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The rumor mill is churning yet again, and this time we’re hearing that Facebook and Skype are about to roll out a deeply integrated experience for users. The two companies are preparing to announce a partnership that will offer access to SMS, voice, an…
A 27-year-old Venezuelan convicted of pillaging and subsequently reselling more than 10 million VoIP minutes has been sentenced to 10 years in prison. Edwin Pena’s VoIP bootlegging operation depended on good old brute force attacks for its success, o…
For those of you who don’t mind walking on the beta side of software, there’s a new version of Skype available, version 5.0 Beta 2. Among the handful of changes, Skype 5.0 beefs up its group video calling feature with support for up to 10 people. For i…
We know–it’s been a week, and you’re starting to go into No BS Podcast withdrawal. Well don’t worry, we’ve got what you crave: episode 152 is online. If you can calm those shaking hands long enough to click the link, you’re in store for Gordon, Natha…
Google announced today that in the first 24 hours of availability, Gmail users placed over 1 million calls. That’s very impressive considering many accounts still do not have access to the feature, which is being rolled out gradually. The new VoIP serv…
Gmail has had the capability to do voice and video chat between PCs for some time. But starting today, Google is rolling out direct phone calls integrated into Gmail. In the Chat area on the left side of Gmail, users will now see a ‘Call Phone’ option….
One of the topics we get asked about most often is VoIP (short for Voice over Internet Protocol), or Internet telephony. VoIP refers to any service that lets you make “phone calls” online. A lot of people have heard that you can make calls for chea…