Amir Zmora, Author at The New Dial Tone

Apple Replaced AT&T on the Dow Jones

September 8, 2015 / in Markets & People, Mobile / Add Comment

One symbolic change that happened on March 2015 is the replacement of AT&T by Apple in the DOW Jones Industrial Average leaving Verizon as the only operator represented in the Dow Jones index. This is a symbolic change that reflects the long-term change we see in communications. The shiny days of the operators are history. Even the stock market understands change has come.

Best of Breed WebRTC Software Components

September 1, 2015 / in VoIP / 2 Comments

The optimal goal for WebRTC should be that Web developers will be able to easily add WebRTC features to their applications. Throw in some media services as they see fit and not need to worry too much for client side WebRTC API compatibility. Reality is that for the common Web developer, we are not really there yet.

The WebRTC API Compatibility Challenge

August 17, 2015 / in WebRTC Standards / Add Comment

Interoperability and API compatibility are very important if we want web applications to work regardless of the browser or WebRTC implementation they are using.
Changes need to be introduced as the standard evolves but backwards compatibility must be taken well into consideration else developers and users will have bad experience as applications break.

“Advanced Messaging “Announced By T-Mobile. So What!

August 11, 2015 / in Markets & People / Add Comment

Reading the announcement made me wonder, are they ignoring reality, dreaming or just stuck in the past? If this was 2005 we might have called it advanced but now in 2015 I find it hard to define the released features advanced. A more precise description would be – on the journey to in-par but not quite there. This comes following an earlier VoLTE release.

Chromium Eavesdropping Coming to You on Your Next App Install

August 3, 2015 / in VoIP / Add Comment

It sounds pretty useful (to some). You say “OK Google” and search by voice. For “OK Google” to be picked up by the browser it actually needs to constantly listen to what is going on in the room. Google promises they don’t really listen to what’s going on in your room and that they don’t really do anything with this information. They say you can trust them. Should you? Your choice.

The Drift from Closed Services to PaaS Continues

July 13, 2015 / in Markets & People, VoIP / Add Comment

Unify announced the availability of APIs for their Circuit collaboration platform opening it for the general public of developers. This is not the first time we see closed WebRTC based collaboration platforms in the cloud open up for developers. What drives companies to make this kind of shift and does it pay off? UC vendors need to reinvent themselves, abandon the term UC