April 27th, 2013

Disrupt NY 2013 Hackathon Team Wants To Build A WebRTC-Based Pandora For Exercise

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The Disrupt NY 2013 Hackathon has been underway for a few hours now and we’re already seeing a bunch of cool projects. Team Geem is building what it calls a “Pandora for Exercise.” The service, which will hopefully be ready in time to be demoed tomorrow, will create exercise programs that are tailored for the individual user. The usual exercise DVDs, Geem believes, are just too… → Read More

April 24th, 2013

TokBox Brings WebRTC To The Cloud, Enables Multi-Party Video Chats & SIP Interop

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Telefonica’s TokBox announced a huge upgrade to its OpenTok on WebRTC service today. TokBox’s new cloud-based Mantis media distribution framework is designed to overcome some of WebRTC’s limits with regard to video distribution. By default, WebRTC is a peer-to-peer platform, but that makes it hard to scale video chats beyond two participants. With Mantis, TokBox essentially puts… → Read More

November 5th, 2012

TokBox’s New OpenTok For WebRTC Lets Developers Add Cross-Platform Video Chats To Their iOS And Web Apps

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TokBox, the San Francisco-based WebRTC and video chat company recently acquired by Spain’s Telefónica Digital, announced that it has launched what it calls the “first platform to power WebRTC video chat across browsers and iOS devices.” TokBox’s OpenTok platform allows developers to integrate video chat into their apps, and thanks to today’s release of OpenTok for WebRTC, developers will now be… → Read More