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What are the best phone systems for a small office? Shidan Gouran, Founded a CLEC and then a VoIP technology company. Your provider is half the equation, but having a solid, easy to use on-premise system that auto-configures your phones( …

What are the best phone systems for a small office? Shidan Gouran, Founded a CLEC and then a VoIP technology company. Your provider is half the equation, but having a solid, easy to use on-premise system that auto-configures your phones( …

Why do we often use GSM compression standards in VOIP rather than MP3 standards? Shidan Gouran, Founded a CLEC and then a VoIP technology company. Just to add to Tsahi's answer which is totally correct, codecs like MP3, AAC and …

Are there any Android devices that offer hardware encryption for data protection? Shidan Gouran, Founded a company which are core developers of … The only solution that I'm aware of is that of Whisper Systems. It's only available on the …

How many business people actually know all of the following well: Python, SQL, R, Excel, Hadoop? Shidan Gouran I think you have made a mistake and the ad was for a developer of a product/service used by business analysts. It …

What’s the best tool/platform for building a community (members) website that can be monetized (ie. with ads)? Shidan Gouran Drupal and WordPress are the most flexible CMS systems out there and have tons of hooks to change their behavior virtually …

What are some best practices for mobile web development to reduce bandwidth usage? Shidan Gouran All the points in Bruce Alderson's answer to Web Development: What are some best practices for mobile web development to reduce bandwidth usage? are good. …

How likely is it that Amazon will wrest control of Android away from Google, as Microsoft did to IBM with the PC? Shidan Gouran, Founded a company which are core developers of … I would have to disagree with Horace, …

Does anyone use the GSMA OneAPI? Shidan Gouran, Founded a CLEC and then a VoIP technology company. I think Voxeo implements (among many other interfaces) some of the OneAPI interfaces, I don't remember which brand they use but you can …

What device can be used to block cell phone use over an area of about 100 meters? Shidan Gouran, Founded a CLEC and then a VoIP technology company. You can research Phone Jammers. Less than 10 meters is pretty easy …

Why do telecom operators resell to smaller carriers and would rather hurt their margins? Shidan Gouran, Founded a CLEC and then a VoIP technology company. In the late 1970′s and early 1980′s, fiber optics came into play and a significant …