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2011 : The Year in Review

December 22nd, 2011

Star2billing have had an incredible 2011 which seems to have flown by. We have new products that have been released, existing products updated, and other products under development.

Newfies-Dialer Launched

Work began on Newfies-Dialer at the beginning of the year, a mass voice broadcasting and auto-dialer software used for emergency broadcasting, telemarketing and a range other applications.

Newfies-Dialer Dashboard

We announced Newfies-Dialer in April, and after much development and testing, is ready for production. It is a well rounded product with a great deal of potential for all organisations and telecoms service providers that need to broadcast voice messages to a large number of people in a short space of time.

We have spent a lot of time on the documentation for developers and users alike, including a beginners guide so anyone can build a Newfies-Dialer system with our automated installation scripts and get involved.

CDR-Stats Updated

CDR-stats 1.4, the replacement for Asterisk-Stat used in FreePBX for CDR reporting, has been released, and again we provide installation scripts that have been tested on the major FreePBX based aggregations.

CDR-Stats - Call Statistics

The CDR-Stats tool is a useful addition to the IP-PBX systems integrator, as it allows provides detailed reporting on Call Data Records and Statistics for the end customer.

A2Billing Enhanced

A2Billing has also been updated, providing even more functionality, especially for DID resale. Updates have been made in respect of security and usability, and we would encourage anyone not using the latest version, currently 1.9.4, to upgrade.

A2Billing, VoIP Billing Software

New Development

We are still busy developing the next generation of A2Billing, as well as an SMS system designed for providing web based SMS messages to end customers and wholesale operations as well as adding new features and functionalities to Newfies-Dialer.

We are looking forward to 2012 and we would like to wish our customers and users, past present and future, the season’s greetings and a fantastic new year.

Yours,

Areski, Joe, and the Star2Billing Team

Newfies-Dialer Presentation on Today’s Freeswitch Weekly Conference Call

December 14th, 2011

Star2Billing’s Technical Director and Author of Newfies-Dialer, Areski, is to present a technical overview of our latest open source project at the weekly Freeswitch Users Conference, today, Wednesday 14th December at 17:00 UTC.

Newfies-Dialer, is voice broadcasting and auto-dialling solution to allow you to call thousands of contacts delivering emergency and marketing messages. It can also be used to provide custom IVR which can be used for surveys, polls and voting applications.

Areski will discuss the operation of the system as well as the technical aspects of its development that allow Newfies-Dialer to scale, making incredible numbers of calls. He will be available for questions and answers during the conference.

To participate, please call the conference at 1700 UTC (1200 CDT / 1PM EDT) by calling sip:[email protected] or via the PSTN at +1-919-386-9900. More details and the recording can be found at http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Weekly_Conference_Call

Newfies-Dialer – Open Source Voice Broadcasting

November 21st, 2011

Newfies-Dialer, (http://www.newfies-dialer.org) the Open Source voice broadcasting application for Freeswitch to enable the automated delivery of interactive voice calls to contacts, clients and the general public was released as stable today.

Voice Broadcasting is a powerful business tool to automate phone calls for mass marketing, appointment reminders, delivery confirmations, debt collection, phone voting and surveys, automated teleconferencing and to relay vital information to your contacts over the phone.

Newfies-Dialer is a capable auto-dialer software application, and coupled with Freeswitch, provides a scalable auto-dialer system which can auto-dial thousands or even millions of phones per day for a range of businesses and telecoms service providers who wish to provide automated outbound calling as a service to their customers.

Newfies-Dialer can outbound calls over multiple Freeswitch instances offering almost limitless capacity, supporting multiple users, each with their own configurable settings. There are a range of API’s to offer full control to system integrators for external third party applications.

The Newfies-Dialer Voice Broadcasting Platform is assembled entirely from free and Open Source components including Freeswitch, Plivo, RabbitMQ/Redis, Celery and Django.

For more details on Newfies-Dialer including comprehensive installation guides, an automated install script, user manuals and developer’s documentation view http://www.newfies-dialer.org or contact us.

Newfies-Dialer Dashboard

Newfies-Dialer RC3 Released.

November 16th, 2011

Star2Billing has been working on a new open source product called Newfies-Dialer, which is a voice broadcasting, telemarketing and auto-dialer application.

We are pleased to announce that we have released Newfies-Dialer RC3 today.

For more information, please see http://www.newfies-dialer.org/newfies-dialer-v1-0-rc3-released/

Newfies-Dialer 0.1 Released.

July 21st, 2011

Star2Billing (http://www.star2billing.com) is proud to announce the release of their latest product, Newfies-Dialer (http://www.newfies-dialer.org), a free and open source voice broadcast application for Freeswitch to enable the automated delivery of interactive phone calls to contacts, clients and the general public.

Voice Broadcasting is a powerful business tool to automate phone calls for appointment reminders, delivery confirmations, event promotion, debt control, IVR campaigns, phone voting and surveys, automated teleconferencing and to relay vital information to your contacts over the phone.

Although Newfies-Dialer can be installed in house on a single server, it has messaging support allowing distributed call processing across multiple cloud servers to make millions of outbound calls per day.

The comprehensive web interface allows every aspect of the campaign to be controlled with management and customer reports on aspects of the campaign.

Newfies-Dialer is a multi-user system so that multiple campaigns can be run simultaneously for numerous customers who can each manage their campaigns individually, thus making it suitable for service providers wishing to provide voice broadcast services.

The Newfies-Dialer Voice Broadcasting Platform is assembled entirely from free and open source components including Freeswitch, Django, Plivo, Celery and RabbitMQ.

For more details on Newfies-Dialer including comprehensive installation guides, an automated install script, user manuals and developer’s documentation view http://www.newfies-dialer.org

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