Earlier this year, at the Random Hacks of Kindness hackathon in Philadelphia, one team of hacker-activists (Katey Metzroth, Danny Chang and Tim Wisniewski) decided to address the challenge of helping low income Philadelphians find fresh produce in their communities. The app they developed – PhillySNAP – makes use of the SMSified API to let people find SNAP retailers in their neighborhoods. This innovative app was honored yesterday by FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski as a winner in the Apps for Communities Challenge A video overview of the PhillySNAP service can be seen below. (Read More)
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SMSified Powers Apps for Communities Winner
Posted to Voxeo LabsFebruary 3rd, 2012 by Jose de Castro
VoxeoLabs Releases PhonoSDK Version 0.3
Posted to Voxeo LabsFebruary 3rd, 2012 by Jose de Castro
PhonoSDK version 0.1 was released in October 2010 at the jQuery Conference in Boston. In March of 2011, PhonoSDK version 0.2 was released with support for better echo suppression so that headphones were no longer necessary. In July 2011 we released Phono Mobile allowing web developers to build and deploy native iOS and Android apps based on PhonoSDK. Today Voxeo Labs is releasing PhonoSDK version 0.3! This is a major step forward in our commitment this opensource JavaScript Phone API project... (Read More)
PhonoSDK Java Applet
Posted to Voxeo LabsFebruary 3rd, 2012 by Jose de Castro
Phono Version 0.3 now supports Java Applets in addition to Flash! Our Java Applet has even lower latency on VoIP calls which is perfect for enterprise call centers or controlled environments that want HD audio / Wideband call performance with very low latency measured in milliseconds. Note: For most consumer-facing sites, we still recommend using Flash due to its more pervasive deployment base. If you would prefer to use our Java Applet on the desktop, we have provided a new audio property on Phono and a Java Applet.. (Read More)
Phono Mobile How-To Demo
Posted to Voxeo LabsFebruary 3rd, 2012 by Jose de Castro
Tim Panton, one of the Senior Developers on our Phono project at Voxeo Labs, has prepared a how-to video to demonstrate building a mobile voice conferencing application on iOS. In this video, Tim uses PhonoSDK 0.3, PhonoGap 1.1, and XCode. If you are not familiar with our Phono Mobile SDK, it is an extension of Phono that lets you run your existing browser-based PhonoSDK applications on iOS and Android devices as native applications using the PhoneGap mobile platform. In addition to running.. (Read More)
Meet Phono – Tropo’s Web Phone
Posted to Voxeo LabsFebruary 3rd, 2012 by Jose de Castro
Have you heard about Phono, our open source Javascript Phone API project? Phono is a free HTML5 jQuery-based web phone that you can add to any web page to place or receive open SIP-based VoIP calls to/from any web browser (or iOS/Android mobile device using Phono Mobile)! Phono can be connected to Tropo to place or receive phone calls to/from real telephone numbers! Phono can also interact with Tropo voice applications directly from a web page using Tropo’s speech recognition and text-to-speech in.. (Read More)
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