Video calling over 3rd party apps

As an avid apple believer I want to do everything with my apple products, including make video calls to my parents overseas. Now while I understand that apple is bringing facetime to 3g in the furture for now no such luck. Normally there is "an app for that" but there isn't any third party video calling app for Iphone 4. What are my options.

Accessible through either iTunes App Store or from the iPhone App Store:
Tango: Supports both iPhone 4 and Android phones. Video calling over 3G and WIFI. Easy set up and access your contact list showing who you can video call. No desktop version at this time.
Skype: Supports iPhone 4 and soon to support Android phones. Video calling over 3G and WIFI. Requires registration with Skype. Offers desktop version. Provides options for discounted international voice calls to landlines and cellphones.
As for FaceTime Apple should seriously reconsider updating the iOS to support video calling over 3G instead of just WIFI which is not readily available. Most international carriers already support HSPA+ which provides sufficient bandwidth and speed to allow video calling over 3G as already proven by Tango and Skype.

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1. DBA team to find a way to identify specific Querios/DBOperations that are taking too long. (add references here)
2. App team to collaborate with the App manufacturer's support organization to see what design changes or parameters could alter the nature of queries being generated or affect the size of the underlying tables. (too specific for each 3rd party app)
3. After exhausing (2), DBA team to analyze the remaining culprit queries and find ways to obtain better performance without changing the query or the size of the database tables via indexes/DB parameters/etc.. (add references here)
4. After exhausing (3), DBA/Unix admin team to identify which specific hardware bottlenecks are being faced (CPUs/storage/memory) to see if hardware changes can help obtain better performance.
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In general your approach is correct.
However I'd put priorities different way.
1. DBA team to find a way to identify specific Querios/DBOperations that are taking too long. (add references here)
2. DBA team to analyze the culprit queries and find ways to obtain better performance without changing the query or the size of the database tables via indexes/DB parameters/etc.. (add references here)
With collaboration with the App manufacturer's support if required.
Indexes are transparent to application logic. They do not affect results data. Only performance.
Note that indexes should be regular b-tree indexes, not unique or bitmap.
Edited by: user11181920 on Nov 7, 2012 3:20 PM
Changes of queries can be allowed here, with using Oracle query substitution techniques (Plan Stability, Plan Management...).
3. After exhausing (2), DBA/Unix admin team to identify which specific hardware bottlenecks are being faced (CPUs/storage/memory) to see if hardware changes can help obtain better performance.
Not only because today to beef up HW is less expensive way to improve performance comparing to SW optimization, especially redesign of App; but mainly, in case with SAP, the poor performance that can be improved by HW tells that the sizing of the system has been done incorrectly.
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4. After exhausting (3), App team to collaborate with the App manufacturer's support organization to see what design changes or parameters could alter the nature of queries being generated or affect the size of the underlying tables. (too specific for each 3rd party app)

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