Posts filed under 'Technology'
FaceTime is a new service offered by Apple on their iPhone 4. It provides mobile video calling, mainly for consumers. From the moment it launched, we have seen a rise in requests coming from vendors to build similar solutions with their devices, which means that a hectic year is ahead of us. If FaceTime (or mobile video calling) interests you, then you might want to consider spending a bit of time on reading the list of resources I’ve collected from
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | September 2nd, 2010 | Filed under Technology
FaceTime is a really interesting move coming from Apple on their recently launched iPhone4. It is a mobile video telephony service which runs over IP, which by now probably have had more video calls done than mobile video calls done on all other existing handsets in the world in the same period of time. Instead of spending my time thinking of what else to write about this new service, here are a few interesting posts that I have found in
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | August 16th, 2010 | Filed under Clients, Technology
Apple’s FaceTime is now a fact. And by the success Apple had with the iPod and in recent years the iPhone, it is bound to change the market – maybe not the end users one, but definitely the handset vendors, who by now are looking for their own solutions to this problem. I’ve seen a bunch of webinars, whitepapers and other articles about how FaceTime-like services can be integrated by other handset vendors. Usually, these resources focus on a single
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | August 9th, 2010 | Filed under Technology
There’s a lot to criticize about the new video calling service from Apple, FaceTime – that it isn’t interoperable at the moment, that it works only over WiFi, that you must have an iPhone 4 to be able to use the service, and so on. But there is something that FaceTime does for Apple that all the rest of its innovations in the latest release don’t: it separates it from the pack of Android devices. Think back on Apple’s previous
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | July 19th, 2010 | Filed under Technology
Steve Cheney started guest posting on TechCrunch. In one of his posts, he states that Apple’s strategy of vertical integration is ingenious: Perhaps the best example of this so far is FaceTime, Apple’s take on video-calling. FaceTime makes video-calling on the Android-based Sprint HTC EVO look silly, because the EVO awkwardly requires users to sign up and download a third-party app, then launch it every time they want to talk. Normal people simply won’t do this. Apple eliminated this friction
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | July 12th, 2010 | Filed under Technology
I’ve been an avid promoter of the Android OS up to the point of being ridiculed within the company – whenever someone has something good (or bad) to say about Android, they make sure I know about it. I don’t really mind. I think that Android has a place in the world, especially in 2010 and in the coming years – until something better pops up. For now, it is the best game in town if you are a handset
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | July 8th, 2010 | Filed under Technology
Last week, we hosted another webinar with TMCnet. This time about SIP servers on embedded systems: Powering SoHo communications. It seems that everything is moving to the clouds lately, and part of this migration is also happening in the PBX realm. That said, there is a wide range of servers that need to go into the small enterprise premises, as well as PBX implementations that doesn’t rely on the cloud. One of the poll questions that were addressed to the
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | July 7th, 2010 | Filed under Technology
Ever asked yourself when will video calling or even voice calling become something prevalent over the internet? I am afraid that the answer is “not so soon”. For this to happen, there are two distinct technologies that come to play: HTML5 (which is still in its early days) and Flash (which is installed on most web browsers worldwide). HTML5 It seems like the two missing pieces to get video calling going in a browser is having the ability to receive
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | July 5th, 2010 | Filed under Technology
Last week I attended a technology event dedicated to embedded solutions. In one of the sessions, a company focused on operating system abstraction layers (OSAL) presented their take on porting. To make a long story short, the hour was devoted to showing how porting becomes a breeze for customers using their product to the extreme – you just “use the product” and voila – no need to think about porting ever again. As someone who’s done his share of porting
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | June 28th, 2010 | Filed under Technology
We just hosted a webinar on TMCnet regarding Unified Communication HD Visual Communications for the Masses. A long title for a pretty simple concept: we have video communications today available. How can they be used? And what are the challenges of developing such solutions? These are the kind of issues we see vendors today dealing with. It is also why we started the designing hardware for HD post series. For me, the interesting part in this webinar was the question that was asked to the audience: do you participate in video calls? While almost a third of the participants are not using video communications, the rest do. Almost a third of our audience is active creators of such video communication sessions, while others are more passive. It would be interesting to see how this will change with the introduction of video calling solutions in the consumer market. You can view this visual communications webinar online if you want. I have also embedded here the slides for your enjoyment:
By Tsahi Levent-Levi | June 21st, 2010 | Filed under Technology
