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Credit where credit is due: @voiploser and Michael Graves provided this tip In its latest filing with the ITEF, Skype (www.skype.com) released the source code to SILK under an open license, with the code presented as an appendix to the filing. Codec junkies can review “draft-vos-silk-01” at http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-vos-silk-01, with the fixed-point C code starting at page 28 [...] Global IP Solutions (www.gipscorp.com) has secured Argela Technologies, a subsidary of Turk Telekom, as a customer for VoiceEngine Mobile to insure “excellent” call quality on TT’s WiRO mobile soft client. TT WiRO works like most other soft clients these days, allowing customers to avoid international roaming charges by using WiFi and a broadband connection. Customers can [...] Skype’s (www.skype.com) march to conquer the living room and consumers continues. Samsung and Skype announced that Samsung’s latest and greatest broadband HDTVs will feature embedded Skype software for voice and video calls. The new Samsung LED 7000 and 8000 series models are shipping with Skype software today in Korea and worldwide in the first half of [...] Last week, Toktumi (www.toktumi.com) announced its Line2 iPhone app version 2.0 had received Apple’s blessing. The VoIP app supports placing calls over Wi-Fi, 3G, or cellular voice services. It also uses the Global IP Solutions (www.gipscorp.com) iSAC codec for HD voice calls. Line2 enables international calls to be placed over WiFi starting at around $0.02 per [...] Finally unearthed from a backlog of other tasks, some photos of Skype at CES 2010.
The Skype client on the high-end Panasonic Viera TV. Note the rectangular box at the top of the TV, an add-on specially designed video camera for conducting Skype video calls. Outside the Skype display at the Panasonic booth. Washington Post technology [...] Telecommunications fabless semiconductor company TranSwitch (www.transwitch.com) has licensed AMR-WB from VoiceAge (www.voiceage.com), marking a push to move AMR-WB beyond the cellular world into more wireline gear. TranSwitch makes a range of system on a chip (SoC) solutions combining embedded DSPs and software suites. The company will incorporate AMR-WB into its Entropia infrastructure product line and into [...] IP communications software stack maker D2 Technologies (www.d2tech.com) announced its next generation of mCUE. The new software adds plenty of goodies for Android-based products (i.e. phones), including Skype interoperability, video call/chat, seamless call handover, cross-service conferencing and HD voice. D2 says mCUE has also been optimized to enabled converged IP communications (i.e. deliver voice and video) [...] WYDE Voice is a sponsor of HD Voice News On the eve of Mobile World Congress, HD voice conferencing solution provider WYDE Voice announced that it has expanded its international sales presence. The company has added new offices in North America, Asia and Europe and announced new division leaders. Needless to say, with the boom in mobile [...] Several requests have come in asking about HD voice companies to look for in Barcelona next week during Mobile World Congress (MWC). Here’s a short list– Codecs VoiceAge (www.voiceage.com) – Did you say “AMR-WB”? VoiceAge has formally launched its patent pool for AMR-WB/G.722.2 and made the pricing more end-user friendly from what we can tell. Looks like [...] While it’s not going to win any awards, Aastra (www.aastra.com) has put together a little video demonstrating the difference between G.711 and G.722 on its phones. Available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5G4pbsR3OI, the 53 second long video shows a guy with a too-clean desk picking up a G.711 phone handset, speaking into it – with the audio directly [...] |
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