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Firefox brings WebRTC capabilities to your mobile device

, Feb 24th 2013 Discuss [1]

Mozilla plans on bringing Web Real-Time Communications not only to its Firefox browser on desktop PCs, but to mobile devices as well. Mozilla says that WebRTC features will be able to sync with your existing phone number, and you won’t have to download any additional plugins to use it. The WebRTC capabilities will be able to perform many functions, including voice/video calls and SMS/MMS messaging. Read The Full Story

Cirque du Soleil’s bizarre Movi.Kanti.Revo goes live with webcam control

, Sep 20th 2012 Discuss [1]

The camera-controlled Cirque du Soleil experience Google demonstrated at IO 2012 has gone live, with Movi.Kanti.Revo bringing a bizarre mixture of virtual acrobatics and dance into your browser. For Cirque du Soleil it's an opportunity to broaden its reach from the best-selling stage show; for Google, it's a chance to demonstrate why the browser is the computing arena of the future, in this case thanks to WebRTC. Read The Full Story

Microsoft challenges Google’s WebRTC work for in-browser Skype

, Aug 6th 2012 Discuss [0]

Microsoft is busy fettling Skype for in-browser use, following Google's experiments with WebRTC with a contribution of its own to the new standard. WebRTC is a new standard for open, real-time voice and video chat, using HTML and JavaScript to embed audio and video conferencing into the browser; that's great, Microsoft says, but the current proposal "falls short" of meeting what it believes is demanded of it, and so the company has come up with its own version. Read The Full Story

Chrome browser gets WebRTC baked in for Skype challenge

, Jan 19th 2012 Discuss [1]

Google has released a dev-version of Chrome supporting WebRTC, the integrated real-time audio and video communications system that could see VoIP, video conferencing and even streaming gaming baked into the browser. "Instead of relying on custom, OS specific, proprietary plug-ins," the Chromium blog says of developers, "they can now easily build and maintain their apps using a few simple JavaScript APIs and have the browser do the heavy lifting." Read The Full Story

Chrome browser to get support for gamepads and more

, Nov 25th 2011 Discuss [2]

If you are a fan of the Google Chrome browser you will appreciate this. Chrome is said to be getting an update that will add some new support to make gaming on the browser more fun. The browser will be getting support for gamepads. The tip comes from Paul Kinlan, the Google developer advocate. Kinlan made the statement at Develop Liverpool. Read The Full Story

Google adds WebRTC to Chrome as Skype threat rises

, Jun 22nd 2011 Discuss [0]

Google is baking WebRTC browser-based voice and video call support into its Chrome browser, adding fuel to rumors that the company is looking to take on Skype and other VoIP services with an install-free alternative. WebRTC, as we reported earlier this month, is an open-source project intended to put voice and video chat into the browser in a way that can be easily implemented by third-party developers; Google has already begun the process of switching Google Talk from from iSAC to the new standard. Read The Full Story

With a little work, Google Talk could blow iMessage out of the water

, Jun 10th 2011 Discuss [28]

As the rumors go, Apple’s iMessage announcement came as quite the unpleasant shock to the carriers, who until now had been happily encouraging SMS overuse on the iPhone. Reports of RIM executives weeping visibly over BBM are all anecdotal. iMessage promises to further prise the operator’s hands from the ruddy teats of the SMS cash-cow, shifting traffic to cheaper data connections instead. Yet the real game-changer may still be waiting in the wings: with a little work, Google could blow iMessage, BBM and SMS out of the water.

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Google readying Android iMessage rival tip insiders

, Jun 10th 2011 Discuss [6]

Google is reportedly preparing its own BlackBerry Messenger rival, as Apple readies iMessage for launch with iOS 5. Details on the service are unclear at present, with sources simply telling the WSJ that Google "has also recently worked on a messaging application" but sharing no further details on what, exactly, that app might look like. Read The Full Story

Google WebRTC browser voice/video chat released to take on Skype and FaceTime

, Jun 1st 2011 Discuss [7]

Google has released a developer preview of WebRTC, its open real-time voice and video chat system that uses HTML and JavaScript to put video and audio conferencing into the browser. Billed as an easy way for developers to add video/voice chat to their products, with no royalties and little in the way of technical hurdles, WebRTC has ambitions to usurp platforms like Microsoft-owned Skype and Apple FaceTime as the open alternative. Read The Full Story