Neowin News Feed for: Webrtc

Firefox 22 to include OdinMonkey, cookie blocking delayed & more

Tim Schiesser — Sat, 18 May 2013 05:47:45 +0100

Mozilla are readying a number of changes for Firefox 22, including fully enabled WebRTC, support for HiDPI displays in Windows, and OdinMonkey for gaming, while cookie blocking has been postponed Read more...

Mozilla working on way to make Firefox phone calls sans plugin

John Callaham — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 14:34:00 +0000

Mozilla has announced plans to work with AT&T and Ericsson to work on a way for Firefox web browsers to make phone calls without the use of a plugin via the WebRTC standard. Read more...

Microsoft's web browser chat standard challenged by Google and Mozilla

John Callaham — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 21:24:10 +0000

Google has announced users of the beta version of its Chrome web browser can now 'talk" to users of a beta of Mozilla's Firefox browser via the WebRTC standard, challenging Microsoft's own standard. Read more...

Microsoft releases demo of its proposed web audio-video chat standard

John Callaham — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 21:29:57 +0000

Microsoft has now released a "working prototype" of a browser-based audio-video chat that uses the company's proposed CU-RTC-Web standard, which is competing with WebRTC. Read more...

Microsoft and Google differ on WebRTC API

John Callaham — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 16:54:41 +0100

Microsoft has submitted a proposal for its own version of the WebRTC API, which could be used for a web-based version of Skype. However, there is another version that's championed by Google. Read more...

Microsoft could use WebRTC for upcoming Skype web app

John Callaham — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 16:55:01 +0100

A recent job listing from Microsoft has revealed that the company could use WebRTC for the upcoming web-based version of Skype, which would allow it to be used without plug-in software. Read more...