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Latest Featured Articles » Meet Ito, the WebRTC Bot for Slack Digital assistants have gotten rather popular-and what started with Siri for iPhone has morphed into pop-culture iterations like Dom, the Domino's Pizza ordering bot. Another bot is now dovetailing with the popular chat application Slack, to add real-time communication (RTC) voice and video features to its text-based communications platform. » Google Translate Preps Instant Speech-to-Text Translation Google is prepping an update for its Google Translate mobile app that can potentially turn the utility into an indispensible tool for globetrotters, by incorporating real-time language speech-to-text translations. » Seven Dwarves Take Note: How Real Time Communications Will Aid Mining One of science fiction's greatest concepts is that of resource gathering in the future. Between mining asteroids-some of which, by some reports, actually contain sufficient iron ore to remake every car manufactured on the face of the Earth ever-and seeking nodules on the ocean floor that are often packed with minerals, mining in inhospitable territory is a big deal in the field. But the how of such efforts has often eluded us, at least, until the concept of real time communications got involved. » Business Supplying Personal Customer Experiences Thanks to Digital Commerce It hasn't even been a week since we last heard about Cisco's advice to retailers to perk up the relevance if said retailers desired a shot at a bigger piece of the customer pie, and now we've got not only a word of confirmation but a report suggesting that this is the route retailers are already going. The report comes from Accenture Interactive, and it spells out how businesses are focusing efforts on being particularly relevant to customers in order to land more business. » Bringing An Expert Eye to Your WebRTC Implementation Building it into a website could allow a retailer (like Toy Genius, as one real-world example) to interact with and guide online visitors as they browse and buy products. It could also enable a university to more easily connect with potential students and their parents during and after the admissions process, or aid any organization to do recruitment via real-time video capabilities. » Intel Enhances Focus on WebRTC This week, Intel released the second version of the Intel Collaboration Suite for WebRTC (Intel CS for WebRTC). Intel CS for WebRTC, initially launched in June last year, offers software and service developers a kit with both server- and client-side tools for designing browser-based video conferencing capabilities. Top Stories » Tips for MDM in the Enterprise » Logitech Lifesize Broadens Presence with New Releases » Sequans and Ecrio Partner for Integrated VoLTE Solution » Mozilla Updates Firefox Hello » 3CX Phone System 12.5 Boasts WebRTC Edge Featured Resources » Are you Ready for 2020? » Mobile Test Automation Best Practices » 5 Things Every Workplace Should Consider As They Cope With Enterprise Mobility » Whats New in Contact Center in 2015 and Why it Matters Featured Channels » IP Communications » Conference Call Services » Workforce Optimization 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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