All the stories tagged with skype
Use Skype on your new Panasonic VIERA Cast Blu-ray player
03/01/2011, It looks like we have one more device to add to Skype’s ever expanding list of devices that can use the VoIP software. Panasonic has just announced that their brand new VIERA Cast Blu-ray players will have the ability to [...]
Make cheap international calls with any phone
02/25/2011, Who said you had to use a smartphone with the Skype app if you wanted to use Skype on a phone? Thanks to Skype’s new Skype To Go service, Skype users can now make international calls at regular Skype rates [...]
Skype Access Wi-Fi service announced
02/15/2011, [MWC] Skype has taken the opportunity at this year’s MWC in Barcelona to announce its latest development of their own Wi-Fi service known as Skype Access. Its partnership will be expanded to cover more than 500,000 locations worldwide, where previously [...]
Skype delivers Per-Minute Billing for Wi-Fi access
02/13/2011, VoIP network giant Skype recently inked a deal with a series of Wi-Fi networks so that they can offer roaming for its pay-as-you-go Internet customers. In a nutshell, this means Skype users are able to hook up to the Internet [...]
DIY your own telepresence robot for $500
02/12/2011, We’d all love to have our own personal robot avatar to buy scones for us, but our bank account doesn’t seem in favor of that. If you’re in the same boat but have some fancy DIY skills, you could solve [...]
Skype for iPhone now works with TVs
02/09/2011, Skype for iPhone just keeps getting better. Skype has just announced that their Skype for iPhone app has been update to work with Skype-enabled TVs. Though we know that not many people have such television sets yet, it’s good to [...]
Skype 5 for Mac supports group video chat
01/27/2011, Skype has updated the Mac version of its VoIP program with the release of Skype 5 for Mac. The latest version offers Skype group video calling for the first time (on a Mac) and supports as many as 10 simultaneous [...]
Call button appears on Facebook’s messaging system?
01/27/2011, We’ve long been hearing rumors of voice calls within Facebook, possibly with some integration with Skype. Now a leaked picture seems to show a “Call” button appear in the Facebook messaging system. The button apparently appeared for a brief moment [...]
Skype hits a record 27M concurrent users at one go
01/11/2011, Aside from a recent bump, Skype seems to be going through a pretty comfortable period. After recently announcing the acquisition of Qik, the company has just hit a record number of simultaneous users today. The VoIP company usually serves about [...]
Skype to acquire Qik
01/06/2011, Skype seems to be going from strength to strength. After the VoIP company recently updated its iOS app to support video chat, the company has announced that it has entered a definitive agreement to acquire Qik, the popular provider of [...]
China bans Skype and other non-state owned VOIP services
12/30/2010, After recovering from a recent worldwide crash, Skype looks like it won’t be recovering in a certain country on the eastside of the world. China has just made all VOIP services, besides those owned by the government, illegal – therefore [...]
Skype 3.0 for iOS brings video calls over 3G and Wi-Fi
12/29/2010, We’ve been hearing whispers about it for a while, and now the latest version of Skype for the iPhone offers users the luxury of making Skype to Skype video calls from their iPhone via Wi-Fi or 3G. They will also [...]
Skype delivers post mortem on recent outage
12/29/2010, Skype did promise to work on a post mortem on their recent worldwide outage, and they made good on it. Apparently, the whole fiasco happened simply because of a bug in a slightly outdated Windows version of Skype. It seemed [...]
