Dial D For Disruption

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Excerpt: Want to build a phone company for $100? Give Mark Spencer a ring. In a research park outside the low-key bustle of downtown Huntsville, Ala. Mark Spencer finishes his barbecue and resumes wreaking havoc on the multibillion-dollar phone equipment business. Spencer is the inventor of Asterisk, a free software program that establishes phone calls over the Internet and handles voicemail, caller ID, teleconferencing and a host of novel features for the phone. With Asterisk loaded onto a computer, a decent-size company can rip out its traditional phone switch, even some of its newfangled Internet telephone gear, and say good-bye to 80% of its telecom equipment costs. Not good news for Cisco, Nortel or Avaya. Article: forbes (http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2006/0410/063.html), Related: Asterisk (http://www.asterisk.org/)</p>http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/categories/xenophilius.wordpress.com/1979/ http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/tags/xenophilius.wordpress.com/1979/ http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/xenophilius.wordpress.com/1979/ (http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/xenophilius.wordpress.com/1979/) http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/xenophilius.wordpress.com/1979/ (http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/xenophilius.wordpress.com/1979/) http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/xenophilius.wordpress.com/1979/ (http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/xenophilius.wordpress.com/1979/) http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/xenophilius.wordpress.com/1979/ (http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/xenophilius.wordpress.com/1979/) http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/xenophilius.wordpress.com/1979/ (http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/xenophilius.wordpress.com/1979/) http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=xenophilius.wordpress.com&blog=2907288&post=1979&subd=xenophilius&ref=&feed=1


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