One trend that brought you to Las Vegas was the gradual arrival of applications and services to TVs. Skype was the media of all, and at CES 2010 will be announced in style when the solution of high definition video calls would be available on TVs from LG and Panasonic.

One of the leading brands in the world of televisions, Samsung has not wanted to stay back and announced that it has reached an agreement with Skype to bring this functionality to their LED models 7000 and 8000. The first TVs with this system that allows voice and video calls via the TV will be integrated into the models go on sale today in Korea.

In the world we have to wait a few months, just when LEDs hit the market prepared for the three dimensions and will mark the beginning of the maelstrom of new models of almost all major brands.

To exploit this new application, while encouraging manufacturers to incorporate cameras integrated into the frames of TV sets, will be placed in the same different models of compatible webcams, including Samsung TV Freetalk that may be purchased soon.

The recent acquisition by Google of Gizmo5, a developer of software that enables Internet-based calls on mobile phones and computers, based on open standards (SIP), does nothing but give importance to this line of work.

Outside the search engine company have known that Telefonica has been done with Jajah, a leading provider of VoIP, and BT with the software developer Ribbit, showing that all are working on making voice calls in an application, and it seems certain that the other operators will this step inevitable.

Google Voice currently has 1.4 million users, a ridiculous figure when compared to Skype’s 500 million worldwide, a difference in part due to a significant difference between the two services: Google Voice needs to have an associated phone by Carrier account for performance.

Google Voice, is preparing something importanteAquí is Gizmo5 comes into play, as it will allow the company to make Google Voice search in a service like Skype to operate without operators involved, and let them communicate from the PC or the phone mobile internet.

Google also committed to decorate the service with features that they can hardly be offered by a traditional form of communication, such as the integration of network contacts, a mailbox for calls, transcribing them and reading texts. And following the ideas of work of the company, trying to get everything you can end up in the cloud.
The rates of the operators are with Google Voice

The changes can not happen from one day to another, but it strikes me that you can begin to end the limitations of flat rates is that in the U.S. and is already talking about the rate of 500 minutes from T-Mobile and the Nexus One: What would happen if at the end of those minutes go to run Google Voice and non-tariff operator other communications?.

Google Voice, is preparing something importanteLa response does not have, and what we said do not think that poses a viable alternative to conventional calls, but the truth is that there are people who are making calls from your mobile phone and the combination Gizmo5 Google Voice in the U.S., using a phone from an operator only to validate the service.

It seems clear that any move in this direction that Google will continue to swell his list of “friends”, but this list is already an interesting topic for another article.

And the founders of the invention now want to be back with the company. And it appears that eBay does not see it all clear to continue to pay, has been doomed to a demand from Jolt for misuse of their technology. While the trial is resolved, the owner of Skype is now working at top speed in the reconstruction of the architecture of the program before it reaches the date of a trial, held under current conditions, the balance inclined to the creators of the service messaging.

The timing of the lawsuit will be in mid-2010, and some people seem very unlikely that the current owners of Skype may have made to the duties then. The more cautious voices argue the matter in complete breakdown: proper adaptation of this service it seems that by creating a new one from scratch rather than reprogram the existing one. After all, the software and the management of Skype is based on a code that is now owned by Jolt.

At this time, the consequences of the disappearance of Skype as a service as we know it (including its image and the user base) would amount to millions of dollars, whereas the number of Internet users who use this program exceeds 480 million, amount that even the folds of a service as popular as Facebook. But the corporate soap opera has only just begun