In Part 1 of this two-part series, we covered why you should consider using the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) for your telephony solution. In this article, we will:

* Sign-up for Amazon Web Services (AWS);
* Setup the Elasticfox Firefox Extension for Amazon EC2;
* Configure an Amazon EC2 instance;
* Assign an Elastic IP address to the instance;
* Install Asterisk 1.6;
* Create Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes for the Asterisk configuration, voicemail and logs storage.

he directory lists the device options available for accessing SIP based VoIP applications and content. Moore's Law like forces arising from the competition between the large number of companies producing SIP phones has produced a dramatic reduction in the cost of the devices. VoIP-Info lists hundreds of companies making softphones a hardphones. A few VoIP focused device distributors have emerged like VoIPSupply, Telephony Depot, and IP Phone Warehouse. ATA's represent the absolute cheapest path to SIP access, but the directory omits the devices as too closely linked to the old telephone model. The emerging competition between cell phone operating systems (iPhone, Android, LiMO, Symbian, Windows Mobile, etc) promises to provide very interesting platforms for SIP enablement. Send suggestions for corrections and additional listings to Daniel Berninger at dan at danielberninger.com.

The HP Web Security Research Group today released HP SWFScan, a free security tool for Windows that helps developers find security vulnerabilities in applications developed with the Adobe Flash Platform. We have found that developers building applications with the Flash Platform often leave security vulnerabilities unintentially in their code. Our group decided to develop SWFScan to help not only our customers but also developers around the world make the web a safer place.