When Marketing & Tech Collide
Is the third iPad a ’4G’ device? Depends on who you ask, apple themselves states 4G, and than changed to cellular instead. clearly stating LTE, but avoiding the ’4G’ term to avoid expectations for surfing speed, probably. If you would ask the CEO of 4G Americas – ’4G’ is actually anything ‘above’ HSPA+ at 21mbps – which actually covers a handful of devices, AND networks. What’s your definition of ’4G’?

3G4G Blog On The Future Of WiFi

Huawei To Threaten Cisco?
GigaOM thinks so. Read more at  http://gigaom.com/cloud/watch-out-cisco-huaweis-coming

May 15th 2012, 11:00AM EDT

These recent years have seen the  explosion of creation and consumption of multimedia content in a variety of areas from entertainment to video telecommunications.
The aim of this webinar is  to discuss the current state of the art in metadata generation for automatically indexed content and for videoconference/telepresence, present the IMTC point of view on these technologies and to point out some current standardization efforts in this areas.

The Webinar will be  presented by:

• Andrea Basso, AT&T  (Moderator)
• Jean-Pierre Evain , European Broadcasting Union (EBU)
• Alberto Messina, RAI
• Dave Gibbon, AT&T

Click Here to REGISTER.

In the last article about mobile video, I reviewed RADVISION Mobile Scopia V3 and talked about the ‘true meaning’ of Telepresence – the ability to talk freely with people over video, anywhere.
The last year has been very supportive of this definition, and with only a few players fighting over the high-end video conferencing market – low cost,  software, and cloud based solutions are booming.
At the same time, the following trends makes the ‘average Joe’ a potential video-conferencing client:

• New technologies such as H264 SVC enable video-conferencing over average internet connections – both wired and wireless.
• Tablets became a norm  - Last month, after the 3rd iPad release, Apple’s tablets web-traffic finally suppressed that of the iPhones.

The video-conferencing market is clearly changing. I believe that at the center of this change are both companies like Google, Apple and Facebook that see videos as a must-have feature in their social ecosystem, and companies that make low-cost video-conferencing possible, like Vidyo.

Vidyo is a name mentioned often these days – both as a disruptive force in the video conferencing space, and as the technology behind Google video chat and ‘Hangout’ products. In order to witness what all the fuss is about, I chose to test the platform and just record a video of the product itself – the result is a rather long talk about Vidyo in general, and what makes mobile video-conferencing a reality today (be sure to watch in 720P, it’s worth it):

So what do we have here?

LTE iPads, SVC based video without MCUs and zero apparent lag, high-definition mobile conferencing and low cost devices. Maybe this time video Will kill the ‘phone star’ (audio calls)?

Microsoft Agrees To Sell AOL Patents To Facebook For $500M
Microsoft will sell the majority of patents acquired from AOL, supposedly to defend from Yahoo’s lawsuit against Facebook. Read More at: http://www.totaltele.com/view.aspx?ID=472967

Sprint Optimizes Video Data Usage For Next Gen LTE Network
Sprint invest in mobile video optimization to support it’s unlimited data plan and higher bandwidth consumption.
Using caching, optimization for encoding/decoding and wi-fi offload – the company will aim to supply a smooth video experience for mobile viewers, both on LTE and current 3G networks. Read More at: http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=220086

Among Viddy Investors – High Profile Star
The video sharing application for mobile devices, often cited as ‘Instagram for Video’ is backed by many celebrity investors – among them a company co-founded by Will Smith, Roc Nation of Jay-Z and Shakira. The application has over 10 million users, with 300,000 new users every each day.

Read More at: http://paidcontent.org/2012/04/23/video-sharing-app-viddy-now-backed-by-jay-z-biz-stone

‘iPad 3′ To Be Launched In 21 New Countries
The new iPad device will be launched in 21 countries until the end of April, among them are South Korea, Brunei, Croatia, Cyprus, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Malaysia, Panama, St. Maarten, Uruguay, Venezuela, Colombia, Estonia, India, Israel, Latvia, Lithuania, Montenegro, South Africa, and Thailand. Read more at http://www.intomobile.com/2012/04/16/ipad-roll-out-21-new-countries-end-april/

FuzeBox Updated To Support iPad3 Resolution
Ryan Lawler reviews the updated FuzeBox application for the iPad3, supporting Full-HD recording and decoding.
Read more at:  http://gigaom.com/collaboration/fuzebox-ipad-retina-display/

TelepresenceTech Appoints David Allen As BOD Chairman
Mr.Allen is widely known as a key figure in Telepresence industry after co-founding the first Telepresence company in 1993, together with Herold Williams. Read More at: http://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/664934

NTT’s Telepresence Has Some Tricks Of Its Own
The Malaysian Insider wrote an article about NTT Telepresence, and while systems that ‘brings people closers’ are the bread and butter of this blog (and IMTC in general) – The system itself seems rather unique. Instead of plasma screens, the images are projected into a see-through screens and those rotate dynamically to show who is the person the speaker is addressing to. Read More at TheMalaysianInsider.com

What And Who Is Trying To Hack Into Our Networks?
Martin Sauter, from the WirelessMoves blog, tried to see how much should we worry about hacking attempts.
He routed incoming traffic directed to his NAT setup into his Linux PC and tried to find out which type of connections he receives that aren’t initiated by his own efforts. The results aren’t surprising, but very worrying - If you are connected to the internet, someone will try to find an open security hole. Among the incoming connection attempts – scans for RDP ports, VNC, SIP requests and DNS. To read the full list – Click Here.

IMTC 2nd 2025 Event Is Getting Closer – Last Chance To Be A Speaker!
The 2nd bi-annual IMTC 2025 Event will be held on June 26-27, 2012. If you wish to participate as speaker, see the following page, and contact kfir@Pravdam.com - harry up, as speaker-lists will be finalized this week.

Cisco Jabber to Compete With Skype?
Cisco announced the availability of it’s Jabber client on iPad and Windows platforms – making Jabber a universal client, supporting Webex, Telepresence connectivity and a handful of platforms to run on. ‘The VAR Guy’ claims Jabber is slowly becoming a potential Skype/Lync competitor. Read more at thevarguy.com

Nokia/RIM and Apple in Dispute Over Next Generation SIM
Nokia , backed by Motorola Mobility (now Google) is in dispute with Apple over the new Nano-SIM specifications. Nokia’s offer is smaller, and in better compliance with ETSi specifications, according to claims made by Nokia representative. Read more at 3G4G Blog and BBC news.

Will NAT Come to IPV6?
Why is NAT needed in a an IPV6 world, when the amount of IP address isn’t limited in practical terms?
Read about the pros and cons at Phoneboy Blog.

How will technology impact your life and work in 2025?

This is the question we will discuss at our bi-annual 2025 Virtual Conference event, taking place June 26-27, 2012, in a browser near you.

Video communication has reached a point of maturation where regular TV sets now sport a Skype client, and smartphones capable of HD video have become today’s most successful technological products. Video is also a part of a much wider phenomenon – the way we communicate and interact is changing forever. Motion and gesture control, TV content personalization, 3D telepresence – where does it all lead? What will our offices and living rooms look like when we look further ahead into the future?

At IMTC, we will bring together thought leaders in these fields to answer these very questions. We also practice what we preach – the event will be a virtual conference utilizing existing video communication products.


Among IMTC 2025 Speakers are:

• Samsung India CTO – Dr AlokNath De
• LifeSize Communications CTO – Casey King
• Plantronics SVP Engineering and CTO – Joe Burton
• Comcast VP Video Management – Elad Nafshi
• Huawei IMS/NGN CMO – Manuel Vexler
• Cisco Healthcare Vertical Manager – Nupur Srivastava
• Primesense VP Biz-dev & Marketing – Adi Berenson

Among the topic discussed this year are:

• Future of the Living-room
• ‘Healthy Future’ – Innovation in Telemedicine
• Future of Smart Agents
• Future of Cars
• Future of Education
• Future of Telepresence & Videoconferencing
• Future of Ecosystems

Register now to get preliminary event news and reminders:

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How will technology impact your life and work in 2025?

This is the question we will discuss at our bi-annual 2025 Virtual Conference event,
taking place June 26-27, 2012, in a browser near you.

Video communication has reached a point of maturation where regular TV sets now sport a Skype client, and smartphones capable of HD video have become today’s most successful technological products. Video is also a part of a much wider phenomenon – the way we communicate and interact is changing forever. Motion and gesture control, TV content personalization, 3D telepresence – where does it all lead? What will our offices and living rooms look like when we look further ahead into the future?

At IMTC, we will bring together thought leaders in these fields to answer these very questions. We also practice what we preach – the event will be a virtual conference utilizing existing video communication products.

• Are you a thought leader in visual communication, the future of the living room, telemedicine, or any other technology changing our lives now and in foreseeable future?
• Are you not afraid to look into your crystal ball and tell everybody what you see? Come and speak at our event – without leaving your office, via video conferencing, chat and remote presentations.

As a speaker, we request that you send us your proposal, and write a short blog post about your topic that we will publish in relevant blogs.

Interested? Email us at kfir@pravdam.com with 2025 in the subject line.

Please send us your proposals by April 15, 2012.

Vidyo Demonstrates 3MP Data Collaboration Via The New iPad3
Vidyo recently demonstrated high quality video conferencing via its mobile client, sharing content at higher than 1080P resolution with the iPad3.
While video mobile client still doesn’t support the full capabilities of the iPad3 (HD video encoding is still absent, if it’s actually feasible using the iPad3 hardware) – the high resolution screen of the iPad3 currently enables viewing presentations at HD resolution and that’s impressive by itself. Read more at: DigitalCameraTimes.

We will soon release a video call we had with representatives from the Vidyo marketing team, focusing on their mobile client and unique technology. Stay tuned.

How Soon Will Your Mobile Video-Chat Be Fantastic?
ITworld talks about the state of mobile video chat for consumers and talks about Vivox and lack of interoperabillity in the consumer space.
Read the article at: ITworld.com

Is Apple Working on VoLTE Support?
Job listing by Apple reveal the demand for an engineer with SIP, RTP, VoIP protocols and IMS - Lightreading.com suggest this hints toward future VoLTE support by Apple. Read more at LightReading.com

67 Million 4G LTE Smartphones Are Expected To Be Sold In 2012
In 2011, 6.8 million LTE devices were sold worldwide, and current estimation for 2012 is 10 times bigger than that. Read more at IntoMobile.com