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Latest Featured Articles » Europe's Love Affair with Real Time Communications Real time communications (RTC) should be a booming business in Europe, if market studies over the past few years are to be believed. It makes sense, since the fundamentals for videoconferencing technology have moved from dedicated systems and hardware to off-the-shelf apps and tablets while broadband rates continue downward. » Changing the Way We Work: Real-Time Communications Everywhere - And in Every Application Businesses and service providers are at an important intersection in their journey toward the future. They clearly need to move forward - and in new directions - to succeed. At the same time, it's important to remember where they came from. Sponsored By: GENBAND Muscle up your app for the Kandy Throw Down. To be the best developer, you have to fuel your app with the best APIs, the most reliable platforms, and the hottest features that users want now — voice, video, co-browsing, SMS, conferencing, and more. Enter Kandy. Kandy is a real-time communications solution that scales. Using the power of GENBAND’s communications tools, Kandy gives your app the edge it needs to compete – and win! From now until April 9, 2015, software developers have the opportunity to win $30,000 in prize for integrating the Kandy’s SDKs into their apps during the Kandy Throw Down. Both new and existing software solutions, including those with wearable or hardware components, will be accepted. One grand prize of $10,000 in cash, 10 runner-up prizes of $1,000, plus four $2,500 special prize categories in Most Addictive Kandy, Best Student-Made App, Best of Business App, and Popular Choice will be awarded to the best apps. Get more info and enter the Throw Down at kandy.challengepost.com. Good luck! » First WebRTC Client for Lync is Introduced by GENBAND We haven now been introduced to another GENBAND contribution to the world of WebRTC. On March 16, the company announced its Real-Time Communication (RTC) Client for Lync. This is seen as an innovative web-centric solution that enables a cost-effective combination of enterprise or service provider-based voice, video and collaboration with Lync. » Enterprise Security: Give Employees What's Desired, Lest Employees Get IT Elsewhere There have never been so many tools out there to get a job done as there are right now, it seems. Tools for mobile workers, tools for stationary office workers, tools for collaborative workers...the lineup of tools never seems to slow. But Telstra's Tom Homer recently took the stage at Cloud Expo Europe in London to offer up some grim advice: give the employees what's desired in terms of tools, or the employees will take matters into hand, with potentially less-than-desirable results. » MaskedChat Allows Random, Anonymous Video Roulettes ChatRoulette, the video-chat blind date service that allows people to randomly start conversations with others around the world, is getting some competition. However, there's a twist: the upstart offering allows users to hide themselves using masks. » Is GMeet Google's Attempt at Teleconferencing? Google has already made some noteworthy strides in terms of helping to get users to connect to one another regardless of location. Already plenty of users turn to Google Docs to pass documents back and forth, and several other tools also come into play. But Google, which had quite the hand in developing Web-based real time communications (WebRTC) to begin with, looks to be expanding its focus thanks to what may be a new teleconferencing system currently being called GMeet. Top Stories » New Twilio Video System Means Easily-Added Video For Online Apps » GENBAND Smart Office Gives NetFortris' Cloud UC a Leg Up » UChicago Medicine Improves Patient Satisfaction with Real-Time Communications » WebRTC World Gives Voice4Net's WebRTC-Based Contact Center Solution its Product of the Year Award Featured Resources » Three Ways to Tame the Wild West of WebRTC » Journey Management in the Contact Center » An Innovative Approach to Simplifying the Transition to IP Featured Channels » Next Generation Digital Services » Real Time Communications » WebRTC Solutions Advertise With Us Contact us Become a WebRTC columnist! Become a WebRTC World columnist! Want to contribute your thought leadership and expertise around this exciting new collaboration technology to a rapidly growing audience? Become a writer, blogger or columnist for the WebRTC World and this newsletter. Contact Erik Linask, Group Editorial Director, at elinask@tmcnet.com for details.

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