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
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 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’ve just officially announced our BEE client framework solutions, a broad family of multi-protocol, multi-platform VoIP products. While we have advocated in the past for multi-protocol clients, I think we’ve taken it a step further. Not only do we offer multi-protocol support, we now offer it over multiple platforms in quite a unique manner. Last week, I had 2 meetings back-to-back, in the middle of the night (at least here in Israel, as both were with the west coast) about
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | June 8th, 2010 | Filed under Clients
I’ve returned recently from a business trip in Asia and met a few prospects over there. It seems like a lot of activity is going on in Asia around the Android operating system – the most obvious being 3G phones based on the Android OS. As 3G supports mobile video telephony inherently, service providers make a requirement for handset vendors to add such support to their Android devices as well. From the ongoing work that we’ve been doing for
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | May 27th, 2010 | Filed under Clients
Our stacks and frameworks run over an operating system abstraction layer called “Common Core“. This allows us to be able to port our products in a relatively short timeframe to other operating systems – sometimes really esoteric ones. In some cases, our customers do the porting to their operating systems on their own – especially when they use a proprietary one that is only available to them. I’ve even met a customer or two that have taken some of our
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | March 22nd, 2010 | Filed under Technology
Google now offers two separate operating systems: Android OS – used by smartphones out there, ported by companies onto a bunch of other consumer electronic products including netbooks. Chrome OS – a browser-based operating system, which essentially lives within the browser. Oh, and people are starting to think of placing it on netbooks as well. Why would any sane company go and invest their resources on two operating systems that just… do the same? Which OS would
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | January 28th, 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
[This post is part of our Designing Hardware for HD series. Be sure to check it out!] In my previous post I’ve discussed on the requirements from an OSD engine. These requirements will affect the decision making of chip selection for the OSD. But there is another aspect that affects that decision and it is the software you will use for visualization – the OSD engine. While I do not pretend to be an expert on GUI, I have
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | January 25th, 2010 | Filed under HD VoIP
It’s not every day that an opportunity falls in my laps not only to talk about something dear to me, but also to have a press release accompany it. And when opportunity knocks, who am I to say no. If you haven’t noticed, we’ve published a press release about MediaTek selecting our 3G-324M stack for their system-on-chip solutions for handset vendors. I thought I would share with you a short story of what went on behind the scenes… A
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | January 20th, 2010 | Filed under Clients
