Tag Archive for 'skype'
Skype is a great service, there’s no doubt about that. However, the biggest drawback is that it’s not really a very portable service, meaning that for the most part you’ll be using it from home. That will all change later this month when Skype launches their own branded mobile handset.
In their latest high-end motherboard ASUS has slapped a cute little Linux multi-boot distro in there, called Express Gate, to give access to media functionality without needing to load Windows. Now It’s conjured up by DeviceVM and originally called Splashtop, and its unique selling point is that it not only features a media player or even [...]
Our robot-obsessed friend Robert Oschler pointed out this awesome hack involving Skype, a WowWee Roboquad and internet connection, that lets you call up your robot from anywhere in the world, control it remotely and - thanks to a head-mounted video camera - stream live media back to you. Here’s a clip of the beastie in [...]
The robot itself has to two positions it can be in, and upright one, and one more closely resembling a scorpion. It also moves around via tank-like treads and has a light atop its head.
We looked at Netgear’s SPH-101 Skype phone last December, praising it for the convenience of cheap or low-cost VOIP calls and remaining silently critical of the whopping MRSP. Well, my favourite cam-whore Kevin Tofel has grappled with the handset itself and finds it comes up trumps if portability floats your sexy boat.
Skype and Intel are being super duper generous on this coming mother’s day as they partnered up to give Skype users unlimited international and long distance call from US and Canada to any numbers in the world.
Home phone design is lamentable. Yes, there are a few exceptions - Bang & Olufsen, I’m drooling at you - but in general the humble PSTN handset is the dreary cousin to the glittering, posing cellphone. What’s surprising is the number of manufacturers whose different departments churn out both cellular and land-line phones, but across [...]
If you talk a lot on Skype while you’re on the road, but are tired of talking on bulky headset? Kensington has a new phone that might be just what you’re looking for. It’s a small Bluetooth phone that fits neatly into your PCMCIA slot, so there’s nothing extra to carry around. That is unless [...]
I’m a hard-sell when it comes to VoIP handsets, in fact some might say I was just plain picky. I can’t see the point of anything that has to be plugged in to a USB port (unless you’ve got a server at home, would you really want to leave your PC on all the time [...]
I just bought myself the $14.95 USD plan from Skype. You can make unlimited outgoing calls from Skype. This plan rocks, and if you are working at a place like SlashGear around this time (right before CES), you know you are going to have to make plenty of calls!
It has probably already saved me $14.95 [...]
