Kevin Tofel waxes on about Skype video in the browser today over at GigaOm. The story points out that Skype and Microsoft integrated this in to the cloud based Outlook.com, but are not using native RTC, and instead require a plugin. But lets dig a bit deeper into this. The non native integration demonstrates that … Read more
The San Diego area is known largely for bio-tech and mobile leadership, largely due to Qualcomm and its dominance on the local technology scene. But quietly, the region is becoming home to some of the more rapidly growing VoIP companies on both an infrastructure level. Whose here? Well for starters here's three—Sansay, Phone.com and Telcentris. … Read more
Like many of you, I live on conference calls. Meet me on the bridge is a standard part of our vocabularly, with calls on the calendar to avoid a call you're expecting being missed by a call you didn't expect. Yesterday on a conference call using Citrix's GoToMeeting with James Tagg, CTO and Founder of … Read more
Recently WebRTC has come into the forefront with active discussions on the VUC and now a back and forth on Twitter with some of the brighter minds I know on the subject of technology adoption chiming in. The Twitter back and forth reminds me of a group of guys sitting around the bar discussing the … Read more
A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to sit down with the founders of Voxeet, a new audio conferencing service that just launched their iOS and Android apps after finishing on top in a competition sponsored by Bandwidth.com. Previously they had a Windows app and are promising a Mac client shortly. In an era where … Read more
I was thinking about adding a section to VoIPWatch called WebRTCWatch, so I was happy to see that the folks at TMC (Rich, Eric, Tom, Paula) have powered a new site called WebRTC World. It's a very nice compendium of news edited and compiled by Phil Edholm. With WebRTC taking a center stage this year … Read more
PC World has taken a look at 2012's top video conferencing services that are both app and cloud oriented in their most recent issue. Back in the day, SightSpeed, now owned by Logitech, used to win this award, but it seems Logitech has stopped pursuing accolades for the once dominant service. (Note my agency, Comunicano, … Read more
