January 21, 2011
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…
Tags: add-on, browser, extension, firefox, Internet, Mozilla, News Worthy, Skype, Software, VOIP
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January 9, 2011
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 …
Tags: Blu-ray, CES, ces 2011, Home, living room, maximum tech, News Worthy, Skype, Sony, video calling, VOIP
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December 30, 2010
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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December 30, 2010
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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December 23, 2010
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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December 20, 2010
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…
Tags: free, Gmail, Google, google voice, News Worthy, VOIP
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November 16, 2010
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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October 5, 2010
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 …
Tags: android, Home, mobile, News Worthy, operating system, OS, Skype, Smartphone, softare, VOIP
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