Is Big Brother Listening in on You? - WebRTC World

Latest Featured Articles » Is Big Brother Listening in on You? Whatever your personal opinions about the morality of Edward Snowden's actions, his whistleblowing has monumentally shifted what the public knows about government surveillance in and by the United States. Parsing through the windfall of information is increasingly difficult. We know the U.S. government, through the NSA, is monitoring our communications, but modern day communications networks are complex behemoths constituted of a wide variety of technologies. Even a "phone call" is no longer a simple concept in the face of VoIP and mobile technology. Here's what the leaked documents tell us about what and how the NSA is collecting information across these different technologies. » Is Google Inadvertently Supporting SBCs? For Internet purists, the goal of end-to-end is primary to their architecture models. Trapezoids are silly, since they should just be one of the look-up tables and not a controlling device in the middle. Also, DNS has proven itself to be a scalable system, so why waste your time with a session border controller when catch and release has proven successful? » Wheelings & Dealings: Snapchat Acquires WebRTC Company AddLive For millions of Snapchat users, something changed last week, and over the weekend with the photo sharing application. The design and layout were updated, but there is also a new function that most social networking applications turn to as the missing link: messaging. The company put the "chat" in "Snapchat" last week by introducing a private messaging feature and video chat service - and it turns out, WebRTC was behind the move. » Comings & Goings: Paul Yantus Joins Weemo as VP of Marketing Weemo, a provider of real-time voice and video communication and collaboration solutions, sets out to enable video collaboration for everyone, on every platform, on every device. It's one of the forerunners in WebRTC, the HTML5 technology making peer-to-peer real-time communication in a browser possible. The company recently brought on Paul Yantus as vice president of marketing as the company prepares to launch free video calling and video conferencing for Zimbra, a provider of a unified communications software platform. Top Stories » OnSIP Releases WebRTC Platform » Wheelings & Dealings: Ooploo.com Joins Hatchbrands Ventures Portfolio, a Subsidiary of iBrands » The Firefox Facelift » WebRTC Isn't Just Integral to Business, but is the Business: Q&A with David Alozie Featured Resources » How Live Video Assistance Brings In-store Experience and Results to your Ecommerce Channel » Making the Right Call: Key Factors to Consider When Choosing a Contact Center Vendor » Replacing an Aging PBX Infrastructure: The Competitive Advantage and Cost Savings of a Cloud Phone System Featured Channels » Contact Center Transformation » IP Communications » Real Time Communications 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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