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
If I had only known how much noise my Google Jingle/SIP post would make, I would have written it sooner. But then again, you can never really know which posts will get people talking. I had multiple discussions about this subject the day the post was published – on my blog as well as on Twitter. It seems to me that there is something that I missed and I feel it’s necessary to say here: Server-side interworking SUCKS. Interworking? Interworking
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | December 7th, 2009 | Filed under Standardization, Technology
XMPP lovers out there – it’s time to pack your things and head home. It seems like SIP has won the battle for VoIP dominance. Don’t come complaining to me – Google is to blame. A few weeks ago we were all looking for Skype to step up to the plate, scoop Gizmo5 and save their asses from the patent issues by giving them a SIP infrastructure. Didn’t happen. Instead, we are now dealing with a much bigger issue: Google
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | November 23rd, 2009 | Filed under Standardization
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
