CES 2010: Skype TV media tour in pictures

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 [...]

CES 2010 – Pictures from the HD Voice Summit – Part Two

A second set of pictures from the HD Voice Summit at 2010 CES

XConnect presents its peering trial.  Details should be out the week of January 18.

“Mobile HD Voice-Services and Handsets” panel.  At the podium Dan Shey, Practice Director. Mobile Services, ABI Research. From left to right, Jim Machi, Senior VP – Marketing, Dialogic;Patrik Ringqvist, Vice [...]

CES 2010 – Pictures from the HD Voice Summit – Part One

Some pictures from the HD Voice Summit at 2010 CES last week in Las Vegas.

“Defining HD Voice” Panel – Rob Pegoraro, Consumer Technology Columnist, Washington Post at the podium;Mike Rude VP Business Development, DSP Group in the middle; Jan Linden, VP Engineering, Global IP Solutions to the right.

“HD Voice – Deployments around the world” panel [...]

CES – Trinity Convergence provides Skype stack for HDTV

Embedded software house Trinity Convergence announced it was the one supplying Skype with software to enable Skype video calling on HDTVs.  A spokesperson with the company said it was getting “a flurry of calls” after Skype’s announcement.

Trinity Convergence has integrated its VeriCall voice and video software engine with the Skype embedded SDK to enable fast [...]

CES 2010 – Skype talks TV, swarms event

Las Vegas – Skype was in force at CES for the debut of its software on high-end Panasonic and nearly all LG HDTVs coming out by mid-2010.   The company was making the most of  its announcement enabling the aforementioned TV sets to make and receive audio and video calls with a bit more hardware.

Without being [...]

Editorial – Sorry about the delay from CES and HD Voice Summit

Las Vegas – Murphy’s Law exerted its force on my Acer Aspire One netbook at about 8 AM local time yesterday and the hotel network connectivity was clobbered last night.

Tweets of key points yesterday are posted at @hdvoicenews and I should have some news posted up later tonight local time…

- Doug Mohney
Editor-in-Chief

Skype gets its software into Panasonic, LG HDTVs

FYI  Jonathan Christensen, GM, Audio and Video, Skype will be speaking tomorrow (January 6) at the HD Voice Summit at 2010 CES.

Skype today announced all sorts of goodies today, but getting its software embedded into Panasonc and LG HDTVs so people can make wideband voice and HD video calls from the couch.  Isn’t that interesting?

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Communications policy during 2010 CES and HD Voice Summit this week

With travel early tomorrow to Las Vegas for CES and the HD Voice Summit at 2010 CES on Wednesday, January 6, 2010,  I wanted to provide a “heads up” on what may or may not be happening on TwitterID: HDvoiceNews and www.hdvoicenews.com

Since I am providing speaker coordination for the HD Voice Summit on Wednesday afternoon [...]

Among the Moderators for HD Voice Summit at 2010 CES

Among the moderators at the HD Voice Summit at 2010 CES are–

Rob Pegoraro, Technology Columnist, Washington Post

Erik Linask, Group Editorial Director, TMC

Richard Romagnino, Vice President Business Development, VoiceAge Corporation

Dan Shey, Practice Director – Mobile Services, ABI Research

Andy Abramson, CEO, Comunicano, Inc./”VoIP Watch”

Rob Pegoraro has been [...]

Editorial meetings at 2010 CES and IT EXPO

The CES “crunch” is on and since I’m spending a larger-than-expected chunk of time on last minute HD Voice Summit issues (and have you visited the LinkedIn group yet, anyway?), if you are looking for briefing time at CES, please email ASAP rather than ATLM (At the last moment).

Requests for meetings should be directed to [...]