Archive for September, 2010

eZuce Presents An Open Source Enterprise Level Unified Communications Solution

Saturday, September 4th, 2010

Open Source Enterprise UC Solution, OpenUC, From eZuce http://snapvoip.blogspot.com/
eZuce, a company formed by the creators of SIPFoundry, Dr. Martin Steinmann and Jerry Stabile, announced a enterprise grade UC solution, last month. Since I was away from blogging for almost a month, I missed the opportunity to present them to my readers.
SIPFoundry was one of my [...]

China Follows The West, Requires ID for Cellphone SIMs

Saturday, September 4th, 2010

China Requires ID for Cellphone numbers http://snapvoip.blogspot.com/
Sighting that more than 320 million cell phone users who are unidentifiable and the growing numbers of mobile spammers, pornography and fraud, Chinese government has began to tighten the knot. Most Western countries too require an ID and / or credit card information when purchasing a Cellphone or a [...]

Set Top Boxes Inside Your TV and Bluray Players?

Saturday, September 4th, 2010

End of set top Boxes?
Plex -LG Deal will put Set Top Boxes Inside TVs http://snapvoip.blogspot.com/
Plex, a friend of Open Source Project XBMC has inked a deal with LG Electronics to bring Plex’s  media platform inside LGs HDTVs and Bluray players.
These will be real challenge to Apple TV and Boxee Box (another friend of XBMC project) [...]

Skype Introduces 10-Way Video Calling

Friday, September 3rd, 2010

Skype — apparently pleased with its five-way beta group video-calling functionality — has just released a new version of Skype 5.0 for Windows that doubles group support. It now allows for up to 10 video callers.Skype 5.0 beta two is already available for download; it includes 10-way video calls, automatic call [...]

Android Eating Into iOS Share? Android Surging On Mobole Web Consumption.

Friday, September 3rd, 2010

Android gaining on iOS. http://snapvoip.blogspot.com/
According to a very informative post only comprising of only two graphs, (one of them shown above), on Quantcast blog, Android Mobile Web Consumption is on the rise, while iOS bases such activities are on the decline. Blackberries seem to keep a steady phase at about 10%.
Quantcast is a web/net measurement [...]

Archos Unveils A Series Of Android Tablets And Media Players.

Friday, September 3rd, 2010

Archos Android Tablets http://snapvoip.blogspot.com/
Archos have added five more devices to their lineup but some how these five devices seem to surpass all previous Archos gadgets. I am happy that the news of shelving the Archos Arm Cortex based phone tablet found to be untrue.
All five new devices have adopted a new naming convention, based on [...]

Cisco making a play for Skype?

Thursday, September 2nd, 2010

 Cisco is reportedly looking to buy Skype before the Internet phone provider goes public.  The blog TechCrunch posted over the weekend that Cisco made an offer for Skype before it completed its IPO process. The site attributed the unconfirmed information to "reliable sources."
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Crestron offers new MTX-3 wireless touchpanel remote

Thursday, September 2nd, 2010

The MTX-3 offers seamless interaction with AV and environmental systems, providing true feedback of all settings, and displaying metadata information for all digital media.  Crestron’s infiNET EX wireless technology provides reliable two-way communications throughout a residence or commercial structure utilising a 2.4 GHz mesh network.
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Email Overload Management With Priority Inbox Feature Of GMail

Wednesday, September 1st, 2010

Email overload? Try Priority Inbox http://snapvoip.blogspot.com/
If you are like me, there will be hundreds of new emails to be read at any given time. That is after filtering out spam, chain letters with excellent Spam management capabilities of GMail.
So for people like me or us, Google is rolling out a new feature called “Priority Inbox”, [...]

Skype Birthday Note from Startup Weekend Education by the Bay

Wednesday, September 1st, 2010

I pitched and demoed Practisimo tonight at the end of Startup Weekend ? Education at San Francisco’s Dogpatch Labs. Practisimo is a foreign language practice service. Practisimo brings native speakers to people who already know language who need to practice to keep their language skills alive. We started from scratch Saturday night, after killing our [...]