Daily News 2004/12/29

"Xin Shi Tong" providing solutions for video communications

　　Not satisfied with the traditional voice telecom service, people are eager for a new kind of remote communication method based on video system. With an increasing demand for this, the enterprises began to pay attention to video communications. Such service becomes more and more popular and is applied in almost every field to increase the economic benefit and shorten the physical distance between the people.
As a brand-new video communication service provided by China Telecom, "Xin Shi Tong" (also called "video conference") is a real-time multimedia communication method combining image, voice and data and characterized by interactivity.

　　The Xin Shi Tong system is built on the reliable network of China Telecom, with various kinds of access modes, such as E1 dedicated line, ISDN, IP broadband, DDN and so on. It can provide a powerful support and guarantee for the enterprises in developing remote video applications.

ICQ coming back on the stage again---intending to beat MSN in 2 years

　　According to the medias from Hong Kong and Taiwan, ICQ, the world leading instant message software provider, marketed ICQ5.0 recently and announced that it has formally entered into the instant message market of Asia. It expects to improve the service rate of ICQ in Asia to beat MSN. Taiwan will be the first area it will catch according to the plan.

　　According to Eyal Cohen, vice president of ICQ, in the past the service rate of ICQ in Asia has been as high as 70%, however, the situation changed due to the lack of a more practical operation interface. Now, ICQ came back on the stage again, with Xtraz techniques, customized panels and abundant Chinese services. It aims to increase the ICQ service rate in Taiwan from 10% to over 20% in a short term.

Edify certified by VoiceXML

　　EVIP9.0 as provided by Edify has been certified officially by VoiceXML and VoiceXML 2.0 on Dec. 14 of 2004.
Edify EVIP is designed to develop automatic vice service system, telephone answering applications and voice recognition applications. The enterprise subscribers can be on the same platform through the VoiceXML solution and the Ed` ify solution.
With VoiceXML as the Markup language, the developer and provider of platform and tools can carry out the work more easily and interact with other VoiceXML-based systems. It is designed on the basis of the need to remove all the non-standard Markups.