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01/02/2012 - snom Introduces ONE IP PBX with Advanced Mobility Features

snom released a new version of its award-winning snom ONE IP PBX, adding advanced mobility capabilities that extend standard IP PBX calling features to employee mobile devices. The new release, introduced at ITEXPO East (Booth #512) in Miami, January 31 - February 3, also features new management and security features to more easily provision and integrate a businesses cell phone cell fleet with the snom ONE IP PBX.

snom ONE IP PBX release highlights include:

"Cell phone as an extension": The snom ONE allows cell phones to act as truly integrated extensions, incorporating call transfers, conferencing, internal extension dialling and other features.
Broad SIP client support: The snom ONE now supports mobile SIP clients, running on popular platforms such as Android and the iPhone.
Enhanced management features: The web-based interface has been enhanced to make administering the system even easier and more productive.
Enhanced remote phone security: snom ONE provides WAN-based authentication for plug and play with snom 7xx and snom 8xx series phones, alleviating the need for users to enter password information and increasing simplicity and security for remote workers.
Plug and play deployment: The snom ONE is optimized for all snom phones, enabling plug-and-play deployment and provisioning for the snom 3xx, snom 8xx and newly released snom 7xx series desktop phones, as well as other endpoints, including the snom M9 DECT phone, the snom PA1 public address system and the snom MeetingPoint conference phone.
Virtual appliance: snom ONE is available as virtual appliances for VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V via a .vhd file. This addresses the demand for hardware failover without dropping calls.
Enhanced Software Update Mechanism: The system can be updated easily via the web interface, alleviating the need to connect to the operating system to perform upgrades.

The snom ONE IP PBX is a SIP-based, full featured IP PBX optimized to work with snom phones, offering advanced features including agent groups, conference rooms, call recording, and many other features typical in a mature SIP based communications system.

The snom ONE is compatible with Windows, Linux and Mac environments and is equipped with robust web security through HTTPS and call security through TLS and SRTP. snom ONE supports mixed IPv4/IPv6 LAN and WAN environments and comes with an automatic blacklisting feature that makes it possible to expose public IP addresses. The snom ONE is also available as a turnkey system in snom ONE Plus appliances.

The snom ONE IP PBX is available in three versions: snom ONE free (downloadable), for up to 10 extensions, snom ONE yellow (for up to 20 extensions) and snom ONE blue (unlimited number of extensions and multi-tenant capabilities up to five companies). All versions offer the full feature set, including hunt and ACD groups, mailbox, auto attendant, conference rooms and paging, and are designed to take full advantage of the hardware features of snom's suite of desktop phones and endpoints. snom ONE blue also allows up to five separate corporate tenants, supporting multiple organizations to operate using a single IP PBX.

12/01/2012 - Report: 'Healthy growth' expected in number of mobile workers

Some 37 percent of the world's workforce, about 1.3 million people, will be mobile by 2015, new research finds, with the bulk of new mobile workers coming from the APAC region.

The International Data Corporation study said the Americas will experience a slower growth rate due to lingering economic woes and higher rates of unemployment. Nonetheless, the region, which includes the United States, Canada and Latin America, will see its mobile workforce grow from 182.5 million in 2010 to 212.1 million in 2015. Some 75 percent of those mobile regions will be in North America.

About 1 billion people are currently considered part of the mobile workforce.

"Mobility continues to be a critical part of the global workforce, and we expect to see healthy growth in the number of mobile workers," said Stacy Crook, senior research analyst for IDC.

The study said APAC, excluding Japan, will see the number of mobile workers grow to 838.7 million in 2015, from 601.7 million mobile workers in 2010. Strong economic growth in China and India, as well as large population numbers, are the key drivers there.

The EMEA region will see its mobile workforce grow at a CAGR of 5.6 percent, the study said.

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12/01/2012 - Ooma Unveils HD2 VoIP Handset at CES

Ooma announced at the 2012 International CES in Las Vegas, Nevada, a new cordless handset with superior HD Voice call clarity and smartphone features made possible by the Ooma cloud-enabled platform. The new cordless Ooma HD2 Handset features a two-inch color screen and picture caller-ID with the ability to automatically display Facebook profile pictures and online contact lists from Facebook, Google and Yahoo. Picture caller-ID and contact lists provide the ability to see a picture of the caller as the phone rings, download and scroll through contacts, and easily manage contacts using the My Ooma web portal.

The combination of the Ooma Telo and new Ooma HD2 Handset provides cutting-edge HD Voice call clarity by capturing twice the voice data to double the fidelity of standard phone calls, for richer, more natural-sounding conversations. The cordless handset offers superior security and range afforded by the latest DECT technology without interfering with home Wi-Fi networks or other home electronics. Up to four handsets can be used with each Ooma Telo.

One-touch voicemail access lets users check messages anywhere in the home, and there’s an intercom to talk between handsets or transfer calls. The handset’s speakerphone and headset port keep hands free for multitasking during calls. Another useful feature is the ability to configure a handset so it can be used as a baby monitor.

Ooma HD2 handset users who subscribe to Ooma Premier service (optional, $9.99/month) can enjoy even more advanced features such as an Instant Second Line, Multi-Ring to simultaneously ring another phone, three-way conferencing, a second personal number anywhere in the U.S., call screening via the built-in speakerphone, and the ability to send calls directly to voicemail with the touch of a button.

The Ooma HD2 Handset will be available in March 2012 at http://www.ooma.com and select retailers with an M.S.R.P of $59.99.

18/11/2011 - eVoice Mobile App Enables VoIP Calling from Apple Devices for Small Businesses

eVoice and j2 Global announces the availability of its latest mobile application for Apple devices. Now, owners of Apple's iPhone, iPad and iPod touch can make and receive phone calls via a WiFi connection or a 3G/4G network using VoIP. This saves precious cell phone minutes while helping to reduce the chance of dropped phone calls.

Essentially, the new eVoice Mobile App transforms an iPhone, iPad or iPod touch into a multi-purpose business phone system with powerful features, including:

Make and receive phone calls via a WiFi connection or 3G/4G network using VoIP
24/7 auto attendant to answer and route inbound calls professionally
Multiple extensions for employees, including intercom functionality
Enhanced voice mail service with transcriptions and audio files sent to email or text
Advanced call handling features including call screening

Additionally, the new eVoice Mobile App enables iPhone users to keep their personal phone number private by maintaining a separate eVoice line for business use on the same device.

eVoice Transforms the Mobile Device Into A Business-Class Phone System

According to a survey of small and mid-sized business owners conducted by The Business Journals (a division of the American City Business Journals) earlier in 2011, and reported in a press release posted on smallbiztrends.com, the use of desktops and laptops is decreasing while the use of smart phones and mobile applications is on the rise. Thirty-seven percent of SMB owners surveyed have used a smartphone or a PDA in the past year -- a 10 percentage point increase over the previous year1. Another survey conducted in 2010 by market research firm Techaisle found that one-fifth of the small businesses in the U.S., U.K., Brazil and Germany surveyed used iPads.2

The new eVoice Mobile App helps solve the problem of dropped calls in environments notorious for poor connectivity, such as a subway, train, basement office or a rural home office. Many of these locations often have good WiFi connections even when 3G/4G networks are unavailable. Utilizing the eVoice mobile application with a WiFi connection in these environments can help enable users enjoy clear, reliable communications in areas with limited cellular coverage.

New Intercom Feature Saves Money and Minutes

The new eVoice Mobile App's new Intercom feature provides a simple way for eVoice customers to instantly communicate with their most important contacts. By assigning extensions to employees, business contacts, or even family members -- eVoice users can communicate with these contacts without using any of their eVoice or mobile carrier minutes.

Key benefits of the eVoice app's new VoIP features allow users to:

Reduce cell phone minute usage (and bills) when making and receiving calls over a data connection using WiFi or a 3G/4G network
Answer every call appropriately with the ability to see caller ID and the extensions dialed on your incoming calls
Easily connect with important contacts with eVoice's unique Intercom feature
Choose the way calls are placed or received with an easy "on" "off" VoIP calling feature

The eVoice Mobile App is free to download and use immediately. With a six-month free trial offer, eVoice makes it easier than ever for individuals, entrepreneurs and small businesses to be more professional, efficient and mobile.

20/10/2011 - Vyke App Now Available on Android

Vyke announces the release of its successful market leading app on the Android platform now available to download from Android Market.

Vyke's app is a simple application designed to save customers money on international calls when they’re on the move, without compromising quality. Features include WiFi, 3G and Callthrough calling. Vyke customers can make low cost calls to anywhere in the world at a quality level comparable with fixed line phones. The fresh interface has a Quick Dial screen that lets customers set up their 12 most called contacts on speed dial.

Vyke stands by the quality of their applications and network by offering new customers $1 free credit when they create their account, giving potential customers the opportunity to try Vyke before spending their own money.

Calls with Vyke start at just £0.01 / $0.02 per minute to global destinations including calling Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Israel, Malaysia, New Zealand, Puerto Rico and Singapore amongst others.

Calls to destinations in the Vyke Zone are charged at just £0.15 / $0.25 per hour. This covers 25 top landline destinations in Europe and North America: USA, United Kingdom, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain and Sweden.

19/10/2011 - Korea Telecom Licenses SPIRIT DSP's Mobile VoIP Engine

SPIRIT DSP announces that Korean Telecom giant KT has licensed the company's TeamSpirit Voice Engine Mobile, an SDK that enables HD VoIP calling on a broad range mobile devices. KT is S. Korea's top fixed-lined operator and the No. 2 mobile carrier in the region.

Internet telephony is Korea's prominent daily communications medium. The VoIP rates are 80 percent cheaper for intercity calls, 20 percent lower for calls to mobile phones and 95 percent cheaper for international calls. According to the Korean Communications Commission, the number of paid Internet telephony subscribers broke the 10 million mark this year.

The TeamSpirit Engine is a SDK for real-time IP calling/conferencing communications, allowing business application developers and service providers to offer superior quality communications products to millions of global users. The TeamSpirit Engine software uniquely combines scalable echo- and noise-free audio with scalable video, a necessary marriage to ensure the highest quality conferencing experience. TeamSpirit enables many hours of battery life in wideband talk mode. The voice engine includes highly optimized standard voice codecs and a patent-free wideband error-resilient scalable SPIRIT IP-MRTM voice codec (IETF RFC 6262). The video engine includes SPIRIT's H.264 scalable video codec that is able to adapt streams to each peer’s network and PC environments without heavy transcoding and it includes a multi-component stream protection module that compensates for network jitter and packet loss.

17/10/2011 - Report: Mobile VoIP Subscribers will Near 410 Million by 2015; VoLTE Still a Long Way Off

Infonetics Research released excerpts from its new Mobile VoIP Services and Subscribers report, which tracks native mobile voice over IP (a.k.a. voice over Long Term Evolution, or VoLTE) and over-the-top mVoIP service revenue, subscribers, and deployments by world region.

ANALYST NOTE

"The adoption of over-the-top mobile VoIP services is growing rapidly but it is not without challenges. With free applications and extremely low revenue from users, it is tricky for application providers without the deep pockets of larger companies like Google, Microsoft, and Telefónica to have a sustainable long-term business model. Despite the fact that we expect mobile VoIP subscribers to grow nearly 10-fold from 2010 to 2015, there is relatively little money to be made from it in the near term," poses Diane Myers, directing analyst for VoIP and IMS at Infonetics Research.

Co-author of the report Stéphane Téral, Infonetics Research's principal analyst for mobile infrastructure, adds: "As LTE becomes the universal mobile infrastructure, TDM voice -- which is a $500 billion-a-year business -- will migrate to VoLTE (native mobile VoIP). In the near term, though, two key challenges need to be addressed: the world needs widely available LTE handsets that support VoLTE -- and we're nowhere near that stage -- and Single Radio Voice Call Continuity needs to be finalized so that voice calls work seamlessly between LTE and legacy networks. Make no mistake: VoLTE is the future; it will just take many years to get there."

MOBILE VOIP MARKET HIGHLIGHTS

OTT providers, led by frontrunner Skype, dominate the worldwide mobile VoIP services market
Infonetics Research forecasts the number of mobile VoIP subscribers to grow from 47 million in 2010 to almost 410 million by 2015, driven by increased smartphone and mobile broadband adoption
Native mobile VoIP will launch with Verizon's VoLTE service in 2012, but will remain an extremely small portion of the total mobile VoIP market until there is full LTE coverage around the world, not likely until around 2020
In 2010, operators made on average only $13.21 per user per year from mobile VoIP services, demonstrating how little revenue there is to be made from OTT mVoIP services

10/10/2011 - Voip-Pal.Com and VoipSwitch Work Together to Re-deploy the Latest in Voip-Pal's Mobile Apps

Voip-Pal.Com is pleased to announce that it will begin re-deployment of its VoIP products and services using AWARD WINNING softswitch platform and mobile dialers (apps) provided and customized by VoipSwitch Inc., a subsidiary of VoiceServe Inc.

"Voip-Pal will be using a management softswitch platform and the latest in mobile apps provided and customized by VoipSwitch Inc. to re-deploy our retail site www.pointsphone.com," states Dennis Chang, President of Voip-Pal. "Our three year relationship with VoipSwitch Inc. will meet its full potential when our site is re-deployed. With their state-of-the-art technology and our marketing channels, Voip-Pal will prove that it will truly be an international presence in the VoIP smartphone and smartphone security market arena."

By redeploying its proven voip switch software and mobile apps from the old standard server to its new cloud based server, Voip-Pal will enhance its offering with the latest available voip mobile apps available on the technology market today. Combined with an added mobile security program and the speed of cloud based technology, Voip-Pal will be in an ideal position to take advantage of the growing worldwide voip market for today's smartphones – Android, iPhone, Blackberry, Symbian and Windows Mobile 7 OS platforms.

06/10/2011 - Videoconferencing's new popularity driven by mobile, consumerization

"Mobility" has become the new buzzword for the videoconferencing industry, with multiple companies releasing new apps to take advantage of the increasing demand for solutions that address everything from telecommuting to distance learning and telemedicine. Videoconferencing was once the domain of large enterprises only. But consumerization of the technology, dropping prices and increasing quality has changed the segment and made it more appealing to smaller enterprises, the SMB community and even "mom and pop" businesses. Special Report

13/09/2011 - VoX Communications Partners with LightSquared to Launch Mobile Voice and Video Services

LightSquared, a nationwide wireless broadband network, announced that it has signed a multi-year wholesale agreement with VoIP provider VoX Communications. VoX is culminating its strategy to add mobile functionality to its existing IP network platform by launching new mobile services and applications, including voice and video, on LightSquared's network.

09/09/2011 - Fonality Unified Communications App Now Generally Available on iPhone and Android Platforms

Fonality announces the general availability of Fonality Heads Up Display Mobile. More than 6,000 users have already purchased Fonality services to access the application. Purpose-built for the unique needs of small- and mid-size businesses, Fonality HUD Mobile provides cloud-based VoIP, Unified Communications and contact center solutions via Apple or Android platforms with a single, secure, user-friendly interface.

Fonality HUD Mobile delivers UC and contact center features never before available to SMBs. For example, contact center managers working remotely can access a 360-degree view of all activities with color-coded agent status, call type details, as well as duration. Calls can be recorded on-the-fly or engaged through barge, monitor or whisper modes. In addition, staff can log in and out of queues, regardless of location. Other prominent features include Voice over Wi-Fi calling, saving an average 56 percent on monthly mobile costs, as well as user’s real-time presence, company directory access and collaboration capabilities.

One of the first customers to adopt Fonality HUD Mobile, Larson Financial & Insurance, an exclusive provider of a top-three national insurance company, has used the application to provide greater flexibility to its employees in the field, allowing their team to better communicate with support staff across the company’s five branches.

Designed for SMBs, Fonality offers VoIP, UC and contact center solutions that are simple to use, easy to manage and affordable to deploy. The company’s cloud-based model provides the same services of traditional IP systems without costly hardware, infrastructure or lengthy implementation cycles. Total cost of ownership is dramatically reduced by 50 percent, or more, while users enjoy access to powerful communications services usually reserved for the largest of companies.

16/08/2011 - Digium Introduces Switchvox Mobile Application for Android Phones and Tablets

Digium has extended the value of its Switchvox Unified Communications solution for small to mid-sized businesses by adding free support for Android devices. The Switchvox Mobile application now integrates Digium's Switchvox SMB communications solution with Android as well as iPhone and BlackBerry devices at no extra cost to customers. With the Switchvox Mobile app, Switchvox SMB customers can:

make, receive, transfer and record calls as if they were calling from the office extension
check their call history
view and change call rules, such as routing and forwarding
change their out-of-office greeting
access the company directory and return calls via email
use the Switchvox app from their Android-based tablet to perform tasks such as returning voice messages using email.

Switchvox's mobility with fixed mobile convergence capabilities allow users to select up to five phones of any type, including smartphone, VoIP, digital, analog or soft phone, to converge with their Switchvox extension. These converged phones can easily transfer a call to any phone or number over a Wi-Fi or cellular network. Customers can also fully integrate these converged phones with their interactive user interface, the Switchvox Switchboard. Click here to see an interactive demonstration of the Switchvox Mobility features: www.digium.com/mobility.

Switchvox is based on Asterisk, the world's most widely adopted open source communications engine. Because Asterisk is at its core, Switchvox can offer a feature set that rivals those of the most expensive UC solutions, but at a price that small businesses can afford. Digium, the UC solution leader, imposes no licensing charges for advanced features, such as those that extend the power of the UC system to employees' mobile devices through FMC support. This approach means that Switchvox customers pay 60 to 80 percent less than companies buying comparable VoIP business phone systems. In acknowledgement of this fact, industry analyst firm Frost & Sullivan recognized Switchvox this year with the Customer Value Enhancement Award for UC Solutions. To read the full report, go to http://info.digium.com/frost-sullivan-best-customer-value-report/.

09/08/2011 - Telchemy Goes Mobile: Introduces VoIP/ Videoconferencing Performance Monitoring Agents for Android

Telchemy announces SQlive for Android, an agent for mobile handsets that measures the user perceived quality of standards based VoIP and Videoconferencing services and DVQattest for Android, an active test agent for mobile handsets. Both SQlive and DVQattest report MOS scores and a wide range of diagnostic data, giving service providers near real time visibility of service quality.

SQlive measures the user Quality of Experience of live VoIP and Videoconferencing services running over the 3G/4G data connection of mobile handsets. SQlive uses Telchemy’s VQmon advanced performance measurement algorithms to calculate MOS scores; VQmon computes estimated Video and Audio MOS from key parameters such as the codec type, bandwidth, packet loss, loss distribution, jitter, delay and elements of content, using an advanced perceptual algorithm that models the impact of time varying quality on subjective opinion. SQlive uses a small fraction of the available processing power and memory of a typical smartphone and is able to run non-intrusively, monitoring the performance of any IP/UDP/RTP based voice, audio or video streams running to or from mobile applications installed on the handset.

DVQattest for Android generates synthetic VoIP and Videoconferencing calls, as well as HTTP, POP3 and SMTP test transactions, over the 3G/4G data connection of a mobile handset. The DVQattest Agent is managed from a central DVQattest Controller, which can schedule tests or request tests on demand. This provides a highly controllable distributed mobile test platform that is ideal for automated assessment of network performance.

Telchemy was recently awarded US Patent 7869377 which complements these two new products. This patent relates to the integration of perceptual quality measurement for packet voice, audio and video services into mobile handsets, set top boxes, video decoders and user interfaces.

SQlive and DVQattest for Android is available to service providers, infrastructure equipment and handset vendors for evaluation and trial.

27/07/2011 - Vonage Adds Free Mobile Extensions

Vonage is allowing customers to extend their Vonage home calling plans to any phone, including mobiles. The move allows customers to use Vonage's signature unlimited international calling plans from their mobile phones to call friends and family abroad. The new service offering -- Extensions -- is free to all Vonage customers and builds upon Vonage's history of providing unsurpassed value to customers for both domestic and international calling.

Existing customers can add any U.S. phone number as an extension by logging into their online account at www.vonage.com. The extension phone number can be a cell phone, a home phone or even an office number. Once registered, the service works like a virtual calling card. Simply dial the access number and international destination number and the call is connected over the Vonage network.

Extensions works with any mobile phone, and in the next several weeks Vonage plans to offer downloadable apps for iPhone® and Android devices, enabling one-touch dialing directly from the customer's contact list.

Customers with the Vonage World plan will now have the additional flexibility of unlimited calling to more than 60 countries from their cell phones in addition to from their home phone. Those who call internationally for as little as an hour a week will save an average of $250 a year versus the best international rates from major wireless carriers.

26/07/2011 - PortaOne, MailVision Announce Interoperability of PortaSwitch With PICO Mobile VoIP Platform

PortaOne announces the successful completion of interoperability testing between PortaOne's PortaSwitch VoIP call control/subscriber management platform and MailVision's PICO Mobile VoIP Client Management System. The compatibility is a major advancement for VoIP telephony providers and their customers, enabling easy, inexpensive VoIP calling and value-added services on smart devices including iPhone/iPad/iPod touch, Android, BlackBerry and Nokia smartphones.

MailVision's PICO Mobile Client system supports private-branded delivery of high quality VoIP telephony and SMS via WiFi and 3G data networks. The PICO mobile client is distributed, managed, configured and upgraded remotely by the Client Management System that gives telcos, NGNs, ITSPs and carriers a complete solution for managing business, residential and roaming customers.

Compatibility with PICO provides even greater value to PortaSwitch, one of the industry's most reliable and popular integrated VoIP infrastructure systems. The PortaSwitch family, which includes the PortaBilling customer management application, is capable of handling the complete call control, routing, proxying, and converged VoIP billing functions of a diversified digital services company, enabling wholesale VoIP carriers and telecommunication service providers to deliver a wide variety of business models quickly and flexibly.

PortaSwitch consists of a real-time billing system, class 4/5 SIP softswitch, and media applications that deliver converged VoIP billing and provisioning, SIP call control, unified messaging, IP Centrex and hosted IP PBX, callback management, IVRs, conferencing and more.

20/07/2011 - Viber 3G VoIP Mobile App Coming to Android

Viber, a mobile application that offers users free phone calls and text messaging to other Viber users over 3G and Wi-Fi, announced the official launch of the Android version of the app, bringing Viber to millions of additional users. Viber also announced that it has acquired over 12 million active users (last 30 days) and has an impressive call traffic volume of over one billion minutes of calls per quarter.

28/06/2011 - fring Brings Mobile Group Video to iPad

fring, the mobile communication service that pioneered mobile video over internet calls across smartphone platforms, now brings the world’s first dedicated group video chat service to the iPad.

09/03/2011 - VoIP-PAL Working on New iPad 2 App

VoIP-PAL announced the development of integrating the video conferencing feature on forthcoming new PointsPhone Mobile App for the iPhone 4G and Apple's new iPad 2. The App and the new Video Calling feature will soon be available for free downloading at the Apple App Store.

22/02/2011 - LifeSize Video Center Introduces Mobile HD Video Streaming

LifeSize, a division of Logitech, has just announced HD video content streaming on mobile devices using LifeSize Video Center. According to the company, now organizations can benefit from "greater communication reach and flexibility" by using HD video streaming, recording and auto-publishing to make video content available to teams working remotely on mobile devices, such as iPads and iPhones.

20/01/2011 - IPsmarx Releases New Line of VoIP Mobile Dialers for iPhone, Android, and Windows Mobile

IPsmarx announced the release of Breeze, their new line of VoIP Mobile Dialers that can be used with smartphones, such as the iPhone, Windows Mobile, and Android devices.

17/01/2011 - Mobile VoIP Gateway Revenues to Soar Past $6 Billion in 2015

VoIP is spreading from the fixed-line world to the mobile world. Usage is on the rise creating significant opportunity for mobile VoIP gateway equipment suppliers as expenditures in this space are expected to soar beyond the $6 billion mark in 2015, says In-Stat.

07/01/2011 - Skype to Acquire Qik

Skype has announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Qik, a provider of mobile video software and services. Qik has 60 employees, and is headquartered in Redwood City, California and has an office in Moscow, Russia. The transaction is expected to close in January 2011. The companies informed that terms of the acquisition will not be disclosed.

13/12/2010 - Fring Launches Dynamic Video Quality Mobile Calling

fring announced the rollout of its network-optimized DVQ mobile video calling technology. The company’s proprietary DVQ (dynamic video quality) technology adjusts video bit rate and frame rate according to the specific device to match current network bandwidth during a call, delivering the best possible video picture quality for available bandwidth between call peers.

18/11/2010 - China Sourcing Report: VoIP Products 2010

Traffic upswing in the mobile VoIP sector in China is expected to exceed 100 percent annually till 2014, according to Research and Markets’ recently released "China Sourcing Report: VoIP Products 2010" report.

20/10/2010 - HelloSoft Announces The Availability Of Video On Its Mobile Communicator Clients

HelloSoft announced at 4G World, the availability of video on its range of communicator offerings for 4G devices. HelloSoft Communicator™ is a client for PC’s, tablets, smartphones and other mobile devices that offers full VOIP, convergence and rich communication suites for mobile devices, and is now enabling support for video calling, sharing and teleconferencing. HelloSoft’s full range of award winning client solutions are available as white label clients for operators around the world and for leading ODM’s and OEMs.

HelloSoft’s comprehensive video processing framework and video QoS technology ensures top quality video under varied network conditions. H.263 and H.264 based video client solutions are available for PC platforms and for mobile platforms such as Android, Windows Mobile, and upcoming for iPhone. Other platforms such as Linux, MAC, and Symbian are under development. This comprehensive offering enables service providers and OEMs quick time to market for presenceenabled rich communication on a wide range of devices.

“HelloSoft’s video offering solves the problem of high quality video calling on resource constrained mobile devices. Service providers, OEMs and mobile application developers can utilize HelloSoft’s easy to integrate video engine or full video client to quickly roll out superior quality, presenceenabled V2OIP on a range of devices, ” says Allan Johnson, HelloSoft’s SVP of Marketing and Product Management.

"GIPS acquisition by Google validates this market,” continued Johnson, “With Google being focused internally on their own products, there is a large gap in the market for this type of solution and GIPS customers may be looking for an upgrade path. HelloSoft’s solution addresses this gap.”

Michael Stanford, an analyst at Wirevolution.com commented:

“40% of Skype calls use video, and now video calling is going mobile, driven by the abundant bandwidth of 4G and Wi-Fi networks, and by the imminent flood of video-calling capable mobile endpoints. High end smartphones increasingly have user-facing cameras; soon hundreds of millions of cell phones and tablets will be video-calling capable. Skype and Facetime are the current volume brand leaders for videophone mobile client software, but as the market develops many service providers will prefer standards-based solutions.”

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