Category Archives: Technology insight

Industry News Summary – Global Crossing, Skype, HTML 5 and more

How Skype plans to expand its business Gigaom wrote an article about how Skype plans to grow its business beside offering premium features, such as group chat; Skype success with its recent IPO is highly debated as currently the majority of Skype revenue is generated by the Skype-Out feature (86% of Skype net revenue). While the “freemium” [...]
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Industry News Summary – LTE 4G, Telepresence, Unified Communications and more

LightSquared LTE to cover all of the USA by 2015. Harbinger Capital Partner announced it’s plan to build a 7 billion USD, open, wholesale 4G wireless network that will cover most of the USA. Sue Marek from Fierce Wireless wrote an article about the plan, and remained rather skeptical – Will a private a private-equity [...]
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Is there a place for Rich Communication Suite in the mobile future?

We have asked Jose M.Recio from Solaiemes to talk about RCS and to shed some more light about his IMTC 2025 presentation (Jose participated in the Triple Play Session and presented RCS examples). Solaiemes creates communication solutions built upon the RCS features of the IMS standards. RCS (Rich Communcation Suite) is an industy effort driven [...]
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The Technology Behind iPhone 4 FaceTime Protocol – Standards & Apple

Apple announcement of FaceTime, their new video telephony solution, included various standards: H.264, AAC, SIP, STUN, TURN, ICE, RTP, and SRTP. If this is the case, it would offer great start for interoperability, as the very same standards are widely used by the modern video communications solutions by majority of the vendors. Here’s a short explanation on the role of [...]
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Thank You Mr. Jobs

Yesterday, Steve Jobs, Apple‘s CEO, Introduced FaceTime , a video telephony solution for iPhone 4. It is based on  open standards and integrated in next generation iPhone as a simple to use video telephony product. Apple is known for its ability to revolutionize industries. iTunes, iPod, iPhone and iPad – all changed their respective markets. [...]
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