Popular VoIP service, Skype, is now available for Android handsets. The app allows you to call and instant message other Skype users for free, and there are low-cost monthly plans for calling out to regular phone numbers and receiving calls to your own Skype-provided telephone number.
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Get ready for Grandma to say hello more often on Facebook.
According to All Things Digital, Facebook and Skype are getting ready to announce a “significant and wide-ranging” partnership. The companies hope to bring SMS, voice chat and Facebook Connect all together so you’ll have no need to use any other service to contact your friends …
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As an outage, it wasn’t as lengthy as Skype’s 2007 two-day disappearance. As a bug, it didn’t produce results as hilarious as the 2009 screwup that left Google identifying the entire Web as malware. But the Facebook glitch that left “many” users without access to the site for two and a half hours must rank among the Web’s bigger …
Remember the optional party line feature available from your telephone company back in the late 80s and early 90s?
One girl from your entire group of friends would have somehow convinced her parents to add party line to their phone, she’d call up a handful of other awkward preteens, and you’d all sit there in silence together, with …
Skype has filed for a U.S. IPO today and the Internet calling service is looking to raise $100 million after being sold off by eBay last fall. Some notable facts about the company were revealed in its filing with the SEC.
Of the 560 million registered users only 8.1 million pay for the service, which averages out to $96 spent per …
Skype’s on the verge of releasing a new version of its popular VOIP/instant messaging/video calling software to include support for group video calling with up to five people. You can take the beta version for a spin provided you and your fellow chatters have grabbed the same update.
According to the Skype blog post:
“With …
This could be a huge blow to Skype users if it turns out to be true. Speaking to the UK’s Telegraph, Skype CEO Josh Silverman says the ads would be “done in a tasteful way.”
Can anyone point out a company that has implemented ads in a tasteful way?
You’d think the recently rolled out subscription rates would entice even …
Skype Mobile will be available on nine Verizon smartphones starting this Thursday. The app will allow users to make free Skype-to-Skype calls and send Sype-to-Skype instant messages over Verizon’s network without using plan minutes or data allowances.
It’s a step in the right direction although if you think you’d be able to use …
Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2010
Today in Techland: Is Dubai something out of a Star Wars planet? It just might be. Will Street Fighter 4 pack much of a punch on the iPhone? Can Invincible save the world … again? Is the Skype app the best thing to happen to Verizon since “Can you hear me now?” Yep.
Just in case you were too busy begging …
A bit of MWC news that’s actually applicable to the US. Huzzah!
Skype and Verizon Wireless announced today that an exclusive Skype mobile app would be available for 3G smartphone users with data plans. No need to connect over Wi-Fi to use said app and there’s even unlimited Skype-to-Skype calls. I’m not entirely sure how much …
Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2010
Today in Techland: Steve chats with the amazing Ethan Hawke about the unwavering awesomeness of Gattaca, Gary brought us the new trailer from BioShock 2, and Peter and I ranted and raved about last night’s season premiere of LOST. Missed it? Watch it here on ABC.com and catch up.
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Normally when I catch wind of a product that promises to be “enhanced for this” or “optimized for that” I chalk it up to marketing spin and assume it’ll be priced higher than it should be with the hopes of duping casual consumers into buying it. Such was the case with the Freetalk Everyman Headset for Skype, a product that promises …
