Google still wants the FCC to define interoperability for videoconferencing in ways...
Google still wants the FCC to define interoperability for videoconferencing in ways to promote non-proprietary application programming interfaces, executives told Consumer & Governmental Affairs Bureau disabilities officials about APIs they said should be “open” and “publicly available.” The company has…
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released such an API for Web-based multi-user video chat application Hangouts that works on its Google+ social media service. Hangouts has a captions app, an ex parte filing said. The CSDVRS video relay service company “developed an application based on Google’s open API that enables integration of VRS and video remote interpreting on top of Google Plus Hangouts,” said the filing posted Tuesday to docket 11-154 (http://xrl.us/bnhbpd). “Open, published APIs thus promote accessibility by allowing innovators to build on shared ... common infrastructure and establish bridges between technologies."