GAITHERSBURG, MD, June 30, 2009 – BroadSoft, Inc., the leading worldwide provider of VoIP applications, today announced the addition of Polycom as a co-sponsor of the XContestv2 (XCv2) Developer Challenge and to the prestigious panel of judges. Polycom’s participation increases the available pool of prize money to $43,000. XCv2 is bringing together developers from around the world to create new, compelling business and consumer communications applications that combine BroadSoft’s Xtended Web Services with other open application programming interfaces (APIs).

The Polycom Bonus Challenge is aimed to encourage XCv2 developers to extend their application user experiences into the domain of video-enabled desktop devices. Polycom’s VVX 1500 business media phone, which combines a personal video conferencing system and full featured support for the BroadWorks® VoIP application platform, offers an open API (more…)

If you’re a frequent visitor to the VoIP Insider you’ll notice that over the last two weeks we’ve made a number of upgrades to the site.

In order to make sure you’re aware of them and how they’ll improve your experience, I thought I’d take a moment to highlight what has been done.

• New site design – Out is the old basic layout. In is a new design that makes finding the latest information easier than ever before.
• Enhanced categories – With over three years worth of juicy content, the old site layout made finding important information within each category rather arduous. The new enhanced category put the most important and relevant content at the forefront, while providing snippets of other relevant content in chronological order.
• Newsletter – Don’t have the time to visit the VoIP Insider every day?
• Share this – As more and more of you are utilizing social mediums to share and discuss information we’ve made pushing our content to the most popular social destinations as easy as clicking a link. Every post is now equipped with the ability for you to push and share via Twitter, Digg, Delicious and StumbleUpon.
• Subscribe to comments – Want to know when someone responds to your comment on a post? With the check of a box you can now receive email updates when someone responds to or adds additional information to the comments of a post you’re subscribed to.

Over the next six to eight weeks expect to see a number of additional feature and functionality improvements come online as the VoIP Insider continues its evolution.

(P.S. If you’ve got any suggestions as to what can be done to make the VoIP Insider better, please contact us and let us know.)

If you are using VoIP in your home of office and have a need for video surveillance, take a look at QNAP. Qnap is known primarily for their network storage appliances, but they also offer one of the best IP Video Surveillance platforms we have come across. (more…)