Peer to Multipeer VideoShare Application Server Released !!!

Hi!

As promised we will be posting unveiling our new products "road to Barcelona Mobile Congress" using the blog. Today the Peer to Multipeer VideoShare Application Server.

What's that? it is the infrastructe enabling a mobile to several mobiles VideoShare combinational call. The calling party voice-call the application server, type the called group code, and share the video, then the application server set up the multiparty with the called party subscribers and as soon as they are accepting the video-invite is sent.

Just notice that we are using videoshare native feature (the Nokia N Series one), not installing specific client. Hanset manufacters looking for application for their videoshare features, please, contact us :-)

Here the video-demo:

The peer to multipeer application server is connected to the IMS or is privately hosted using our ConverG product.
This product has inmediate application in the emergencies and law & reinforcement fields and also to build up mobile communities.

hope you like !

solaiemes team

LiveServe 2.0...when Mobile and WEB 2.0 walk together :-)

Hi, we will publish in the next few days a press release in out website, but just in advance for our readers, we are going to unveil our first product reaching the second release, the LiveServe.

Here you can find a video with a couple of use cases, integration as Widget of 3G VideoShare "See What I See" in blogger public site, and the video-real-time-autoposting, a way to create personal videoblogs from whatever you are in your important moments. Concepts as video-twiter become feasible, and a lot of enterprise productivity solutions could be based in real time videoreporting.
We did not install anything in the device, we are using native features as VideoShare and can use videocall (but videocall has worse performace), these are network infrastructure based solutions.

It is time for carriers to make the move towards IMS, or at least enable this kind of services increasing ARPU, and new MVNO's to take a look about this services as virgin market segment to get customers, not only techy individuals but media companies, services companies, emergency forces, law & reinforcement, etc.


be there, from now on to the Mobile Congress week we will unveil new products

keep in touch  :-)

best regards.

Solaiemes recognized at Bancaja Entrepreneurship Awards!

Hi,
We are glad to share with our people, readers, customers, investors ... this good new, Solaiemes was one of the technology based new companies awarded by Bancaja.

Bancaja is a spanish savings bank. The Bancaja Social Foundation sponsors a programme to foster entrepreneurship, one of the key points of the programme is the Annual Awards to recognized the entrepreneurship among the young people. With several awards categories (technology, social enterprise, and "ideas to start a company") they receive more than 400 memos.

Solaiemes was one of 10 technology based company awarded in the 13th Edition.

http://obrasocial.bancaja.es/emprendedores/premio-bancaja/premio-bancaja.aspx

We are happy, this award is not only related to technology achievements. Key points as business plan, fair/smart HR policies, strategy and business plan execution are reviewed by jury, then, our envision and how we are doing is being recognized.

solaiemes team

Solaiemes Blog & Creative Commons

Hi,
We want to stimulate the debate around mobility, new use cases, new IMS infrastructure based solutions, and mobile entrepreneurship.

We would like our readers posting comments to enrich the blog (ours and also yours) and we offer our contents under Creative Commons free licensing for other web resources or media.

The chosen CC License:

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/legalcode


hope to help each other stimulating the mobility ecosystem

solaiemes team

1st VC Round completed !!!

When we started-up Solaiemes, we did not want to wait until the company got the needed funding to develope and show our multimedia mobile solutions infrastructure.

With limited resources we reached some milestones and at the same time tried to get VC at the starting level we needed.

Last October we signed de entrepreneur soft-loan (NEOTEC) from CDTI (Spanish Ministery of Industry).

Now after Due-Dilligenge and negotiation proccess we reached an agreement with EURECAN, the VC fund of Caja Navarra (www.cajanavarra.es), EureCan invests in our Company.
Welcome on board.

See our PR: http://www.solaiemes.com/assets/pr/PR_CAN.pdf

Solaiemes Team

Happy New Mobile Year 2008

Hi!

Solaiemes team look forward 2008 will be a fantastic year for Mobile and Internet industry, and wish the best for all our readers, customers, partners, and nice people around the globe :-)

a short video about us :-) we promise to talk to camera next time ;-)
just defeating shyness

solaiemes team :-)

blogging from Mobile Asia Congress

Yesterday we had our pitching session, 6 minutes presentation in front of an audience of other innovators, journalists, carriers and handsets manufactures representatives, etc.

Today we has the speed dating session with carriers and VC reprensentatives inside the Mobile Innovation Programme and tomorrow we will attend at our booth.

We promise further coverage after event, but just as an appetizer our booth-pic :-)



solaiemes team

now...taking off...!!!

When coming from a multinational huge company, it is difficult to become entrepreneur with not initial VC backing your project, and it is a difficult change not only regarding financial risk but working enviroment. Working in facilities with 300 colleagues and the day after working alone, or with 1 or 2 people, it was hard at the beginning, but the week ending we had our first town-hall with more than 10 people, partners, employees, thesis developers and Java university researchers involved with our project. I was happy, even realizing that till now tidy office is now being under the entrophy :-) and then some kind of combat will take place between jedi's and dark side of the mess.

But the important thing is that Solaiemes is taking off, we attract talent, we got clients, our technologies are being recognized, and the critical mass point is being achieved.

Solaiemes team

Solaiemes innovation being recognized !

It is hard to start-up a company from scratch, you know... finding right partners, recruiting enthusiastic people, making the business plan, reviewing the business plan, correcting the business plan ;-), research funds, bureaucracy, develope fast first prototypes of product portfolio, the challenge of getting first customers, got customers happy after trusting us.

Just arriving to our first "birthday" we just received the good new about being selected as a 'Top Innovator' for the GSMA's Mobile Innovation Summit at Asian Mobile Congress in Macau (12-13/November).

We will be showcasing our LiveServe VideoShare Suite 1.0 line of products and participation in the pitching session.

our PR: http://www.solaiemes.com/index.php?id=45

and the website of event
http://www.mobileasiacongress.com/english/mobileinnovation.htm

We will post our comments about the event, mobile trends we watch from the global exhibition during the event.

solaiemes team

Mobile 2.0 and Web 2.0...possible flirt?

The succesful Web 2.0 concepts, well-know ones as youtuve and social/professional networks facebook, linkedin, blogging sites, microblogging sites as jaiku and twitter too far from Mobility.
Fair to admit some of the web 2.0 allows to introduce posts from mobile with easy user interfaces but we need additional steps to build up "seamless comunities".

The succesful company SpinVox just walked one of these additional steps needed

http://www.spinvox.com/social-networks-facebook-twitter-and-jaiku-all-gain-voice.html

now it will be possible to post in blogs or microblogging sites using voice calls and real time converted in text in your blog sites....

Congratulations SpinVox...

Solaiemes will unveil shortly solutions to create a new concept for communities using video...just working to put together mobile and web 2.0.

Soon the beta-demos, be patient ;-)

Solaiemes Videos about our technologies !

We just recorded with a better camera than a simple handset as in the past :-) the new videos featuring our VideoShare infrastructure example of use cases and our demo enhancing mobile usability with our AVISG platform. We know we are not Spielberg but keep trying :-P

VIDEOSHARE TECHNOLOGY

USABILTY TECHNOLOGY

Services anybody?

ITU-T hosted in Geneva during the past week a workshop on "Multimedia in NGN". Interesting topics discussed but mainly from a technical point of view.

Everybody talks about the same services as the "NGN services":

Killer applications?: Video Blogging, Sharing, Video Ring Back Tones, Video to voice call continuity, innovative AMS applications
[From the summary notes from session "Using NGN capabilities to deliver multimedia services"]

Is this what the mass market wants?. I very much doubt it. These services need expensive devices, user experience are very complex, and will probably also generate expensive bills, as carriers will want to recover investment very quickly. Users can do most of these things now using on their PCs without any NGN.

The most interesting presentation was by NTT ("NTT's challenge: create new business on the NGN") and provided some interesting point of views about NTT perception of the NGN from a services point of view. They expect a massive user migration to FTTH networks, the raising curve of the number of FTTH users will catch DSL users in the first quarter of 2008.

Most importantly, NTT realizes that "The NTT Group cannot by itself make the most effective use of the NGN", they will build the session control around IMS but the services to network interfaces (SNI) will be opened to other companies and service providers, with several models considered: application hosted in NTT, 3rd party service provider directly accessing the SNI, etc. This is clearly the way forward (and NTT DoCoMo implemented it right in i-mode).

NTT is working on a very interesting service classification:

• Daily life services, such as telemetrics for utility companies, home automation / domotics, control of multimedia equipment, etc.
• Business related services, with examples a bit unrealistic, such as a bigger-than-life video conference facility that must cost a fortune.
  
• Content-related services, following the trend towards digital content, video on demand, etc.

Other topics in the workshop were ubiquitous sensor networks and NGN, etc. Take a look too to the presentation by the 3GPP SA chairman about how they are trying to prevent fragmentation of the IMS standard. And there was a very intriguing presentation about how carriers could embrace peer-2-peer on their own telecom solutions ...

Programme here: http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/worksem/multimedia/200709/programme.html

Carrier's desperation driving IMS ??? Not the best approach ...

Heavy Reading has just published a report on IMS status in carriers. "IMS Deployment Update: Promise & Challenges" (executive summary here). It shows that two perceptions I have already heard elsewhere are really quite widespread:

First (quoting from TMCnet), one of the conclusions from the report's author: "After several years of unvarnished hype, IMS has moved from hero to zero faster than the average telco panacea [...] IMS is a dying issue."

But, strinkingly, operator representatives also admit to be "struggling to find a position in the Web 2.0 world," and that "we don't see any other way to go but IMS."

On one hand we see that there is some perception that IMS is not only going down the hype curve, but actually dying. This is somehow expected. It will take some time to overcome all the issues of an over-hyped, very complex and new technology. And it remains to be seen how different will be what it is now IMS (in specs and drawing boards) from the result of that distillation process.

On the other hand, the carriers are desperate to embrace IMS' promise. But are they adding the non-technical components that are needed to make it a success? I am talking about imagination here. Migrating existing services to IMS will not provide much benefit, market needs imaginative services, but there is no much creativity yet. New services (like PoC) are not launched because of concerns about cannibalisation or revenue erosion ... Why not create new business models (such as PoC person-to-machine / machine-to-person, etc)? Risk is negligible for carriers, and much better than desperation anyway.

Following a long tradition, operators are turning to vendors to provide some "mojo", but incumbents suppliers are also worried about erosion of established businesses. Startups are more likely to provide the innovation the market needs.

Breaking News! new Solaiemes product, the LiveServe Media Server

Hi, we will issue a PR and add to our website the product description next week but just in advance for our blog readers: we extend our portfolio with our new baby.tech !!!

Solaiemes LiveServe MediaServer

This product completes our 1.0 release of our IMS based portfolio. The LiveServe MediaServer is a server designed to build downlink based (server to mobile ) VideoShare use cases.
Highly scalable, proven integrated with ConverG application server for standalone solutions or as IMS AS the LiveServe MediaServer could easily manage by remote servers/applications with a command bus, then it is licensable by third parties to build compelling solutions for their customers.

Solaiemes will provide their own use cases with the new product combined with ConverG and LiveServe but states their commit with the open architectures to make feasible third party solutions.

Our LiveServer VideoShare Suite Infrastructure Suite 1.0 (IMS & standalone) finally includes

• ConverG 1.0 (as IMS AS and/or standalone VS proxy)
• LiveServe 1.0 (as multiple server based player/recorder)
• LiveServe Media Server 1.0 (as media server with api for remote control for Video Share solutions)

If you need additional info, email to info@solaiemes.com

Update (24/sept/07), the product description in our website is :

http://www.solaiemes.com/index.php?id=43

thanks for reading us :-)
Solaiemes team