telephony

Is Skype4Java still being developed?

Looks like the last release of this was back in 9/30/06. Is there still active development going on? Has anyone built a commercial-quality product on top of this? ...

Detect incomming call with Asterisk and who the call is going to

Hi Everyone, I'm currently writing a windows service that uses the Asterisk AMI to detect when a call is coming in and then perform a web request based on who the call is from and who it is going to. Does anyone know of an event in Asterisk that I could listen for the includes both of these details? I need the number of the person outsi...

Android delivering different Cell IDs (Neighboring Cell Info)

Hello. Using an Android Dev Phone 2, I'm using the GsmCellLocation.getCid() method to get the Cell ID on my network. When I run the command and get all the CellIDs for the NeighboringCellInfo I get this values: 597195726 597185722 597195718 597110191 597101100 597175726 I'm running this using the SDK 1.6. The problem is that...

Telephony RESTful API

I'm looking for a simple telephony API for use with Rails application. The application must be able to make a notification call through the API and receive confirmation code from the dialpad. ...

How can I call from my PC through my cisco ip phone?

Hi gurus, I am trying to call a telephone number fro my PC through my ip phone once my application completes its work. So I am searching for a way to access my ip phone from my PC. Please correct me if I am wrong or missing the obvious. On my PC in office selecting a phone in Microsoft office communicator and making calls from PC through...

How to know if i am successfully connected to my outgoing number in Android?

Need to know this so that i could send DTMF and that is going to be my second question! ...

Is the last digit of a phone number random?

I have a telephony app which has a prompt which requires user choice. I made the app select one of 10 different phone prompts based on the last digit of the caller's phone number. Then I measure whether the user responds to the prompt (accept) or decides to skip to the next step (reject). I thought this would work well enough as a random...

Telephone Number to Geolocation UK

Is there a service that provides latitude and longitude for UK phone numbers? For example: Query: 0141 574 xxx, Returns: (55.8659829, -4.2602205) [Glasgow City Centre] Allow me to stress that I am not looking for a reverse-directory-enquires. I am more interested in 'local area' for things like weather by phone or "Where's my nearest P...

telephone application programming on Linux

I'm a Linux user looking to write a program which will pick up the phone, dial a number, play a recording and record what the person on the other end of the line says and save it to an audio file. I will want to use the modem that came with my computer if possible. What should I use to write this program? ...

How Does iPhone Visual Voicemail Work From An Operator Perspective?

I'm hoping there are some Cell Phone Operator gurus here today. Would anyone be able to explain how Operators achieve the Visual Voicemail feature on the iPhone (and I assume other newer smart phones)? If a new cell phone operator that distributed SIM cards wanted to utilise the visual voicemail feature on unlocked iPhone's what servic...

Dealing with international phone numbers on iPhone

I have an app which uses contact data in the following ways: To send an SMS from the client To send an SMS from our server To upload a user's phone number to a database where others can match against it This works fine in the U.S. but internationalizing has a set of issues. These are my assumptions for making it work: #1 - Sending a...

Which cloud telephony services support external sip providers?

I've looked at tropo, twilio and cloudvox, plus another bunch. Most of these services provide their own entry points (PSTN, sip, IM), which is cool. Unfortunately I already have a local PSTN number that is redirected to a local SIP account. For business, performance and cost reasons (I'm outside the US) I don't want to simply redirect ...

What is the most standards compliant way to send a fax from an application?

From what I understand fax over VoIP is very unreliable due to the real-time requirements of the fax protocol. Simply using VoIP to send fax message to POTS-connected fax machines is hence not possible. Besides from proprietary fax API:s (such as sending fax messages via a company specific SOAP API), what standards based protocols are t...

Cell broadcast support on Android?

Does anyone know if there is a support for cell broadcast on Android? If yes, can anyone point me to any example that shows how to use it? (e.g. receive messages on some channel) Thank you. ...

Using USB telbox (USB-B2K) for calling over PSTN from PC

This one is a longshot but I'll give it a try anyway. I recently bought this USB Telbox device (AKA yealink USB-B2K). It's a device that connects to a PC over USB and to the PSTN (home telephony) and regular phone device over RJ11 cable. The device is used to direct incoming PSTN calls to the skype client running on the PC and to make c...

Query Android SMS Log

Is there a way to access and query the android SMS/MMS log? To clarify, the SMS/MMS Log is all the SMS/MMS messages sent by the host phone. It can be aquired by reading a cursor to the message inbox. ...

Getting Incoming Phone Numbers

Is it possible with some hardware to get the incoming calls and phone numbers from an ADSL line (in a windows application) ? I guess I need a driver program of a specific hardware doing this but I don't even know any term to make a search about this. ...

Android Loud speaker and call interception

Hi, I would like to know how to intercept incoming calls and activate loud speaker automatically. I read this class is used com.android.internal.telephony but I could not find propre documentation. Thanks for your help. ...

Open a web page when I receive an incoming call

We have a web application, and people have asked us if we can pop up screens when they get an incoming call on their PBX. I think that the easiest way to do this would be to have a small app that sat in the system tray and waited for a call using TAPI or TSAPI. When a call comes in, it would open a web page to a configured URL, passing ...

CTI Integration: What products are popular, and how can I invoke them? i.e. Cisco Call Manager?

I have a list of contacts on my webpage, and I'd like to offer the option to "call contact"... but I bet there are a dozen non-standard approaches to get dialtone, then there are all the variations of prefix dialing (Dial 9 to get outside line) What standard should I code to? Some of my clients do use Cisco Call Manager... ...