Location is a Tool NOT Application

5 02 2009

I’ve always believed the concept of location is important to an application, but it does not really define an application. Continuing that line of thought, I think many companies who join the ‘LBS is a killer Application’ idealogy have it completely wrong.

Location is NOT going to be successful as an Application. It is going to be super successful as a tool. Let me justify my stand.

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STUN stack for Android SDK 1.0r1

17 11 2008

Hola,

continuing the “season of giving” for Google’s Android, HSC has also ported the popular java stun stack, JSTUN for the android platform. Download it here

 



Updated Sip stack and UA for Android SDK 1.0r1

17 11 2008

Folks, my company just released an updated version of the SIP stack and UA (MJSIP) ported for the latest SDK 1.0r1. This is the same SDK that G1 uses. This is an update to this post.

The new SDK changes several things in the UI and well as some APIs. Kudos to the team lead Nitin Khanna (first.last at hsc.com) for continuing the commitment to android. 

Grab a copy of the latest version from here.

 



The colors of Google Chrome: A user review

3 09 2008

So the rumors of many years ago were true. Google finally did release a browser. Naturally, I downloaded it and took it for a test drive. Here is the short of it.

Version reviewed:

Google may be rolling out updates regularly (For example, I suddenly see evident popup blocking), so to put it in context, this is the version I am reviewing

 

Installation:

The installer is just around 470K to download, but of course that is the ‘pre-installer’. Once you grab the pre-installer, it downloads the rest of the browser from the net. As of now, in its first release, focus seems to be on super simplicity. It does not even ask you where to install it. I am OK with that, but it really does choose a weird location to install it (in Documents and Settings!)

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Mjsip SIP stack port for Google Android released

2 04 2008

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Update: Apr 29 2008: UA+Stack code released here

Hey folks, HSC released the android ported mjsip stack source code.

Grab it from here. Look for the attachment to the post titled “Ported GNU Mjsip stack for Google Android”

If you see a “PDF” icon under that post, don’t worry, its actually a ZIP with source in it. Our website folks will fix that annoyance soon.

Note that this is a “developer’s release”. It will allow you to start building applications using the mjsip stack on android. It’s not an “automatic solution for long distance calling” (as some blogs reported it) – it is a tool for developers within you to make such applications.

We also have a working SIP UA we ported on top of this stack (which we called ‘SIPDroid’ – no points for being imaginative here). We are yet to release that port – will do so in a short while.

Note that this is just a SIP stack. There is no RTP included. We did some initial experiments with porting open source RTP stacks – seems very simple. We may just do it later, or you do it and add to this effort :-)