GM Files Blockchain Patent

Last week automaker General Motors filed a patent for a solution to manage data from autonomous vehicles using Blockchain.

How to Enable Bluetooth on a Digium Telephone

Digium D65 and D80 telephone models have Bluetooth (BT) ability used to connect to Bluetooth enabled wireless headsets. The Bluetooth App on the phone allows you to turn on and off the option to use BT/wireless headsets. Once a device is paired, you can enable the ability to answer

Rose colored glasses

I’d like to believe that I see the world differently. As a guy that sees the world through a computer screen most of the day, I’d like to keep doing that… I used to wear glasses. I needed them. Once I got to high school I realized quickly

Where have you been?

I was going to call this post "What I did on my Summer Vacation" but I'd hardly call the last few months a "vacation". After about a nearly two month hiatus of writing it feels good to get behind a keyboard again. We've been really busy on the biggest single

Blockhead

$100 purchased on January 1, 2011 would have bought you 333.33 Bitcoin. At current rates that would be worth $2,189,819.77 USD. So it's no wonder why everyone is so excited about Cryptocurrency. Who wouldn't want to see that kind of a return on an investment? But

Way outside the box

Hustle Con is a conference for non technical startup entrepreneurs. They bring successful founders on stage to explain how they launched and grew their brands. I had the opportunity and pleasure of attending Hustle Con in Oakland, CA last week. And what a wild ride it was. I had been

Fear

/feer/: an unpleasant emotion caused by the belief that someone or something is dangerous, likely to cause pain, or a threat. It's crippling. Debilitating. And even more frustrating when you can't control it. When it manistes itself in another person and you know that there's nothing to be fearful about,

Are you guilty?

Video Transcript: Hola Interwebs! Zach from Chromis.com inside the shark tank aka my home office in Arizona... It’s Wednesday and on Wednesdays we wear pink… Wait… It’s not Wednesday… It’s only Tuesday... And Send... Anyway, I wanted to talk to you about what I just did!

Measuring Broadband Speeds

Sammy Hagar wrote "I can't drive 55!" But if he were Canadian it would be "I can't drive 88.51392, eh!" Not as cool in Kilometers per Hour as it is in Miles per Hour. But at least in Sammy's case he'd be comparing apples to apples. Both "mph" and

Open office? No thanks.

Crowdfunding/sourcing is amazing. I'm a fan of this alternative fundraising because it has launched some really cool products (see Nomiku for an awesome success story). But every now and again something wacky comes across my desk. Open offices are the "Bane" of most user's existence (this will make sense

Don’t text and talk

New technology often dictates the need for new etiquette. Today we have so much new technology it’s hard for etiquette norms to keep up. One pet peeve of mine that I think should be frowned upon is texting, or any other mobile device distraction, while in a live conversation.

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Bots are Big

Bots are computers. In particular, they are tasks or features that a computer can do rather than a person. Messaging bots do things like answer common questions, tell jokes, or look up information such as the weather or account data. Messaging or chatbots can use any number of channels: SMS/

Technology is frustrating

Technology is frustrating, even for technical people. There is always a solution and once you get it right, it can even be delicious. I recently purchased a new security camera system for my home. I unboxed it and it died within two hours of powering it up. It just wouldn't

iOS Wifi Password Sharing

As part of their iOS 11 release earlier this year, Apple release a new feature called Wifi Password sharing that's designed to let you quickly share your Wi-Fi password with a friend. Let's take a deeper look. As I mentioned in the video, I think it's a pretty cool and

Frontnumber Use Case

Text messaging without a mobile phone Frontnumber is a tool that businesses can use to send and recieve text messages. But how? Let's take a look at some of our features a little more in depth. It's amazing to me that we can send messages accross different carriers/networks via

Google reCAPTCHA for a Flask app

It is trival to add Google reCAPTCHA to a Flask app. Google's description of reCAPTCHA is "Protect your website from spam and abuse while letting real people pass through with ease." Credit: based entirely on Vitor Freitas' post Authored date: 2018 March 08 Technologies: Python 2.7.13, Flask 0.

Chromis Receives Digium Award (Again)

I'm running out of room on the shelf in my office. As you can see it's littered with my business book collection and Digium Pinnacle Circle of Excellence awards. And it's just been announced that we've received an award as part of their 2018 list of winners. Time to make

There Is No Magic Pill

"This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill, the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill... You stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes."

Phoenix Startup Week 2018

February 19-23, 2018 Phoenix isn't all cactus and coyotes. According to Gregslist of Arizona Software Companies there are currently 297 AZ based active companies. We're part of the Silicon Desert and we're proud to call Phoenix home. For the past four years some members of our local community have put

Text messaging stats that matter

Why it's time for Business to take messaging seriously There's a couple year old blog post out on the interwebs that continues to intrigue me. Titled: "45 Texting Statistics That Prove Businesses Need to Take SMS Seriously" it's almost information overload. There are general messaging stats and business messaging stats.

Our mission

Frontnumber mission statement: To facilitate high quality communications through simplicity. Our Values: Creativity: We will always ask if there's a better way to solve a problem. Discipline: We will be relentless in our discipline. Doing: We won't rest on our laurels. We turn product ideas into products. Focus: We won't

An origin story.

On September 9, 2007 Jonathan Rusk registered the domain Frontnumber.com. The initial idea was to build an application that would allow a user to anonoymize, mask, forward (and more) to any number on the PSTN. That idea was a little bit ahead of its time. The companies that would

What is Frontnumber?

Frontnumber is: * Text messaging for individuals or teams, no mobile phone required. * Share one or multiple numbers to send and receive text messages. * Each member of your business or organization can participate. Here's why it matters: You’re a business. You have customers. They want to engage with your team.

Steps to updating Digium Switchvox

It’s always a good idea to stay up to date with Switchvox versions. To update: 1. Run a Backup and save to your local hard drive. To create a backup go to: Server > Maintenance > Backups * Click Create Backup. Select the items you would like to backup then click "Save

Upgrade your Switchvox Appliance and Save up to 35%

The Switchvox Summer Appliance Promotion provides you with an additional 30-35% off MSRP on appliances and cold spares. But hurry because this offer ends soon! Who: All Current and New Switchvox systems. What: Receive an additional 35% off the US MSRP for Switchvox 80 appliances and cold spares, and 30%