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Google + GIPS = Android Video Calling?

Monday 24th May 2010 - 15:15

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With Google's recent purchase of Global IP Sound (GIPS), the company is expanding its IP communications applications arsenal. One interesting area where GIPS comes in handy is in video chat.

Apparently, GIPS recently released a video calling engine called VideoEngine which aims to deliver high quality voice and video to PC softphones, Unified Communications (UC) applications and mobile devices. In April, GIPS announced that they were "first-to-market with GIPS VideoEngine for Android, which provides mobile developers the vital building blocks for integrating video conferencing/video chat into applications running Google's Android mobile operating system." The GIPS software accounts for delay, packet loss, bandwidth limitations and echo to ensure that video conversations dynamically adjust with WiFi or 3G cellular network conditions in order to deliver quality video calling.

The new software offering seems to be an excellent reason for Google to snatch these guys up when you look at where Google plans to take its Android and other communication plays.

For more:
- read the release
- read this blog post

Related articles:
Google gets VoIP upgrade, buys GIPS
Rumor Mill: Google Voice desktop app being tested
Google's Buzz a UC play?

Source: Fierce
More about: Android
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