{"id":6173,"date":"2007-12-13T10:08:40","date_gmt":"2007-12-13T10:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/google-blackberry-and-skype-news.html"},"modified":"2007-12-13T10:08:40","modified_gmt":"2007-12-13T10:08:40","slug":"google-blackberry-and-skype-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/google\/google-blackberry-and-skype-news.html","title":{"rendered":"Google, Blackberry and Skype News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"3\" align=\"left\" vspace=\"3\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/uploads\/brady-bunch.jpg\" \/>Two things worth noting this morning have to do with mobility and video. First off, Google Calendar now syncs with Blackberrys. This is big news, allowing corporations to slowly wean themselves off of Microsoft software if they so choose. As Mashable <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2007\/12\/13\/google-calendar-blackberry-love\/\"><font color=\"#800080\">reports<\/font><\/a>, this comes a few days after Google announced a mobile application suite for RIM&rsquo;s wireless handheld device.<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">In other news, David Meyer <a href=\"http:\/\/community.zdnet.co.uk\/blog\/0,1000000567,10006740o-2000331761b,00.htm\"><font color=\"#800080\">reports<\/font><\/a> that Skype will soon be allowing multi-party videoconferencing otherwise known as Brady Bunch calling or video.<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">You may recall I <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/skype\/skype-pro-the-ultimate-european-voip-bundle.html\"><font color=\"#800080\">asked<\/font><\/a> Skype execs about this feature back in February of this year. Here is an excerpt:<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\" style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\">\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">I then asked about multiparty videoconferencing which is sometimes referred to as <a href=\"http:\/\/content.answers.com\/main\/content\/wp\/en\/thumb\/d\/d9\/250px-Bradybunchdvdseason4.jpg\"><font color=\"#800080\">Brady Bunch calling<\/font><\/a>. The point is being able to display multiple video windows simultaneously. The response was that only tech savvy users have asked for this feature and the typical application where grandma wants to see the kids does not lend itself to such functionality. Besides I was told a third party application did exist to allow this capability but it just didn&rsquo;t take off.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">As a tech savvy user, I am glad the company has chosen to add this feature as it is useful for corporations. One wonders however if you need a multicore CPU to allow <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/voip\/skype-high-quality-video.html\"><font color=\"#800080\">high quality Skype video<\/font><\/a> conversations, just what sort of monster machine will you need to have multiparty videoconferencing?<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two things worth noting this morning have to do with mobility and video. First off, Google Calendar now syncs with Blackberrys. This is big news, allowing corporations to slowly wean themselves off of Microsoft software if they so choose. As Mashable reports, this comes a few days after Google announced a mobile application suite for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,163,199,188,203,190,191],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6173"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}