Google Integrates voice calls into Gmail
Google recently added voice calls as a part of it’s mail system.
For many of us that use Gmail at home – It is like a portal. It’s one of the first pages we see, and something we keep open in our brower for most of the day. This behaviour become more popular after google added the chat feature to Gmail – Now Google adds the option to call PSTN lines from inside Gmail, and that another step in the portal direction. Whole many see this move as a threat to Skype, some think its another weapon in an ongoing war with Facebook.
Financial Times – “Mobile operators predict application sales boom”
Mobile operators are taking a bit hit from the change toward smarth-phones and high speed data connections – they have yet to find a financial model to support this radical and continual change.
Bandwidth intensive site as youtube, create excessive traffic in their networks and yet data access is being sold at a very competitive and cheap prices. So what would be the solution? one way would be charging by application usage, as mobile operators know that in the mobile world applications do sell.
Is 3D the next step for Telepresence? Cisco thinks so.
In an interview with CNET, John Chambers, Cisco CEO stated that his current Telepresence systems that are now in HD quality would eventually be 3D-enabled.
Russian Telecommunication Market Benefits from Technology Leap from 2G to 4G
Russia is expected to be one of the first countries with large LTE deployment, as they infect skipped 3G completely. New government support should boost market significantly in the next few years.
Nokia Siemens Networks’ radio equipment to deliver LTE services in
Sweden’s second largest city – Speeds up to 100mbps/30mbps.
LTE speeds are at max with Nokia Simens latest radio equipment.
Realizing “FaceTime” on Android Devices
Tsahi Levent-Levi (Radvision), Amit Lavi (Radvision) and Carl Ford (4GWE Crossfire Media) will Pass a webinar on mobile video communication in Tuesday September 14, 2010 11:00am ET / 8:00am PT.
Tsahi also wrote a nice summary of Facetime related material in Radvision Blog.
Ofcom, UK FCC equivalent, to release LTE spectrum for broadcast usage in 2012 Olympic Games.
This is infect a part of the bid the Olympic committee demanded, the LTE channles will be used from July 27 to September 9th 2012.
