Calling from Your Browser Coming to Firefox

CommanderFrank

CommanderFrank

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The Mobile World Congress is being held in Barcelona, Spain all of this upcoming week, loaded with big announcements, demonstrations and concepts of what you can expect coming up next year in the world of mobile technology. Mozilla is getting the jump on all the hype and has announced a partnership with AT&T and Ericsson to bring plugin-free calls straight from your Firefox browser.

This demonstration shows how the Web browser can perform many functions usually confined to a mobile device such as voice and video calls and SMS and MMS texting.
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Now if it only did the dishes , make dinner, vacuum and so on that would be impressive :) .
 
caddys83 said:
Free? AT&T? Wut? How does this make AT&T money?
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Basically, if you already have an ATT number/service, this will let you access all your stuff (ie make calls from, receive calls to, SMS, address book, voicemail etc..) from Firefox. This is a demonstration of an open API that lets telephony services connect via browsers; something to support certainly. More VOIP support is great and its nice to see some OPEN (W3C) standards being used by ATT , instead of them trying to restrict or require something proprietary. This is how telephony should be competing "Hey, our backend is compliant with this open thing that will let you make your calling from Firefox, securely! Sign up with us!".

Though I'd really like to see Mozilla working with VOIP more (say, putting together a SIP and XMPP compliant competitor for Google Voice, open source and privacy respectful, in a user friendly package.) but this is certainly a good move by both mozilla, and even ATT
 
All this really takes is HTML5 compatibility, an integrated cam/mic, back-end code wrapped into an app ..... all brought together through a central database

frankly, I'm amazed this hasn't happened already
 
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