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Google Chrome To Have Real-Time Communications

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the i-prefer-fake-time dept.

kai_hiwatari writes "Last month, Google released an open-source project called WebRTC which aims to enables Real-Time Communications capabilities in the web browsers through simple JavaScript APIs. Now, they have taken the first step towards having WebRTC built into Chrome. With WebRTC, developers will be able to build voice and video applications using nothing more than HTML and JavaScript. This is a powerful technology which can challenge services like Skype."

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  1. Re:The future.... by drb226 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "We noticed that your face was turned away during our advertisement. Let us play that again for you..."

  2. Re:Why in Chrome? by gstoddart · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I just can't wait for the cloud bubble to burst so we can go back to having traditional software again.

    I just can't wait for the web bubble to burst so we can go back to having traditional software again.

    The world has never really been the same since we developed this "everything is a web page" model. In a lot of ways, I don't find web-pages to actually be a good replacement for a traditional applications; the interface usability has greatly suffered.

    (Yes, there are still some things which don't run as web pages ... who knows, maybe we'll get good old-fashioned native clients pulling in data from the cloud, and there will be unicorns and bunnies and all will be good.)

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  3. Spy technology! by vlm · · Score: 5, Insightful

    With WebRTC, developers will be able to build voice and video applications using nothing more than HTML and JavaScript. This is a powerful technology which can ...

    ... implement some truly awesome spy technology. Implemented both by site owners and site hackers.

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  4. Re:The future.... by Qatz · · Score: 1, Insightful

    If so many a Indian salesmen will be video bombed with penis's.