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=head1 June 2010 Diamondcard Update
Lot's of news to report. We just released our L<Incoming SMS
Service|SmsIncoming>. This will give Diamondcard users the ability
to receive replies from SMS's they send to USA mobile phone users. This
is pretty exciting stuff. Shortly we expect to enable Twinkle and Ekiga
users the ability to receive incoming SMS's to their softphone. This
will allow real time two-way communications in the chat window of Ekiga
and Twinkle. More information on this in our L<Incoming SMS
page|SmsIncoming>.
Recently, I received a call from a friend in California. During our
conversation he mentioned his phone bill last month was over $500. I
asked him how much calling he does. He says he doesn't make many calls.
Hmmm. I asked to see a copy of his phone bill. AT&T was providing
his service and he's using their Centrex system which is the old way of
doing a PBX system. I was surprised to see the large amount of taxes
charged and the high per minute cost of calls to California. They
charge a lot of money for these in state calls. High per minute charges
+ high taxes = bankrupt state? Something is just not right here. But I
digress.
He was asking if I could provide the L<PBX service|HostedPbx>.
Hmmm, did someone mention the word PBX? Like a light bulb about to
blow, It must be time for the L<hosted PBS service!|HostedPbx> At
the minimum, if no one else wants it, we're sure to have one customer.
That's the story on how we finally started working on our L<hosted
PBX Service|HostedPbx>. We expect to release this service sometime
in the next few weeks. We plan to have really good pricing too. It will
be worth the wait. This time around we are doing things differently. We
will be using open source software and donating our code back to the
community.
We have a few call centers in Asia making a lot of calls. They have
been asking for a predictive dialer system to become more efficient.
Predictive what? They want us to predict who to call? Long story made
short, we are going to release a predictive dialer system integrated
with our Diamondcard service. This is going to be a hot item for sure.
There's no surer way to get us working on something than flashing the
local currency in our faces. Well, any currency will do. Preferably not
the USD, but that's another story and for another blog too.
And finally, we are hard at work on our new web site redesign.
Hopefully, if you keep your fingers crossed, add lots of prayers, and
bring the rest of the family into it too, we might be done with it
sometime in our lifetimes. We have tried to do this multiple times
before but never able to get a good design out of our overpriced slave
labor. We have redesigned it twice before now and not release it
because at the end of the day, I just didn't like it. This time, if its
somewhat decent, and none of us are complaining too much, its going up
on the site come hell or high water! I can't look at this current
Diamondcard design any longer. If you can even call it a design at all.
Every page looks like a different site and they all stink. Enough talk
on this or I will need to take my meds.
Till next time.
Stephen Karrington President, Dreamtime.net Inc.