Google’s Chrome Browser Now Contains A Disruptive New Communications Framework
After months of beta testing, Google today quietly released a new version of Chrome that contains WebRTC, a collection of real-time communications protocols that includes everything you need to turn the browser into a high-end communications system. If other browser vendors follow suit and adopt WebRTC, any device with a web browser will be able to make voice and video calls, as well as easily share data. Unlike the often fuzzy voice quality of today’s mobile phones, browser-based calls will be crystal clear thanks to built-in high-definition audio codecs. This could lead to a whole new generation of communications applications, as every business process that once involved someone picking up a phone and making a call is transformed into a click. It could also accelerate the move to Internet-based calling and away from the public switched telephone network, as people increasingly connect with each other by exchanging online presence information, rather than by exchanging phone numbers. A...