The Spanish carrier group Telefónica is big on WebRTC, the technology that allows for plugin-free in-browser voice and video calls, among other things – it uses it for the in-browser Skype… Read more »
Kim Dotcom’s Mega has launched a public beta of its MegaChat end-to-end encrypted audio and video chat service, which it claims will offer a more secure alternative to Skype. The in-browser… Read more »
Got a Chromebook and want to have a video chat with a Facebook friend? You don’t need to download or install any plug-ins, now that Facebook video supports WebRTC. Instead, you… Read more »
Mozilla has released Firefox 35, which brings with it the enhancements to the Firefox Hello video-calling feature that I wrote about when they were in beta. Firefox 35 also introduces a… Read more »
Firefox Hello, the WebRTC-based video-calling feature that Mozilla and partner Telefónica revealed as a beta feature in October, hit the mainstream — sort of — with the full release of Firefox… Read more »
The free service is currently available on iOS, Android and OS X, though an in-browser version will arrive soon. It’s been under development for two years and has a very credible… Read more »
WebRTC is clearly gaining impressive momentum, as illustrated today by separate announcements from Microsoft and Temasys. The technology still faces big hurdles, but businesses and developers should be considering how they… Read more »
The firm announced its Skylink platform at AWS re:Invent. As it’s entirely built on the Amazon Web Services stack, the firm claims Skylink will work particularly well for startups that also… Read more »
Users of the Firefox 34 beta will be able to have anonymous, WebRTC-based voice and video chats from the browser itself, with no need to install an add-on or plugin, or… Read more »
Firefox is now supporting H.264 for web-based video chat, thanks to a binary component provided by Cisco — but H.264 web video streams still can’t be played natively in the browser. Read more »