What is Google Voice?

Google Voice is the Internet based phone forwarding service by Google. It was previously known as GrandCentral. Google Voice is free except for international calls.
Google Voice gives you a separate phone number which you can give out as if it is your regular phone number. You can then change your settings to have calls forward to any of your phones.
You can forward to one group of phones during the day and another at night. You can have calls from certain numbers forward differently than calls to other numbers. You can block spamming callers and send some calls straight to voice mail.
You can send yourself an SMS message or an email whenever you get a voice mail message, and you can check your voice mail from the Web or from your phone.
Unfortunetely, Google Voice is limited to users within the USA.
Let's wait a bit more and hopefully, soon, other countries will also be able to use this new communication technology!

Use Google Voice On Your Mobile Phone

Google Voice gives you one phone number for all your phones, voicemail as easy as email, and many calling features for free.

Google Wave Works On The iPhone

Google Wave, the search giant’s latest experiment in post-email communications, is hardly out the gate, with some of the first 100,000 private beta testers still waiting for their invites. But Google Wave already has a few secrets. The one that surprised me is that even though not that many people can use it yet, Google Wave already works on the iPhone.

There are two ways to get Google Wave to work on your iPhone. The first way is to simply go to wave.google.com in mobile Safari on your iPhone. It warns you that you are not using a browser supported during the preview, but if you click through, it works pretty well. The site has obviously been optimized for Webkit-based browsers like the one on the iPhone and Google’s own Android phones. You can select different conversation “waves” (or threads) and contacts, or dive into a specific wave.

But here is where it gets interesting. In addition to the Web app via the mobile Safari browser, you can get rid of the Safari wrapper altogether. Just like with any Web page on the iPhone, you can save a bookmark on your Home screen, and it creates a little icon which launches mobile Safari to that page. When you save the Wave bookmark to your Home screen, however, something different happens. You go to Wave, but without the Safari wrapper which allows you to navigate to another page or search the Web. Instead, it looks more like a regular app and there is no way to navigate away from it. Everything else works the same as in the mobile browser version.

At least that is what it does for me and one of our readers, Rafael Vargas, who brought it to my attention. For others, like TechCrunch writer MG Siegler, the icon does in fact launch the Safari version. So this might be a bug, or maybe MG is just blessed. Either way, the Google Wave team is obviously putting effort into making Wave work in mobile browsers.

And if what I’m seeing is not a bug, it suggests a different approach to making mobile apps on the iPhone. They become customized versions of the mobile Website which don’t have to go through Apple’s tortuous app approval process. Given the tensions between the two companies following the rejection of some Google apps for the iPhone (Voice and Latitude), doing an end run around the App Store might not be a bad idea.

The screenshot above shows what Google Wave looks like when launched from the icon on the Home screen. Below is what it looks like from within Safari. See the gray bar at the top and bottom with navigation options? Update: Perhaps Google is using this feature for creating full-screen Web apps. Update 2: Google confirms that is indeed the case. When you bookmark Wave it launches in “app mode,” which is an existing option for developers on the iPhone.

What is Google Wave?

Google Wave is a project announced by Google at the Google I/O conference on May 28, 2009 [see above video] It is a web application and computing platform designed to bring together e-mail, instant messaging, wiki, and social networking, with a strong collaborative focus, mixed with spellchecker and translator extensions, which are able to work in concert, in real-time.

About Google Wave:
Google Wave is a new model for communication and collaboration on the web, coming later this year.
Here’s a preview of just some of the aspects of this new tool.




What is a wave?
A wave is equal parts conversation and document. People can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more.

A wave is shared. Any participant can reply anywhere in the message, edit the content and add participants at any point in the process. Then playback lets anyone rewind the wave to see who said what and when.

A wave is live. With live transmission as you type, participants on a wave can have faster conversations, see edits and interact with extensions in real-time.

Great Summary of Google Wave

How to Download Skype to a BlackBerry

Since its launch in 2003, Skype has fast become the application of choice for instant messaging and voice over IP. With 405 million users worldwide, it's already changed how people communicate. With the launch of Skype lite, it's taken the application to our mobile phones, and in May 2009 it was supposed to become available for the Blackberry. However, it doesnt seem to be easy to download it in some countries. Therefore, there are two applications that you can use that makes your Blackberry compatible with Skype and they're called iSkoot and Web Messenger.

INSTRUCTIONS:

Step 1: Connect to the Internet on your Blackberry either through Wi-Fi or on your phone. Go to iSkoot.com and click on "Download now." This will take you to the registration page. You will need to put in the make and model of your phone and relevant information, such as your phone number, Skype name and country. You will then be given a choice to download iSkoot to your phone via e-mail or sms text or onto your computer. If you download it onto your computer, you will need to install it on your Blackberry either via Bluetooth, infrared or through a data cable.

Step 2: Once you download iSkoot, you can login to your Skype account using your login id and password and you will need to put in your mobile phone number. Once you've done this, your Skype contacts should come up on your screen just as it would on your computer. You will be charged air time and data charges for making Skype calls or instant messaging. If you use Skype to call regular phones rather than a Skype Buddy, then you will also need SkypeOut minutes.

Step 3: Download Web Messenger by going to Webmessenger.com. You can download the Web Messenger application in much the same way that you can download iSkoot. You will have to register, giving your name, e-mail address, phone number and make of the phone. The only big difference is that you will also need to download the WebMessenger Mobile for Skype desktop plug-in on the same machine that you are running your Skype application. The big advantage of Web Messenger is that it allows you to work with AOL, Google, Yahoo, MSN messenger as well as Skype ,and best of all, it's all free. Again, you will be charged for data time and will need SkypeOut credit if you intend to call non-Skype phones.

Step 4: Download Skype to your Blackberry. As of early May 2009, Skype was still not available for the Blackberry, but it is supposed to be released soon. Once it is, you can just go to Skype.com, click on download and on the far righthand side there will be a link for BlackBerry. Click on this and download it.

V2oIP on T-Engine

Video & Voice over Internet Protocol on T-Engine is ready to deploy solution in ubiquitous devices those require voice communication functionality. Video support is under development and shall be released shortly. This Framework provides SUA Toolkit, RTP/RTCP Toolkit & CODEC on T-Engine to develop innovative products for ubiquitous and IP telephony domain. It can be utilized to develop components like Set top box, media Gateways, Soft-phones, Soft-switches, Interactive voice response & Push to Talk solutions.

SUA Toolkit is a powerful and versatile development toolkit designed to fulfill the development requirements of SIP User Agent based systems. This complies with the IETF SIP specifications RFC-3261. The Toolkit is a high performance SIP over T-Engine and provides API layers for optimal call control mechanism.

RTP/RTCP (Real-Time Transport Protocol/Real-Time Transport Control Protocol) Toolkit over T-Engine is designed to fulfill the requirements of media transmission over Internet Protocol. The Toolkit provides media transport functionalities and can be seamlessly integrated with small embedded platforms to densely populated processing environments. It can be used with SIP, H323 or other protocols to transport audio, video and real time text data over network. This Toolkit is in compliance with IETF RFC-1889.