Tablet Releases Mark Rough Road Ahead for Video Chat
The new breed of mobile devices with front-facing cameras, including Android-based tablets and the Dell Streak, needs better video chatting standards. Android – Video – Dell Streak – Mobile device – tablet
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Black Hat video feed hacked
For a conference made up of professional hackers, you’d think they would ensure the security of the video feed. But at least one person managed to hack the Black Hat Briefings video, offered for 5 as an alternative for people who couldn’t travel to the Las Vegas conference location.
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TIA Applauds House Committee Improvements to ’21st Century Communications & Video Accessibility Act’
TIA appreciates the the House Energy & Commerce Committee’s commitment to ensuring the bill meets the dual goals of continued availability of accessible technology without hampering technological innovation that is the hallmark of America’s ICT industry.
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The Grandstream GXV3005 is an easy and affordable way of communicating face-to-face over any distance. It is ideal for any multi-media communication environment, the virtual office and all IP video communications for business or residential users. The Grandstream GXV3005 features the same design and all of the functionality as its sister model, the GXV3000; however it is gifted with the advanced versatility of an FXO PSTN line port. The addition of the FXO interface enables customers to make/receive phone calls using their traditional home land-line telephone service on the GXV3005.
The Grandstream GXV3005 is based on the same high performing feature set as the popular GXV3000 including a 5.6 inch TFTP adjustable LCD screen, a VGA camera which allows nearly all viewing angles, support for real-time high-quality video (up to 30 frames per second) using H.264/H.263 video standard at bandwidths as low as 32kbps and up to 1Mbps. The additional FXO/PSTN port supports calling over and between two networks (IP and PSTN network) from a single phone and offers both a layer of security and back up for IP video phone communication by providing the option of a PSTN life line.
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Fring Adds 3G Video Calling to iPhone 4, Android, and Nokia Phones
Popular mobile VoIP and chat client Fring has updated its mobile app to add support for 2-way video calling for the iPhone 4.
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Fring VoIP Video Calling iPhone App Approved
If you’ve familiar with FaceTime for the iPhone 4, but aren’t quite satisfied with it, there is another alternative that has popped up in Apple’s app store. The alternative is Fring, a cross platform mobile app that allows you to make two-way video calls over a WiFi or 3G network connection. As it is a [...]
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Fring steps up to FaceTime with two-way iPhone video calls over 3G
FaceTime competitor Fring has two cards up its sleeve, one of which is the capability to make two-way video calls over not only Wi-Fi, but also 3G.
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Fring enables 3G video calls on iPhone 4
Find FaceTime’s iPhone 4-only limitation unappealing? Fring lets you make video calls from any phone. And you can do so over 3G — not just Wi-Fi.
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Fring adds 2-way 3G video calls to iPhone 4 [Video]
The iPhone 4 may have re-popularised the idea of mobile video calls, with its WiFi-only FaceTime system, but its taken Fring to bring true 3G video calling to the smartphone (and make it cross-platform compatible too). The company’s newest release – available for Android, Series 60 and iOS – now supports video calls over 3G networks, as well as the usual VoIP and text chat. If you’re an iOS4 …
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Infonetics Research: Broadband, video, and mobile services fuel the residential services market
CAMPBELL, CA–(Marketwire – 07/01/10) – Market research firm Infonetics Research ( http://twitter.com/infonetics ) today released excerpts from its Residential Voice, Data, and Video Services in North America market share and forecast report. “The residential services market is in rapid transition. The decline of traditional fixed-line voice service and the rise of …
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Skype Dials Up Group Video Calling
The Skype 5.0 Beta includes free multi-party video calling, and it attracts a lot of attention from SMBs and entrepreneurs. But is it ready as a business communications tool?
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Frost & Sullivan Research Rates LifeSize Communications Highest Among HD Video Communications Providers Serving the …
LONDON, June 22 /PRNewswire/ — Based on its recent research in the global healthcare market, Frost & Sullivan has presented LifeSize with the 2010 Global Visual Collaboration Price Performance Value Leadership Award.
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Skype unveils SkypeKit API to allow developers to use VoIP and video chat in hardware and software
VOiP and video chat is about to get a lot more transparent. Skype has just announced a new SDK called SkypeKit which is aimed at allowing developers to embed VoIP and video call functionality into their applications and consumer electronics, piggybacking on the Skype network without any requirement for the Skype application to be running. The [...]
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foneBro.com Introduces New Global Video Conferencing App for Facebook™ Users and It Works on Smart Phones Beginning …
foneBro.com ™ has released a new real-time video conferencing application for Facebook™ and Smart Phone users. foneBro’s app is friendly to all browsers and webcams and now bridges all PC and Mac computers globally with Smart Phones. The systems low bandwidth requirements make it user-friendly to all countries, with no bandwidth encumbering or large-file downloading to your computer, such as …
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Skype calls up the mobile video future
Skype CEO Josh Silverman fronted the telecom industry yesterday and told them his firm would succeed where they had failed in making a business out of mobile video calls.
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House Subcommittee Schedules June 10 Hearing On Video Accessibility Act
The House Communications Subcommittee will hold a June 10 hearing on the Twenty-First Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2009 (HR 3101).
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House Slates Hearing on Video Accessibilty Bill
Twenty-First Century Communications and Video Accessiblity Act would apply FCC accessbility…
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Poll Technica: Will FaceTime herald an era of video calling?
Apple CEO Steve Jobs spent a lot of time discussing iPhone 4’s new FaceTime video calling feature during Monday’s WWDC keynote presentation. The feature combines the iPhone 4’s front-facing camera with software that automatically connects two contacts, and Jobs suggested the feature finally delivers on a long-promised feature of science fiction. “I grew up here in the US with The Jetsons and …
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Media phones and portable video conferencing: Q&A with UMEC’s Kevin Mar
With the economic recovery still on shaky ground and instability rearing its head throughout the world, companies have continued to trim business travel budgets. To stay connected, businesses are relying more than ever on video communications. Digitimes recently sat with Kevin Mar, Universal MicroElectronics (UMEC) business development director for ICP (Internet communication products), to …
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Skype to Launch Video Chat App for All Android Smartphones
Skype announced it will release a chat app with video in 2010 that will be available to all smartphones running Android — unlike the Verizon Skype app for Android that’s open only to Verizon customers.
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