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At eComm 2010,Craig Walker, Google’s Group Product Manager in the Real Time Communications group, gave a key note on why communications is moving the cloud, why that is inevitable, and why it’s in line with Google’s vision.

“10 to 15 years ago, it was hard to get stuff into your phone such as addresses, phone numbers, and on on. And if you got a new device, you had to redo it. Same thing with your desktop,” said Walker. “With the cloud, it became possible to store that data remotely. But even with voice communications, it has not changed much in the last 20 years; all the services such as SMS are still trapped in the phone.

The results of the second annual global study on the quality of broadband connections done at end of 2009 reveal that 62 out of the 66 countries analyzed had improved the quality of consumer broadband services since last year. However, new data from the study highlights the extent of the digital quality divide between urban and rural areas and, for the first time, compares the quality of fixed and mobile broadband services.

The 2009 research delivers new insight into who the global broadband leaders are by combining data for each country’s broadband penetration with a measure of the quality of broadband services actually experienced by its citizens. The study was conducted by a team of MBA students from the Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford and the University of Oviedo’s Department of Applied Economics, and sponsored by Cisco.

According to Ericsson estimates, mobile data surpassed voice on a global basis during December of 2009. This finding is based on Ericsson measurements from live networks covering all regions of the world.

In the 2010 CeBIT's "future park", a concept "Silent Sound" Technology demonstrated which aims to notice every movement of the lips and transform them into sounds, which could help people who lose voices to speak, and allow people to make silent calls without bothering others.

The device, developed by the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), uses electromyography, monitoring tiny muscular movements that occur when we speak and converting them into electrical pulses that can then be turned into speech, without a sound uttered.

The technology opens up a host of applications, from helping people who have lost their voice due to illness or accident to telling a trusted friend your PIN number over the phone without anyone eavesdropping -- assuming no lip-readers are around.

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