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Skype and Qik Hint At Video Calling Partnership With AT&T

Rue Liu, Feb 17th 2011 Discuss [0]

Skype and Qik jointly announced at MWC 2011 that they plan on further integrating their technologies to help improve Qik's video calls on Sprint and T-Mobile devices and develop Skype's video calling solution for the Verizon LTE network. However, during the talk, Skypes's head of consumer product management, Rick Osterloh, hinted at the possibility of bringing Skype's video calling to AT&T devices. "Let's watch out for some announcements there," said Osterloh when asked about pursuing a relationship with AT&T as a video calling partner. Read The Full Story

Pathpartner Skype 720p and Ittiam 4-way video chat get TI OMAP4 demo

Chris Davies, Feb 16th 2011 Discuss [1]

Texas Instruments told us they were more interested in showing what their OMAP processors could do than telling us, and the TI booth at MWC 2011 was bristling with vendors showing what they'd coaxed out of OMAP4 chipsets. Video conferencing companies Pathpartner and Ittiam shared a stand with their offerings, the former pushing 720p HD Skype calls, the latter four-way video calls in which only a single participant need have an OMAP4-based device. Read The Full Story

Skype Expands To Over 500,000 WiFi Hot Spots

Rue Liu, Feb 15th 2011 Discuss [0]

Skype just announced at MWC 2011 that it has expanded its Skype Access coverage to over 500,000 hotspots. The Skype Access service was introduced back in January 2009 and provides pay-per-minute access to WiFi hotspots around the world. With this service, users can take advantage of Wi-Fi hotspots without having to pay by the day or by the hour, and can conveniently pay only as much as they use with their Skype Credit. Read The Full Story

Skype for Mac drops beta, charges for group video calls [Video]

Chris Davies, Jan 27th 2011 Discuss [1]

Skype has stripped the beta label from its Skype for Mac app, and in the process made group video calling a premium - i.e. paid - feature. $4.99 gets you a day's use of group video, or there's a monthly subscription for $8.99. Meanwhile, Skype has also slimmed down the UI and stuffed more of IM conversations into the screen at any one time. Read The Full Story

Use Firefox? Time to Block that Skype Toolbar

Chris Burns, Jan 21st 2011 Discuss [3]

Word from Mozilla is that one of the top crashers of Mozilla Firefox 3.6.13 (current version) is the Skype toolbar. This toolbar works with Firefox to detect phone numbers in webpages, turning them into clickable buttons. This extension is bundled with Skype and is clicked to be installed by default whenever someone downloads or updates Skype. Now Mozilla has found that over the past week this toolbar has been responsible for almost 40,000 crashes of Firefox. That's a lot. Read The Full Story

Skype sets 27m online users record

Chris Davies, Jan 11th 2011 Discuss [0]

Skype's official statistics have confirmed that it set a new record for simultaneous users of its VoIP service, with over 27 million online in the past seven days. In fact, both the 26m and 27m records were broken in short succession in the past few days; Skype is yet to comment officially on the numbers - they're perhaps waiting for the 30m mark, which would be rounder and more press release friendly - but the breakthrough comes in the wake of video-capable iOS apps and new group calling functionality. Read The Full Story

Skype Unveils New Premium Package & Group Calling Feature

Evan Selleck, Jan 6th 2011 Discuss [0]

Skype is keeping busy at this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. With rumors that the company would be buying Qik by the end of the show, and then turning out that the deal is already almost finished up, it seems that the company is revamping a few key areas of their business plan at the start of 2011. With that in mind, the company has unveiled a new premium package for those who need to do more, together. Read The Full Story

Skype buys Qik for online sharing & compression tech [Video]

Chris Davies, Jan 6th 2011 Discuss [0]

Skype has announced that it is buying Qik, in a deal rumored earlier on today. The deal, the company claims, will allow them to integrate Qik's recording, sharing and storing capabilities to Skype's existing video systems. Read The Full Story

Skype Looking to Buy Qik for $100 Million, Insider Claims

Evan Selleck, Jan 6th 2011 Discuss [0]

According to an insider, Skype may be looking to pick up Qik and add them into their fold soon. Qik's name became popular more recently with the introduction of video calls on mobile phones, and Skype's rumored purchase of the unit would lead some to believe that Skype is trying to stay ahead of the pack when it comes to that particular feature. According to the report, the deal would be somewhere in the park of $100 million. Read The Full Story

Skype headed to Sony Bravia and Vizio Via TVs soon

Shane McGlaun, Jan 6th 2011 Discuss [0]

If you are a fan of chatting with your friends and family, using Skype you will have access to the service on a couple more platforms really soon according to Skype. Skype reports that its service will hit the Sony Bravia line of HDTVs and the Vizio Via line of HDTVs "soon." Read The Full Story

Jabra Skype range outed: EXTREME, EASYGO, CHILL & SPEAK410

Chris Davies, Jan 5th 2011 Discuss [0]

Jabra has unveiled a range of Skype-certified speakerphones, the Jabra EXTREME, Jabra EASYGO, Jabra CHILL and Jabra SPEAK410. The EXTREME is the most flexible, pairing a Bluetooth headset and USB dongle, though the EASYGO still features multipoint connections for remaining paired with both your PC and phone. Read The Full Story

NVIDIA develops Android Skype HD video calling for Tegra 2

Chris Davies, Jan 5th 2011 Discuss [0]

NVIDIA has developed an Android Skype HD video calling reference platform, using the VoIP company's SkypeKit SDK. The implementation, demonstrated at NVIDIA's CES 2011 press conference today on an Android tablet, relies on Tegra 2's native high-definition video processing capabilities, and promises cross-platform HD video calls. Read The Full Story