Here’s a thing I realized talking to a friend of mine the other day: Apple isn’t going to focus on visual communications in 2010 – not in their Macs and probably not on their iPads either. My friend, who is aware of our own SCOPIA VC240 product – a 24″ PC monitor with built-in HD video conferencing capabilities, told me that Apple’s 27″ all-in-one Mac monitor should probably add such a capability as well. He didn’t understand why they didn’t
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | March 9th, 2010 | Filed under Technology
It seems like Apple has succeeded where others have failed – it has opened up the market in Korea for foreign handset vendors. And it has done so singlehandedly. Before the iPhone, most of the Korean handset market has been ruled by local vendors. The service providers in Korea had their own set of special specifications, usually written in Korean, making it harder for foreigners to participate in the game. One success story of a foreign company in Korea
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | February 11th, 2010 | Filed under Clients, Technology
Last month I’ve stated that I don’t see visual communications done in software anytime soon. But then the question is when – when WILL visual communications be prominent in software solutions? I’d like to risk it and come up with an answer that is a bit counterintuitive even to me: never. Software is never going to be the path to go with visual communications. And why is that? Because as we get closer to a point in time, when the
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | February 4th, 2010 | Filed under Technology
This is a question that was frequently asked during our sales meeting this month. I’d like to try and answer it here. In the last couple of years, we’ve had tremendous success with Windows Mobile – we’ve done a bunch of successful projects and had a few product launches. A lot of vendors who develop handsets needed our 3G-324M stack or some other product of ours to be integrated into their device, so life was good. Something got broken the
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | January 25th, 2010 | Filed under Clients, Technology
It’s funny how the open source movement eventually got us to the place where we are now: a point in time when closed became the new open. And let me explain. Apple Exhibit A: the iPhone. It’s an “open platform” – it took control over the phone’s features from the operators and gave it to the users. But the Apple folks allow people to download apps only from their AppStore. Nowhere else. And they are banning some of the applications.
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | January 4th, 2010 | Filed under Technology
The iPhone has been around for a while now. And while it has been a game changer to the mobile handset industry, it was also a game changer of almost EVERY other industry in town. I came to this conclusion reading Om Malik’s post about the wireless bandwidth boom, which has (of course) been driven by the iPhone: But the popularity of new 3G devices such as the iPhone and BlackBerry 3G has increased the use of data, putting the
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | October 29th, 2009 | Filed under Technology
Andy Abramson has written a bunch of great posts lately – each one a gem on its own. While I’d recommend most of his posts, I wanted to direct you to his new initiative, the VoipWatch Report podcast. Michael Graves explains why G.722, an inferior wideband codec, is winning the HD Voice “codec war” – a classic case where business decisions win over technology. Alec Saunders takes a jab at the current ecosystem of Skype for developers – an interesting read. Michael Mace is asking if Apple is too powerful – yes it is. David Byrd from SIP and Serve by a Foodie explains about HD Voice – great for beginners who want to know the HD Voice basics.
By Tsahi Levent-Levi | September 24th, 2009 | Filed under Around the net
