“Modulis.ca, a Canadian leader in Asterisk based VoIP telephony solutions and installations is launching the Asterisk Advanced Training program in Canada starting in January 2012. Targeted at VoIP professionals and IT managers in corporations and governments, attendees will gain a thorough understanding of Asterisk and what it can do for their organization including how to install, configure, tune, and maintain a complete Asterisk PBX system. In addition they will be entitled to take the Digium Certified Asterisk Professional (dCAP) certification exam, allowing them to bring a new skill set to their career or organization.”

Read More: http://www.marketwatch.com

“Samsung shipped 27.8 million smartphones in the last quarter, taking 23.8 percent of the market, Milton Keynes, U.K.- based Strategy Analytics said in an e-mailed statement today. Apple’s 17.1 million shipments, comprising 14.6 percent of the market, pushed the Cupertino, California-based company to second place. Nokia Oyj (NOK1V) maintained its third position, it said.

Apple, which released its iPhone 4S this month, held the top spot for only one quarter after dislodging Espoo, Finland- based Nokia earlier this year. Samsung, based in Suwon, South Korea, has turned to Google Inc. (GOOG)’s Android software to boost sales of its Galaxy smartphones and tablet computers.”

Read more: http://www.bloomberg.com

“Oracle may use an internal Google email that the search giant fought to keep under wraps in a high stakes patent case over the Java programming language, a US judge has ruled.

Oracle sued Google last year, alleging the Web search leader’s Android mobile operating technology infringes Oracle’s Java patents.

In addition to those patent claims, Oracle also leveled copyright infringement claims against Google. Oracle acquired the Java programming language through its purchase of Sun Microsystems in 2010.”

Read more: http://www.itnews.com.au

The Asterisk Development Team is pleased to announce the release of DAHDI-Linux 2.5.0.2 and DAHDI-Tools 2.5.0.2.

2.5.0.2 is a bug fix release. It is recommended that current users of v2.5 to upgrade.

DAHDI-Linux 2.5.0.2, DAHDI-Tools 2.5.0.2, and DAHDI-Linux-Complete 2.5.0.1+2.5.0.1 are available for immediate download at:

http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/dahdi-linux
http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/dahdi-tools
http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/dahdi-linux-complete

Issues closed by this release:
DAHLIN-257: wcb4xxp shows hardware EC in /proc/dahdi/* for B410P although vpmsupport=0
DAHLIN-260: wctdm24xxp/base.c fails to compile in 2.6.16 kernel

The DAHDI-Linux short log from v2.5.0.1 is:

Shaun Ruffell (8):
dahdi: Decrease the initial coretimer delay to 4ms from 1 second.
wctdm24xxp, wcte12xp: Advertise VPMOCT032 presence in dahdi_span.devicetype.
dahdi: Check for master in DAHDI_STARTUP / resolves MeetMe regression.
wctdm24xxp: Set dahdi_span.devicetype string in one place.
wctc4xxp: Allow G723 SID frames to pass to the hardware decoder.
wct4xxp: Fix condition where hardware echo canceler erroneously mutes DTMF.
wcb4xxp: Do not show LASVEGAS2 as echocan name if vpmsupport is set to 0
dahdi: Move WARN_ON_ONCE from wctc4xxp driver to include/dahdi/kernel.h

Tzafrir Cohen (1):
xpp: fxs: bugfix for 2fxs+6fxo cards

The DAHDI-Tools short log from v2.5.0.1 is:

Shaun Ruffell (2):
dahdi_genconf: Assume spans with unknown term types are software selectable.
dahdi_genconf: Use ‘dahdi_scan’ to determine span_type for B410P cards.

And the diff stat for this release from v2.5.0.1 is:

drivers/dahdi/dahdi-base.c | 6 +++++-
drivers/dahdi/wcb4xxp/base.c | 2 +-
drivers/dahdi/wct4xxp/base.c | 2 –
drivers/dahdi/wctc4xxp/base.c | 21 ++++—————–
drivers/dahdi/wctdm24xxp/base.c | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++——–
drivers/dahdi/wcte12xp/base.c | 8 +++++++-
drivers/dahdi/xpp/card_fxs.c | 39 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++——–
include/dahdi/kernel.h | 13 +++++++++++++
8 files changed, 84 insertions(+), 38 deletions(-)

and for DAHDI-Tools:

xpp/perl_modules/Dahdi/Span.pm | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++–
1 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

For a full list of changes in these releases, please see the ChangeLog at
http://svn.asterisk.org/svn/dahdi/linux/tags/2.5.0.2/ChangeLog and
http://svn.asterisk.org/svn/dahdi/tools/tags/2.5.0.2/ChangeLog .

Issues found in this release can be reported in the
DAHDI-Linux [1] and DAHDI-Tools [2] projects at
https://issues.asterisk.org/jira

[1] https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/DAHLIN
[2] https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/DAHTOOL

Thank you for your continued support of Asterisk!

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