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
This is one of several posts about Apple’s iPhone FaceTime service. The reason for writing about it is because it is such an interesting issue: Apple, the king of usability, is trying to solve the user experience of mobile video telephony. What I want to deal with here is a slew of open questions about the openness of FaceTime. And to start, you should read this post by Ajit Jaokar about possible meanings of open. Which ones can be covered
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | June 24th, 2010 | Filed under Standardization
The new iPhone 4 was just announced. It’s not 4G or HD – just 4. I have to give it to Steve this time – not calling it 4G means he isn’t jumping the LTE wagon just yet. And not calling it HD means he really knows what HD is, and while the display of the new iPhone is impressive, HD it ain’t. The worst part of it all? It has a front facing camera. And as someone who predicted
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | June 9th, 2010 | Filed under Clients
[Once in a while there comes a time to write a post unrelated to VoIP. Or anything else in this blog for that matter. The sole purpose of the post is to attract readers that might find it amusing enough to stay around a bit - or god forbid subscribe to the blog in question. Guess what? You are now reading such a post.] - What if Microsoft was the company behind the service we all call Twitter? Every tweet
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | October 26th, 2009 | Filed under Miscellaneous, Technology
A lot have been written this last weekend about Joltid suing eBay. Or simply – Skype’s founders suing their own creation. Tom Keating provided some interesting information about the lock-in that Joltid has on Skype: Brad from the ‘Twilight in the Valley of the Nerds’ blog emailed me to say he read my Joltid article, including the comments from Julian Cain, a former Kazaa employee, where Julian commented that Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Fris [Skype founders ~ T.L.L] can remotely
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | September 24th, 2009 | Filed under Standardization
VoIP Security has long been viewed as another one of those features that no one really needs, but must be in the feature list to win bids. It is also something that companies who have it tout as mandatory and scare the hell out of prospective customers. I hate both ends of this equation, but I do feel that there is something to consider here. R Reddy over at the GIPS blog believes that security threats are real in
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | August 20th, 2009 | Filed under Standardization, Technology
In the last couple of months, some of you may have noticed that it seemed like nothing got written in this blog. That wasn’t the case, of course – a technical “glitch”, which happened when we moved from the Feedburner platform to Google’s, caused our RSS feeds to malfunction for some of you. I won’t burden you with the gory details, but I’ll tell you this: it’s over, and we’re back. For those of you who might have missed some
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | March 24th, 2009 | Filed under Miscellaneous
FierceVoIP provides the highlights of an Infonetics report about VoIP and IMS. Finally, IMS is starting to gain a bit of momentum. Their observation, that IMS is making headway in fixed-line while mobile will come later, is similar to my own feeling these days from customer visits. Last week GrandCentral was rebirthed as Google Voice. It was blogged all over the blogosphere. What caught my eye is Dean’s thoughts on the subject over at VoIP User.
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | March 19th, 2009 | Filed under Around the net
You’d think that with all the open source movement out there, people who “take the plunge” into open source won’t be going back to proprietary solutions now that they have “seen the light”. Well, that’s not always the case. Tom Keating has an interesting post about SHSU switching back from Asterisk to Cisco: Well, 3 years have passed, and according to this thread written by Jason Fuermann, who is responsible for SHSU’s IP phone system, SHSU has switched back to
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | March 5th, 2009 | Filed under Technology
The current economy situation has raised the issue of expenses reduction for enterprises, both small and large. On the IT side this sometimes boils down to opting for open source solutions. While I can’t refute the business case behind this, it does seem that “open source” as a term is either being over-used or simply abused. I am not one to fuss over semantics (I didn’t even mention Rich writing about it in relations to VoIP and Internet Telephony), but
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | February 23rd, 2009 | Filed under Standardization
