ooVoo is a video communication service focused on delivering first class video communications through the internet, delivered anywhere and at anytime with up to 6 people simultaneously.
In 2010 they will release call on mobile phones.
We met with Marty Walker who told us about the company and how their system works.
InternetQ specializes on mega mobile promotions; they are a one-stop-shop for socializing, e-shopping, gaming on web and mobile. By 2012 they will be present in 20 countries.
We met George Kontos at the Mobile World Congress who told us about the company and its future plans.
CounterPath announced the launch of NomadicPBX, claimed to be the world’s first turnkey platform for enabling converged mobile and broadband SIP voice, messaging and presence services.
The application is a presence-based, fixed and mobile voice, and instant messaging/short message service (IM/SMS) technology mashup with a select set of enterprise-ready features.
According to the company, NomadicPBX gives wireless carriers and mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) a cost-effective way to launch enterprise fixed-mobile convergence (FMC) services.
It enables wireless operators and other service providers to extend their feature sets into small and medium enterprises, which currently account for one-third of all hosted VoIP deployments, according to a recent Infonetics Research survey.
“The NomadicPBX’s network-based features let operators push deeper into the business market, creating new revenue streams and differentiating themselves based on innovative services rather than price alone,” says the company.
Carrier customers that currently deploy CounterPath’s NCG platform and Bria client can use the NomadicPBX configuration to create services relevant to other market segments, too.
The application uses presence for status updates and real-time management of call and message delivery across a wide variety of endpoint types, from PCs to feature phones to smartphones, all from any vendor. This flexibility means enterprises can integrate standard mobile network services into their enterprise communications architecture by leveraging their existing devices.
Donovan Jones, President and CEO of CounterPath, said, “NomadicPBX is a game-changer that enables wireless carriers, MVNOs and other service providers to escape voice commoditization by offering a wide range of market-differentiating services that are an ideal fit for today’s increasingly mobile workforces.”
Apple reported financial results for its fiscal 2010 second quarter – its best non-holiday quarter ever. The company posted revenue of $13.50 billion and net quarterly profit of $3.07 billion ($3.33 per diluted share).
The revenues were up 49 percent and profits were up 90 percent.
Apple sold 2.94 million Macs during the quarter (33 percent unit increase over the year-ago quarter), 8.75 million iPhones (131 percent growth) and 10.89 million iPods (one percent decline).
Gross margin was 41.7 percent, up from 39.9 percent in the year-ago quarter. International sales accounted for 58 percent of the quarter’s revenue.
Steve Jobs said he was “thrilled” to report Apple’s best non-holiday quarter ever. He added that the company have several more “extraordinary products” in the pipeline for this year.
Peter Oppenheimer, Apple’s CFO, said that looking ahead to the third fiscal quarter of 2010, they expect revenue in the range of about $13.0 billion to $13.4 billion.
Set-Top Boxes sold into the up-and-coming Internet Protocol TV segment will ramp up in terms of shipments and revenue in the years to come, offering increasing competition to legacy products in the STB market, according to iSuppli.
In the recent report iSuppli says STB equipment sold into the IPTV market is projected to grow to 58 million units in 2014, up from 19.4 million in 2009. Revenue will rise to $6.2 billion, up from $2.9 billion in 2009.
For these IPTV STBs, which allow the delivery of television services over a high-speed digital network and provide guaranteed quality of service, the numbers translate into a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 25 percent for unit shipments and 16 percent for revenue.
All told, IPTV STBs accounted for 14.7 percent of total set-top box unit shipments in 2009, and are expected to make up 29.1 percent of shipments in 2014.
In order to fulfill the promise of exciting interactive applications held forth initially by the IPTV industry, iSuppli believes further innovation is needed to differentiate IPTV services from those offered by the cable and satellite providers.
In comparison, the legacy STB market consisting of the cable, satellite and terrestrial segments will end 2009 with unit shipments of 132 million. Unit shipments for this market are projected to reach 199 million in 2014, rising at a CAGR of 8.6 percent for the forecast period.
IPTV Players and their Crowded Playground
According to iSuppli, the principal difference between legacy STBs and their IPTV counterparts lies in the way the boxes receive information: IP STB equipment receives video content over a broadband pipe via Internet Protocol data packets, while legacy boxes receive an RF-modulated signal. Furthermore, IP boxes do not require a tuner and demodulator, which are requirements for legacy boxes.
With more than 60 vendors claiming to have an IPTV STB product, the IPTV equipment market remains highly fragmented. However, just 15 vendors supplied 92 percent of the market in 2009. Motorola Inc. was No. 1 with 32 percent market share, followed by Cisco Systems Inc. with a 14 percent share.
Among companies involved in supplying the platform software for IPTV boxes, Microsoft Corp. held sway with its Mediaroom middleware, accounting for 25 percent of the market with 4.8 million STBs in 2009. Microsoft had three times the share of its closest rival—French-based Thomson SA with its SmartVision software.
As in the PC industry, Microsoft is driving the technical requirements that will shape product offerings from silicon vendors and makers of STBs alike, iSuppli believes.
Next-generation media processors will also ramp up in 2010. Newcomer Broadcom Corp. is expected to lay siege to Sigma Designs with its BCM7405 processor—recently certified for Mediaroom deployments—ending the advantageous position of Sigma Designs as sole provider of Mediaroom-certified processors.
Nonetheless, Sigma Designs is expected to fire back, and its next-generation SMP8650 family of processors will benefit from the company’s incumbent position in many existing IP STB sockets.
TwinStrata debuts today with its vision for intelligent storage cloudsolutions.
Taking an innovative approach, the company is bringing to market cloud storage enablement software solutions to help mid-sized companies in a variety of industries address challenges related to protecting and managing the growth of business application data.
Operational Challenges of Data Management
Today’s IT data management teams are tasked with selecting solutions that maintain the integrity and availability of data, especially higher value data related to business critical applications. Storage-related solutions need to easily and quickly scale to accommodate future data growth and not require capital intensive upgrades when capacity limits are reached. They must support multiple data formats for all types of business applications. In addition, companies should understand the impact an application outage will have on each line-of-business or on the company as a whole in order to implement appropriate data recovery operations.
Cloud Technology Ecosystems
To help companies achieve business agility and efficiency, IT alignment and cost management, several ecosystems started by industry-leading vendors have emerged. EMC with its EMC Atmos Velocity Program and Amazon with its Amazon Web Services are each an example of an ecosystem of solution providers developing cloud enablement solutions that leverage their respective cloud services. These ecosystems will have a significant impact on storage cloud adoption.
Corporations using solutions from these ecosystems benefit from the cloud. They can now instantly respond to changing business requirements by taking advantage of an adaptable infrastructure and adding resources as needed. Storage cloud infrastructures eliminate lengthy change management cycles when bringing new storage infrastructure online and optimize IT administrative processes to drive efficiency and improve staff productivity.
"Cloud enablement solutions, like the one TwinStrata offers, will help accelerate corporate cloud storage adoption," said Terri McClure, a senior analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group. "Companies can realize the availability, security and performance characteristics of local storage, without the capital investment and overhead of housing and managing storage themselves."
"TwinStrata is working with customers around the world and with industry-leading global technology companies to define and develop intelligent storage cloud architectures and solutions," said TwinStrata CEO & Co-Founder Nicos Vekiarides.
"The EMC Velocity2 Atmos Partner Program demonstrates our commitment to deliver innovative storage solutions that address the growing needs of our partners seeking to leverage cloud infrastructure. We believe there is an opportunity and approach to cloud storage that delivers financial and functional benefits to both our Partners and the Customers they serve," said Mike Feinberg, Senior Vice President of EMC Cloud Infrastructure Group.
"By making our cloud infrastructure accessible and allowing easy API integration, we enable our partners to develop cloud enablement solutions to help customers realize business agility, drive IT operational efficiency, and improve cost controls. We are pleased to work with TwinStrata to embrace and deliver real-world business value to our joint customers, globally."
Intelligent Storage Cloud, Cloud Enablement Solutions
Intelligent storage clouds consist of storage-as-a-service offerings combined with intelligent cloud storage enablement solutions. Cloud storage enablement solutions address the primary concerns that users have expressed regarding enterprise IT adoption of cloud storage solutions and deliver the following features:
* Compute Anywhere™ application accessibility: on/off-premise, in the cloud
* Non-disruptive integration with business applications
* Support for all industry file systems and block-level access
* Intelligent caching architecture that delivers local performance
* Support for virtual and physical IT environments
* Ease of deployment, ability to manage in self-service manner via UI, CLI and API
* Local and cloud data copies, zero-footprint snapshots
* Encryption for security
* Bandwidth savings via caching, compression, deduplication
* Support for multiple cloud providers, with data mobility across providers
* Support for providers that offer SLAs for regulatory & compliance requirements
About TwinStrata
TwinStrata is a pioneer in the Cloud Storage Enablement (CSE) market with the industry’s first purpose-built architecture and software solution to enable Intelligent Storage Clouds (ISC). ISC deliver simple, affordable and secure storage solutions to enterprise environments. TwinStrata’s solutions address the business need for on-demand IT services, providing new levels of business agility, efficiency, IT alignment and cost management for protecting and managing the growth of business application data. For more information about TwinStrata, please visit www.twinstrata.com
Global IP Solutions announced the availability of high-definition and Super-wideband Voice as well as one-way Video Conferencing/Chat capabilities for iPad developers, powered by GIPS VideoEngine Mobile.
According to GIPS, its VideoEngine Mobile supplies iPad developers with “a simple to integrate, high-level software API that contains the complex video conferencing/video chat capabilities into applications running on Apple’s iPad operating system.”
As video access becomes available from Apple, GIPS VideoEngine will support two-way video chat/conferencing.
“With over 600,000 unit sales of the iPad to date, demand for this device is clearly continuing to grow,” said GIPS’ Chief Marketing Officer Joyce Kim.
“With the unique experience that a device like the iPad can deliver, it is imperative that the overall quality exceed all expectations and GIPS is proud to offer HD and Super HD voice and video for the iPad and other mobile devices.”
Roopam Jain, Frost & Sullivan analyst said, “GIPS technology is becoming increasingly significant with the growth in IP traffic as it offers HD voice and video communication capabilities that adjusts dynamically to available bandwidth on Wi-Fi or cellular networks,” said.
He added that the introduction of devices like the iPad will greatly increase wide scale voice and video communications beyond corporate boundaries.
GIPS mobile technology is already available on the iPad, Android, iPhone, Symbian and Windows Mobile operating systems.
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At the Mobile World Congress we met with Jan Hoffmann, CEO of Mobil Power Europe, the sole, worldwide representative of the DOQO battery charger.
He gave us a live demonstration of DOQO that allows you to safely and easily recharge the battery of your mobile phone or digital camera in a wink. The battery is charged for an average period of 15 to 20 minutes at a cost of just 1€/1£. The charging software guarantees that 95% of all mobile phone & camera batteries can be recharged with DOQO.
Antica, a networking company specialized in providing solutions tailored for telecommunications companies, was present at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
They were presenting SESS, PayBridge and SmartRouter, the products focused on increasing revenue for mobile operators, and developing models based on prepayment.
This year, their flagship product is Antica Convergent Policy Manager, that allow service providers to manage the traffic policies that are applied to subscribers and works with multi-vendor DPI devices, or acts as a PCRF when the network support a 3GPP PCC architecture.
At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona we talked to Li Wei, Deputy General manager at SIM Technology Group, a leading mobile handset and wireless communications module developer in China.
They design and develop multi-platform mobile communications terminal solutions ranging from 2.5G, 2.75G, 3G to 3.5G.
The subsidiary Shanghai Simcom turns out over 200 mobile handset solutions each year. It is ranked number 2 based on worldwide shipment on ABI recent research report.