I'm not sure I'd call it the killer app the PS Vita's looking for, but if you've been waiting for a video chat option that lets you avail yourself of the Vita's dual cameras, it's finally here, as in right now, courtesy Skype.
No, it doesn’t remedy Skype’s kludgy, five-steps-backward Mac interface, but the new Skype beta for OS X (and standard version for Windows) will allow you to call Facebook friends if you so desire.
Watch out, Netflix: There’s a new player in the online video space, with the kind of past history that should probably make you a little nervous. Introducing VDIO, the new streaming video-on-demand service from the people who brought you Skype. And Napster. And Apache. You’ll find some Microsoft veterans in there, too.
Tango has launched a PC app, giving desktop and laptop users a new way to video chat with their smartphone-toting friends. The app is available free for Windows PCs from Tango’s website.
Skype has announced that it’s acquired “GroupMe,” a group text messaging service. Financial details are still relatively unknown at this point, but AllThingsD says Skype purchased the company for around $85 million late Sunday afternoon.
Skype for iPad briefly surfaced on Apple’s App Store this morning, promising to unlock net-based voice and video calling for tablet aficionados, but the app mysteriously disappeared just as quickly. In its wake: a puzzling “temporarily removed” note.
Days of wild speculation as to what “awesome” really is can finally be laid to rest.
At last, Skype’s Android app supports video calling, but it’s only available on four phones for now.
Does being cut off from the outside world give you the heebie jeebies?
The entertainment industry’s been pretty lethargic about bringing big-screen, high-definition video calling to living rooms en masse. It’s been left to video game hardware manufacturers via set-top boxes to do the job, be they video chats with up to six people using Sony’s PlayStation 3, or Video Kinect using Microsoft’s motion-sensing Xbox 360 camera.
What goes down must eventually come back up. That would’ve been Newton’s fourth law had he lived another 284 years and been using Skype this morning.
