damaka has launched a video mail service that will allow users to leave an audio/video message using their webcam. The new videomail service is an addition to the already existing portfolio offered by damaka which offers IPTV, DialOutâ„¢, video conferencing, desktop sharing, and FastFileâ„¢ transfer.
damaka also allows small and medium-sized operators to use its P2P [...]
Janus Friis, millionaire and co-founder (with Niklas Zennstrom) of Skype (VoIP software) and Kazaa (file sharing client), has been silent on his blog. Not a single entry at all in November (as of this writing), and certainly nothing more about The Venice Project, the top secret closed beta of his and Niklas Zennstrom’s rumored-to-be groundbreaking [...]
Blogger Alec Saunders thinks that the new, sort-of-top secret but not, The Venice Project by Kazaa and Skype cofounders Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom, is already sunk, and gives three reasons why (my rebuttal below). Venice marries the P2P (peer-to-peer) technology of Kazaa with IPTV (Internet Protocol TV). Om Malik presented an interview with Janus [...]
APT has a new audio codec (code-decoder) for live performances, which they will be testing with Shure Inc., in Shure’s new digital wireless microphone. The algorithm is designed for performances that will be broadcast over wireless links. Because of the low lag time, this could potentially be useful for the live online concerts that Microsoft [...]
My father, a retired professor who continues his side interest of real estate brokering, sent me an email last week that completely surprised me. Whenever a new VoIP soft phone shows up online, I usually download it and give it a go. My father has served as my test subject several times, as he’s usually [...]