By Doug Mohney, on March 9th, 2010
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 [...]
By Doug Mohney, on February 25th, 2010
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 [...]
By Doug Mohney, on February 24th, 2010
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 [...]
By Doug Mohney, on February 23rd, 2010
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 [...]
By Doug Mohney, on February 15th, 2010
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) [...]
By Doug Mohney, on February 11th, 2010
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 [...]
By Doug Mohney, on February 9th, 2010
On the rollup to Mobile World Congress (MWC) next week in Barcelona, Global IP Solutions (www.gipscorp.com) has announced a video chat/HD voice package for Apple iPhone mobile developers.
Coders can use GIPS VideoEngine Mobile to rapidly integrate real-time video chat or multi-point video conferencing into iPhone applications, resolving IP network issues such as delay, jitter and [...]
By Doug Mohney, on February 2nd, 2010
CounterPath Corporation has officially announced the latest version of its multimedia softphone, Bria 3.0. The company is heavily pushing Bria’s HD voice and video features in the run up to Mobile World Congress in two weeks.
Bria 3.0 supports 720p (1280×720p) video, incorporates improved usability features, synchronization with Microsoft Office address books, a troubleshooting assistant, improved [...]
By Doug Mohney, on February 2nd, 2010
NEC’s new UNIVERGE SP350 softphone will support the G.722 HD voice codec when it is released in the United States in the second quarter of 2010, said a spokesperson for the company.
Updates to the company’s website to reflect support for G.722 are in progress and are not available line as of press time, but are [...]
By Doug Mohney, on January 19th, 2010
Beating the later-week rush of IP communications news from Miami, CounterPath and Digium announced an “Asterisk-Based” multimedia softphone; basically a co-branded VoIP softphone for Asterisk.
Bria for Asterisk combines Digium’s Asterisk IP telephony platform, AsteriskNOW and Asterisk Business Edition telephony platform’s with CounterPath’s Bria Professional enterprise multimedia softphone. (Think of Bria as the hot fudge you [...]
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