Facebook has rolled out free voice calling to other Facebook users via its Messenger app for iOS.
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Sidecar App Lets You Share Photos, Location and Live Video During Calls
Despite what hyperbolic pundits might tell you, the phone call is not dead. But it could use a kick in the pants. That’s what Sidecar is trying to do with new apps for iPhone and Android.
Sidecar supplements traditional phone …
A Brief History of Skype
Microsoft just bought Skype for $8.5 billion. Not to get too personal, but that’s many, many billions more than I make in a year. But unlike buying a human writing machine like yours truly at an affordable price, Microsoft is paying $8.5 billion for something called Skype. Here’s what it’s getting.
Remember Kazaa?
Kazaa, in case …
Microsoft Makes Skype Purchase Official: What You Should Know
Microsoft has officially announced its purchase of VoIP provider Skype for a whopping $8.5 billion. As we reported late last night, it’s Microsoft’s most expensive acquisition to date.
(Read More: A Brief History of Skype)
This is a big, big gamble for Microsoft, but one that could ultimately pay off in several key areas. I’d …
Your New Phone: Facebook
Not content with playing home to gazillions of your family barbecue photos or a megatrillion updates about cats, Facebook is branching out and taking on yet another aspect of social networking: old-fashioned voice calls.
The hitherto humble little Facebook chat window, which lurks unobtrusively at the bottom of your Facebook wall, now …
Free Android and iPhone Group Video Calling Comes to Fring Beta
Want to FaceTime a bunch of people at once? Boo hoo. Skype for iPhone can’t do it either. Fring, another VOIP service, just started offering free group video calling – but it’s limited to a private beta build. Which means perhaps in a few months, it might get to tantalize the public with its video wiles.
The feature lets you …
Skype Looks to Pad Revenue with Display Ads
As Skype prepares for its IPO, the company is developing out its revenue streams by layering in display ads today. The update isn’t a surprising one, but everything web-related is so heavily draped in ads that it hadn’t fully dawned on me how much Skype’s been missing out on an opportunity, especially since its VoIP and chat …
Skype Now Available for Android (With a Couple Asterisks)
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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Google Voice Apps to Make Their Way Back to iPhones?
A little over a year ago, a handful of Google Voice applications co-existed peacefully inside Apple’s App Store.
VoiceCentral, GVDialer, and GV Mobile were each developed by independent programmers to leverage the Google Voice service in order to provide iPhone owners with the ability to make and receive calls using their Google Voice …
Skype Testing Out 10 Person Group Video Calling
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 …
Google Officially Integrates Voice Calling into Gmail
As an update to this morning’s post, Google has officially unwrapped free voice calls to any phone number in the U.S. and Canada right from within Gmail. International calls start at around two cents per minute, too.
People with Google Voice phone numbers can receive incoming calls right inside their Gmail by adding “Google Chat” as …
Google Voice to be Integrated Into Gmail for VoIP Calls?
Back in 2005, a useful communications service called GrandCentral was launched. With it, you could get yourself a single phone number that got forwarded to any or all of your other phone numbers and featured some cool bells and whistles such as different voicemail greetings depending upon who was calling you—friends, family, …