“A new report by the market research analysis firm IBISWorld, projects a long-term look at which 10 industries will be the strongest and the weakest. Voice over internet protocol providers top IBIS’ best industries list followed closely by retirement / pension plans, and biotechnology.”

“VoIP went from a non-existent field at the start of the past decade to holding the prime slot looking towards the future.”

Best Performing Industries In The Coming Decade (2010-2019)

Rank Best Performing Growth
1 Voice Over Internet Protocol Providers (VoIP) 149.6%
2 Retirement & Pension Plans 133.7%
3 Biotechnology 127.6%
4 eCommerce & Online Auctions 124.7%
5 Environmental Consulting 120.3%
6 Video Games 112.9%
7 Trusts & Estates 105.7%
8 Search Engines 100.9%
9 Recycling Facilities 80.9%
10 Land Development 72.7%

http://www.inc.com/news/articles/2010/01/best-and-worst-industries.html

We are please to announce the release of our ARP SysMaster Module. The Advanced Reseller Portal for SysMaster 2000 & VM Billing allows SM administrators to offer an externally hosted customer management portal for their resellers without the need for any additional modules. It support two types of users: Administrators (i.e. VM resellers accounts) and resellers (i.e. VM corporate accounts) giving SM operators the flexibility of 4 tier billing (SM Operator > Reseller > Corporate Acccount > End Users).

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Rumor has it SysMaster Corporation, a leading vendor of VoIP, IPTV & WiFi Solutions, is no more after being in business for over 10 years. The company downsized its US based staff earlier this month despite, from what we’ve heard, as having a profitable year.

There is however a silver lining to this story (pun intended). SysMaster has in fact, been taken over by Silver Line EOOD, a Bulgaria based company and it’s no coincidence the former owner of SysMaster & current owner of Silver Line are one in the same. As far as we know, Silver Line will continue developing & supporting the line of SysMaster products & has plans on expanding the business further.

The reason for the transition?
Down US economy? Management changes? Legal issues? Only Silver Line knows.

Nevertheless, we wish continued success to Silver Line in its new ventures and we will continue to provide training, support, consulting & installation services for your SysMaster and future Silver Line products.

Some more links!

English
http://www.pbxprompts.com/free_prompt_packages.html
http://www.openvoice.com.au/free/dl.php?OpenVoice-Free-2.0.tar.gz

http://www.voicevector.com/

In German?

http://www.greenable.de/index.php?web=asterisk

German Text to Speech IVR Generator

http://www.amooma.de/tts/

Spanish

http://www.elianna.com.ar/

New Zealand

http://voiceprompt.archnetnz.com/

A collection of 100 great articles, how tos and tutorials for all inspiring Asterisk professionals posted at nerdvittles.com.

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Another interesting post at voip-news.com listing the 102 Best Free Phone Services on the Web.

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An interesting article was posted at voip-news.com listing the top 25 VoIP innovations of 2008.

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Flowroute has posted Free IVR Prompts from the creative minds at Scrumption®.  The sets completely replace the stock voice for various systems and are available for your use and distribution under the OpenContent License (OPL) at no charge.

The set is from Ma Bell herself, Pat Fleet – the voice of AT&T for over 25 years.

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