It seems like a fight has started over the communication device on our desktops. Not the fight over voice – that one has already been fought and won time and again by the ubiquitous desktop phone, with some signs of the mobile handset providing any serious competition to its reign. What I am talking about is the fight over visual communications: doing video chat and video conferencing from your desk, wherever that is. Here’s a list of the current contestants:
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | February 8th, 2010 | Filed under Clients, Technology
Google announced a few weeks ago their shiny new Chrome OS. It’s the old-new approach to computing: having a dumb terminal connected to external computing services. The problem is, that it is only half baked, and a few years ahead of its time. Chrome OS in a Nutshell To me, Chrome OS is simply an operating system that has a browser as its user interface. While people in the blogosphere mainly focus on the boot speed of it (7 seconds),
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | December 23rd, 2009 | Filed under Clients, Technology
There are three ways in which a service can be provided on a mobile handset these days: it can be integrated, downloaded or served from “the cloud”. The multi-Million dollar question is – which one is going to rule? A few years back, the only real way for a service to be noticed on a mobile device was by having it as an integrated part of the handset from day one. But these days, especially after the iPhone became the
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | December 14th, 2009 | Filed under Clients, Technology
Recently, someone approached me through the blog’s contact page, requesting my 5 cents on the VoIP market. He was especially interested in Skype and he actually had an interesting question: Who can pose a real threat to Skype? Can it be Gizmo5 or Nimbuzz? Or any other VoIP or Mobile VoIP company? The simplest answer I can give to this question is: no one. Or at least none of those startups. And now that Google has scooped up Gizmo5, one
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | November 19th, 2009 | Filed under Technology
With Apple’s App Store success (over 500 million downloaded apps so far), similar stores are sprouting up all around, with Microsoft, Palm, RIM, Google and others introducing their own version of an application store. Still, the iPhone is making most of the noise and as such, the blogosphere in the past several months was filled with posts about different VoIP clients being ported to the iPhone – jail-broken or not. BUT – do we really want (or need) VoIP clients
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | January 22nd, 2009 | Filed under Clients
