Can you imagine what the reviews would be like if the focus on low resolution or reduced size video would have been on day 1? Is there another reason for not allowing a heavy bandwidth Flash interface to be used on the iPad? Think what a YouTube video at 20fps with 10kb per image or frame that normally delivers 200kb per sec with lots of buffer delays will mean when you put it onto the iPad. Doubling the size of the video means height and width and so that is actually a multiple of 4 times if enlarged to a bigger screen on the iPad unless you provide low resolution.

It was an extremely clever stroke of marketing why Apple delayed the 3G version launch. They wanted to get it out and be seen with the best possible Wi-Fi available before it comes out with a higher cost and lower quality video experience. How many of the WSJ and New York Times executives actually took the time to ask what the quality of their videos on H.264 would look like on the average SF or NY 3G bottleneck?

Eplixo is now on Facebook

We are delighted to say that we have recently completed the Eplixo facebook application and you can see it in action and use the Video Chat Party in facebook to send invitations to your friends who are currently online.

Why not hold a party of 6 in video chat discussing the content of your facebook pages?

Don’t forget to let your friends know Eplixo is on facebook

Would you like to Video Chat anywhere in the world for $0.25c per hour?

Eplixo wants to save you up to 80% on roaming charges and let you Video Chat with up to 6 people on your mobile phone, netbook or laptop.

Why are you still paying roaming rates or even local mobile call charges?

PC or laptop Video Chat
25 times a month at no cost

Nothing to download. Simply register, click the confirmation email and login to start chatting with your friends immediately. It takes about 1 minute to register and begin video chatting.

Your friends receive an email and they click on the link to join your video chat party. Even if you don’t have a web cam you can still speak with up to six people anywhere around the world at no cost.

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There is an avenue that is likely to be potentially lucrative if they looked outside the box a little more. For instance the iPhone has pretty much created a commodity of the mobile carrier service as all the iPhone applications are acquired by customers of Apple, not AT&T or other carriers who provide the phones.

There is also a major problem facing mobile carriers who are seeing ARPU eroding to the likes of Apple and data services and this is why they too are trying (hopelessly) to create their own proprietary application stores.

Now if the local providers work with the likes of News International and other local news providers they could perhaps undertake a revenue share with the carriers for access to premium services that are provided through the carriers and not through the likes of Google.

Three years for desktop PCs to disappear whoa!!!

There is no denying the impact VoIP has had on the explosion of advanced communications and its role in providing seamless, hassle-free remote access. Many work places have implemented enhanced, formal telecommuting policies and are encouraging employees to take advantage of them. A central part of this equation is unified communications.

As the world gets flatter and the demand to work remotely increases, we can expect to see a number of trends on the rise including more businesses turning to SIP Trunking and dramatic increases in hosted unified communication deployments.

In the not too distant future, we can expect almost all businesses to offer telecommuting options, often supported by hosted unified communications tools and services, just as today they provide employees computers and internet access.