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The world's most popular open source communications engine, Asterisk is a free software toolkit designed to allow integrators and developers to transform computers into advanced communications systems. In doing so, they can radically improve business productivity while also reducing business communications costs.

Polaris Wireless, a provider of software-based location systems, has announced that it has integrated WiFi capabilities into its Polaris Wireless Location Signatures technology, enhancing its Hybrid solution.

IP5280 Communications has reportedly acquired the customer base of CEWest Consulting Inc., a six-year-old, Denver-based IP communications service provider specializing in the delivery of high-speed broadband and hosted IP solutions to the healthcare market.

The keynote speakers kicking off ITEXPO East in Miami this week features an all-star lineup of IT decision makers and thought leaders from Yahoo, Polycom and Free Conferencing Corp.

DSS, Inc., a company specializing in healthcare IT solutions, reportedly announced the availability of vxVistA, the free and open-source version of company's VistA electronic health records.

CounterPath Corporation, a provider of desktop and mobile Voice over IP software products and solutions, and Digium, the Asterisk Company, has reportedly announced a co-branded VoIP softphone platform: Bria for Asterisk. This new solution is designed for small, medium and large enterprises, while it is also certified by CounterPath. Bria for Asterisk takes the advanced telephony and multimedia communications features found on Asterisk servers and brings them to the desktop level to improve employee productivity and collaboration.

Sony Pictures Imageworks, the visual effects and digital character animation unit of Sony Pictures Digital Productions, has reported said that its Open Shading Language source code's alpha version is now available for the development community. According to the company, Open Shading Language is a small, but rich language for programmable shading in advanced renderers and other applications. OSL is similar to C, as well as other shading languages; however, it is specifically designed for advanced rendering algorithms with features such as radiance closures, BRDFs, and deferred ray tracing as first-class concepts.

Razuna Ltd., a company that supports and builds open source systems, has reportedly announced the general availability of Razuna 1.3.5, a major upgrade to its advanced open-source Digital Asset Management System.