Posts Tagged ‘ VOIP ’

Mozilla Blocks Skype Extension for Firefox, Explains Why

January 21, 2011
Mozilla Blocks Skype Extension for Firefox, Explains Why

Skype is an awesome VoIP app. Firefox is still one of our favorite browsers. What happens when you put the two together? You get a buggy combination, Mozilla says.
“The current shipping version of the Skype Toolbar is one of the top crashers of Mozilla…

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Skype Invades the Living Room on Up-Coming Sony Blu-Ray Players

January 9, 2011
Skype Invades the Living Room on Up-Coming Sony Blu-Ray Players

Skype video conferencing on the PC has been the reality for a while now, and their recent expansion into mobile devices has helped turned the software client into a household name. With few places left to expand it should be no surprise that the VOIP …

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Skype Calls Now Illegal in China

December 30, 2010
Skype Calls Now Illegal in China

Residents of mainland China got a rude awakening today. According to The Telegraph, popular voice over IP (VoIP) app Skype has been declared illegal in the country. The only Internet voice calls that will be legal to place are those made over the two g…

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Skype Blames Recent Outage Fiasco on Outdated Client Software

December 30, 2010
Skype Blames Recent Outage Fiasco on Outdated Client Software

In a blog post on Wednesday, Skype offered up a post-mortem explanation to the recent outage that affected thousands of users who were unable to connect and communicate.
“For starters, it helps to understand that Skype is based on a peer-to-peer (P2P) …

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Skype Outage Leaves 20 Million Users Voiceless

December 23, 2010
Skype Outage Leaves 20 Million Users Voiceless

Did you have trouble logging into Skype yesterday? If so, you’re far from alone, because so did around 20 million other users, all victims to a temporary outage in which “some of you may be having problems signing in,” Skype acknowledged in a Twitte…

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Free Gmail Voice Calls Extended Through 2011

December 20, 2010
Free Gmail Voice Calls Extended Through 2011

Google is offering a nice little holiday gift to Us users of Gmail today. You may remember a few months ago when Google rolled out voice calls in Gmail. At the time, they decided to make all Gmail calls to the US and Canada free through the end of 2010…

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Google Voice for iPhone Finally Enters App Store

November 16, 2010
Google Voice for iPhone Finally Enters App Store

After having overcome the mother of all delays, which even led a frustrated yet determined Google to launch an HTML5 web app just for iPhone users, Google Voice for iPhone has finally made it to the App Store. The app offers iPhone users a host of f…

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Skype Lands in Android Market

October 5, 2010
Skype Lands in Android Market

Just one day after appointing Cisco Senior Executive Tony Bates as its new CEO, Skype has gone and announced the release of its Skype for Android app for mobile handsets running Android 2.1 or later.
“The Skype experience is ubiquitous today. More and …

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