Today we are pleased to announce the winners in our “PIKA WARP Coolest App contest”. While our winners have both asked that we keep their entries anonymous, we can share with you a few details about their applications developed on the PIKA WARP Appliance.
The winner in the best phone system category uses the PIKA WARP Appliance as a small office, hotel/motel PBX that allows end-users to have access to voicemail and find-me / follow-me features which allows them to send voicemail to their mobile phone.
Our winner in the best non-phone system category uses the PIKA WARP Appliance to integrate a custom scripting language for IVR applications for use within a variety of small business markets with VoIP needs such as restaurants, golf courses, medical offices, dentists, libraries and video stores.
Congratulations to our two winners (your iPads are on the way!) and thank you to everyone for their submissions!
This is your last chance to enter our “PIKA WARP Coolest App” contest – the deadline is Friday July 9th!
We want you to send us your coolest concepts and ideas whether they are in the planning stage or have gone to market. We will choose two winning entries – one for the best phone system and one for the best non-phone system.
Telephony developers continue to submit some very inspired applications to us for our “PIKA WARP Coolest App” contest.
With more than a few golfers here at PIKA, we were excited to receive an application for a phone booking system built on the PIKA WARP Appliance for Asterisk. The application targets small- to medium-sized golf courses that are looking for a feature-rich, low-cost system that integrates both phone and web booking capabilities. The developer wrote the application in a custom programming language that integrates into Asterisk as an Asterisk Gateway Interface and has ported the entire development stack for the language to the WARP Appliance.
The submissions to the contest continue to roll in so stay tuned for more great applications developed on the PIKA WARP Appliance!
We’ve had some great responses to our recently announced “PIKA WARP Coolest App” contest – we have some very creative telephony developers in our midst.
One of our first entries is from a leading provider of innovative business communications products and services located in California. As a low-cost PC alternative, the PIKA WARP Appliance for Linux has allowed our partner to use the WARP as a PBX for small offices and motels looking to provide voice mail, find me/follow me and voicemail-to-mobile phone functionality.
We continue to receive some great entries so stay tuned to hear about more great applications developed on the WARP.
Maarten Kronenburg of PIKA Technologies gave a workshop at AstriEurop in Paris this week titled, “GSM Voice and SMS Applications for the SMB Segment Using Asterisk”. The slides from the workshop are now available for download on our Tradeshow page.
There has been a new release of the PIKA Application Development Suite, PADS, to version 2.1.0.403. This is a major update to PADS that all users of FreePBX on the WARP should upgrade to. Read more about this PADS release in the post on it.
Editor Note: This post was updated on March 12, 2010 at 16:50AM EST to include a patch that prevents multiple runs of the autorun script which could lead to bad burns and to allow people who have flashed default PADS images (or production WARPs) to the latest FreePBX images.
The 2.1 maintenance release of software for the WARP appliance is now available. You can retrieve it from the PIKA website from the WARP downloads page.
This release is a must for all WARP users for many reasons. The most important reason is discussed in this technical bulletin but there are also a ton of fixes in this release. Read the Release Notes for more details. This release requires a special upgrade procedure so make sure you read the section on that in the Release Notes.
Friday July 9th!