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Friday, May 28th, 2010 | Author: admin

fring-android Fring has always been the first to bring various services to the mobile phone, but that’s a different story that they never provided best service altogether. Today they have announced video calling on Android handsets.

The new Fring client for Android has all the usual VoIP and messaging functions: aggregating identities from Skype, GTalk and SIP-based telephony services, as well as ICQ, AIM and, but new thing is all about video-calling goodness with their iPhone and Symbian contacts, out of the box.

Google announced that it would acquire Global IP Solutions Holding, a large provider of the VOIP engine that powers Yahoo, AOL, WebEx and Lotus conferencing. Why? The Plan is to bring Video conferencing to Android.

Telepresence might be something Cisco has been patting its back for since long. But Skype his here to challenge them with free alternative.

A year back, Skype became HD capable (720p) and now combined with Group video chat, I see some great opportunities.

Google continues it’s never ending endeavour to capture the web, acquires mobile advertising company AdMob and VoIP startup Gizmo5.

Let’s discuss both acquisitions in detail.

AdMob Acquisition

This is Google’s 3rd largest acquisition ever. Google announced it’s buying AdMob, a provider of mobile ad technologies, for $750 million in stock. This could give the relatively small market for ads on mobile devices a BIG PUSH.

With the acquisition Google gets better grip on Mobile industry with Android software already on increasing popularity .. Read Further »

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Tuesday, November 03rd, 2009 | Author: admin

Google Voice has long threatened other VOIP providers – Google Voice Killing Skype made sense, but there’s something to compete:  Ribbit Mobile.

Ribbit Mobile is a cloud-based VoIP telephony service that brings together web-based calling, smart call routing and voicemail .. Read Further »

Monday, October 05th, 2009 | Author: admin

As rumored earlier, it’s finally out today: Voice Chat for Facebook. Though this isn’t Facebook’s native feature but rather through Vivox App. Vivox is a popular voice chat provider for Most Computer games and the Second Life.

Today, Vivox Voice Facebook app has launched in beta.

We earlier saw How Skype eBay Dispute could Finish Skype. After all the Dispute between Skype’s Parent company and eBay, this had to end this way.
Most of Internet phone unit is sold for $2.75 billion to a group of private investors, including Netscape founder’s new venture capital firm.
eBay announced a deal Tuesday to sell its Skype online calling service to a group of private investors, led by the Silicon Valley private equity firm Silver Lake Partners.

The buyers will pay eBay $1.9 billion in cash, which includes a loan from eBay of $125 million, for 65 percent of the company. EBay will .. Read Further »

Monday, August 24th, 2009 | Author: admin

Earlier we talked about Apple Publicly Responds to FCC on Google Voice App Status and App Store – When they declared that “Google Voice alters iPhone experience“, and now AT&T admits something that we knew but was never official I believe.
In a .. Read Further »

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Thursday, August 20th, 2009 | Author: admin

Cloud Telecomputers' Glass Android SIP/PBX phoneAndroid till date were seen on Mobiles. But we knew it was coming. Android being opensource, can occupy almost every Gadget segment we can think of.

Run Android on PC in VMWare, Virtualbox

Till now we have seen A Tablet, Laptop running Android. Now it’s .. Read Further »

Sunday, August 02nd, 2009 | Author: admin

eBay filed a concern with SEC – A legal dispute between the Skype unit and Joltid - the organisation from which Skype was purchased.  If nothing is done, the entire Skype service could die.

Skype is the largest carrier of international telephony in the world (around 8% of global traffic). though Skype provides alot of free calls, but an increasing number of customers are using the paid Skype Out service – amounting to 8.4 billion minutes alone in 2008.

On page 15 of eBay’s quarterly SEC filing, it wrote the following -

(Don’t worry if you don’t understand this, .. Read Further »

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