Baby Monitor

Thursday, February 17th, 2011

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Heroku and Tropo Like Peanut Butter and Chocolate!

Tuesday, September 28th, 2010

Peanut butter and chocolate!

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How-To: Distinguish PSTN, Skype, iNum, and SIP in your Tropo applications

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

Here at the secret layers of Tropo Support we often see similar questions raised by our developer base. We pay attention to these trends, since they often indicate that something may be lacking in our documentation.   If we do find something is lacking we of course want to address by expanding on concepts or adding additional examples to help shore up our doc sets and help out our developers.

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