Category Archives for Announcements

Gruveo Embeds Now Open to Everyone

Last December, we launched our closed beta program for Gruveo embeds. Over these past months, we have seen tremendous interest from users wishing to add Gruveo to their site, and we witnessed quite a few integration success stories.

The time has come, and we are excited to announce that Gruveo embeds are now open to everyone. Click the button below to request your free embed code:

Here are just a few reasons to add Gruveo to your web property:

• Arrange video meetings with clients right on your website
• Enable your users to communicate with each other securely
• Take existing service to the next level by adding video calling capabilities to it
• …And it’s all FREE!

Go ahead and embed Gruveo today – click here to request the code.

Increased Server Presence in Europe and South America

Fresh on the heels of refactoring our infrastructure for better scaling, we are increasing our server presence in South America and Europe. So if you are making Gruveo calls to/from one of those regions, you may notice lower delays and overall smoother call experience, starting today. Enjoy!

Scheduled Infrastructure Maintenance

We will be performing scheduled maintenance of the Gruveo infrastructure this Sunday, March 8. There will be two maintenance batches that are scheduled as follows:

• March 8 at 2 AM UTC
• March 8 at 9 PM UTC

The expected maintenance window is 2 hours for each batch; however, the actual time taken can be much less. Gruveo calls may not be available in some regions while the maintenance is performed.

We apologize in advance for any inconvenience.

Gruveo Comes to Internet Explorer and Safari on Desktop

Last summer, Gruveo had to drop support of desktop Internet Explorer and Safari due to switching to the new WebRTC technology. We’ve been longing to bring Gruveo back to our IE and Safari users ever since, and we are happy to announce that we are doing it today.

Gruveo now works in IE 10+ and Safari 7+ on desktop with the help of the excellent Temasys WebRTC plugin. The plugin is a free, quick install for Windows and Mac OS X that enables the WebRTC functionality in IE and Safari. Gruveo will prompt you to install the plugin if you try to make a call in one of those browsers, and we also provide a detailed installation guide.

The WebRTC plugin comes from a trusted source: Temasys is a Singapore-based company that is part of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standards committee and the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) working group that are actually defining the WebRTC technology itself.

Once the plugin is installed, Gruveo “just works”, enabling effortless video conversations with other Gruveo users no matter what platform they are on.

There are a few known issues to Gruveo operation in IE and Safari, the status of which you can find here.

Safari and Internet Explorer, we are happy to have you back!

Enjoy Gruveo in Your Language

Great news for our international users: Gruveo is now available in 7 languages in addition to English. The new languages are French, German, Italian, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Spanish (Latin America), and Ukrainian.

The language is detected automatically but you can always switch it using the select box in the bottom of the page. Translations for our iOS app are coming soon, too.

Here’s to squashing language barriers with Gruveo!