Web apps more easily span different computing systems-not just Windows and Mac OS X, but also a profusion of smartphones. Google is a prominent advocate of the idea of Web-based applications and the cloud computing approach it enables. In other words, anyone could build a rival to services, such as Skype, with just a Web application. If Google and allies succeed in establishing the technology and building support into multiple browsers, that would mean anybody building a Web site or Web application could draw upon the communications technology. ![]() ![]() In an introductory blog post, Google said it released the technology as open-source, royalty-free software and pledged to work with other browser makers Mozilla and Opera on the real-time chat project. ![]() Rather, it hopes WebRTC will become an incarnation of a nascent Web standard for videoconferencing and peer-to-peer communications and for the necessary underlying network communication protocols. Gmail chat is getting more important as Google's VoIP (voice over Internet Protocol) efforts mature and integrate with the Google Voice service.īut Google has higher hopes that WebRTC will be used well beyond Gmail. The obvious beneficiary for the project is Gmail, whose audio and video communications ability today requires use of a proprietary plug-in. The real-time chat software originated from Google's 2010 acquisition of Global IP Solutions (GIPS), a company specializing in Internet telephony and videoconferencing. Shortly after releasing software for audio and video chat as an open-source project called WebRTC as open-source software, Google is beginning to build it into its Chrome browser.
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