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AT&T’s Facetime Restrictions: More Questions than Answers
When Apple brings its Facetime video chat service to cellular networks this fall, most AT&T customers won’t be able to use it on the network.
That’s because AT&T will only allow Facetime over cellular for subscribers to the …
‘Tango’ Video Chat Gets a PC App to Take On Skype
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.
Although several other video chat apps exist already for smartphones—Fring and Qik among them—rare is the service that allows PC-to-smartphone or …
Skype Video Chat Now Works on Android Phones (but Probably Not Yours)
At last, Skype’s Android app supports video calling, but it’s only available on four phones for now.
Video calling works over Wi-Fi and 3G, and is supported on the HTC Desire S, Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Sony Ericsson Xperia Pro and Google Nexus S. The common thread among these phones is that they all run Android 2.3, but a Skype …
AOL’s Secret Video Chat Service Now Public
Just two days after Microsoft officially announced it would purchase Skype, AOL went public with its new, free video chat service. It’s funny (and perhaps not so coincidental) how things happen, right?
TechCrunch leaked the service last week, which was sent only to employees of AOL, but now its beta round is open to all.
AOL’s …
Google Talk Video and Voice Chat Comes to Android
Huzzah! Google’s spiffing up their Android phones by adding Google Talk video and voice chat capabilities. It also might be time for me cheat on my iPhone, with a hot, newer number.
The calls can be made over 3G/4G and Wi-Fi. It doesn’t matter if the other party is on their Android phone or sitting behind a clunking computer – …
Fring Brings Four-Way Video Chat to iPhone, Android
While Apple’s Facetime languishes with no new features, and Google’s Android continues to lack a native video chat app, Fring has gone ahead and added four-way video calls to its iPhone and Android apps.
The app is free for iOS and Android, as are video and voice calls to other Fring users. Fring makes its money by selling a FringOut …
Online Shopping Reinvented with Real Sales People and Slick Video Chat
A Swedish cell phone company just unveiled what might be the future of online shopping – a strange combo of video chat and interactive graphics that looks very much like something out of Minority Report.
The video above explains how the 3 Live Shop works and how it was made. Three bespoke operator stations were built by a team working
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Qik for iOS Lets iPhone, Android Users Converse
Apple and Google’s smartphone rivalry doesn’t mean iPhone and Android users can’t video chat. Qik’s new iPhone app provides another way to do it.
Qik Video Connect for iPhone, fourth-generation iPod Touch and iPad 2 is available from the App Store now for $3. It includes video editing for conversations, live visual effects, HD video …
Skype Launches Free Video Chat App For iPhone, iPad
Trust Skype to come through where Apple fails: While the iPhone’s own FaceTime only works on WiFi, Skype today releases an updated app that will let iPhone users video chat on both WiFi and AT&T’s 3G network.
The app will also allow iPad and iPod Touch users to receive video calls, with those using the latest iPod Touch being able to …
Is Facebook Launching Video Chat with Skype?
A website developer has discovered a little tweak in Facebook’s code that will allow video chatting functionality.
Tal Ater from Green Any Site was working on his website’s Facebook application, when he noticed a “VideoChat” object in their code, which would allow the inevitable. He delved further and found out it has several …
New T-Mobile myTouch Features FaceTime-like Video Chat
T-Mobile and HTC have just announced the “new” myTouch aka myTouch HD. Like the G2, the myTouch HD runs on T-Mobile’s super fast HSPA+ network (4G) that’s currently available in Biloxi and Gulfport, Miss.; Denver, Colo.; Huntsville, Ala.; Knoxville, Tenn.; Myrtle Beach, S.C.; Norfolk, Va.; Omaha, Neb.; Phoenix and Tucson, Ariz.; …