WANTED: Multi-core for video communication clients

Danny Loeb provided his insights on the effect of multicore on SIP servers, but what about video communication clients? Up until today, there is a tendency to either push multi-core hardware as the next best thing (mainly by the relevant chipset vendors) or to dismiss it for most uses. While that has been true up until today, it’s popularity is changing - the latest evidence being Skype version 4.0 beta release, which is video-centric. There is a multitude of other (read more...)

By Tsahi Levent-Levi  |  July 3rd, 2008  |  Filed under Clients
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The missing link in VoIP clients for Linux mobile platforms

VoIP clients on mobile handsets are just starting to happen. At the same time, Linux is becoming an interesting mobile platform. The problem is, Linux is quite fragmented: Android, LiMo, Qtopia are just a few of the many flavors of the popular freely available open source OS. This is not just a fragmentation of distributions, which is the case today for the desktop and enterprise Linux markets, but rather a fragmentation of user interface (UI) frameworks. The mobile UI (read more...)

By Tsahi Levent-Levi  |  April 28th, 2008  |  Filed under Clients
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