Skype provided more details on the reasons for its VoIP service was affected yesterday and today, it highlights the important role of supernodes, which act as intermediaries to connect with Skype. The outage, which took place on Wednesday, would affect the United States, Europe and Japan, and lasted several hours. The company wrote about Twitter [...]
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Skype Outage – Skype Problems Today
December 23, 2010 By 3 Comments
Millions of Skype Internet telephony worldwide could not make calls – or have been abandoned in mid-conversation – because of a failure of the network connection that began around 9 am PST Wednesday. It marked the second time this year that the popular, low-cost calling service has been hit by a major outage, and it [...]
Skype Down – Is Skype Really Down Today?
December 22, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Skype, one of the most popular Voice over IP [VoIP] services, appears to be currently down for millions of users around the world. The service has reportedly been down for more than one hour now. Many have already taken it to Twitter to express their frustration. Twitter users around the globe are taking to the [...]
Truphone Introduces Desktop Application; Replacing the Name “Truphone” to “TRU”
December 7, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Truphone is going beyond mobile by launching a desktop application that brings the same benefits the company’s mobile users can already enjoy to a computer near you. VoIP telco Truphone have released a desktop app to allow pay-as-you-go VoIP calling from PCs, Macs and Linux. Truphone, In other words, using the Truphone application on your [...]
Nokia “connectivity analyzer”: Now diagnose & analyze your Data connections
November 25, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Nokia Betalabs team introduced a new experimental app ‘Nokia Connectivity Analyzer’, Its a network utility app that diagnose and analyze your device WLAN and Packet Data connections. If you one of those who have hard times to understand why your WLAN connection is not working at home this new utility from Nokia beta labs could [...]
Gmail Phone Passes a Million Calls in 24 Hours
August 27, 2010 By 1 Comment
Gmail Phone Passes a Million Calls in 24 Hours : Gmail phone calls have got off to a incredible start. Over 1 million were placed in the first 24 hours by users eager to try out the free service. What we don’t know is how many of the folk nattering were from outside the US. [...]
Google Voice Introduces Google Call(Gmail Phone)
August 26, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Google Voice Introduces Google Call(Gmail Phone) : Google Inc. on Wednesday said its Gmail service will add a feature that allows users to call any phone directly from their computers., with the service available to Americans and Canadians. Unlike Google’s nearly two-year-old Gmail voice and video chat feature, which gives users an audio and visual [...]
Google Voice Brings Free Telephone Calls(VoIP) to US and Canada
August 26, 2010 By 1 Comment
Google Voice Brings Telephone Calls(VoIP) to US and Canada : Google has launched a service that lets Gmail users make free calls from their computers to phones, with the service available to Americans and Canadians. Unlike Google’s nearly two-year-old Gmail voice and video chat feature, which gives users an audio and visual experience online, the [...]
Google Brings Gmail Voice And Video Chat to Linux
August 20, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Good news for users of Debian-based Linux distributions out there. Google has finally updated their web based talk service to support voice and video chat on Linux. Visit www.gmail.com/videochat to download the plugin and get started. The plugin is only available for Debian-based distros and only in binary form. Getting it is straightforward, just download [...]
Vonage App Enables Free VoIP Calls to Facebook Friends
August 5, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Vonage, the respectable face of VoIP, has launched a mobile client allowing iPhone and Android users to make VoIP calls for free, as long as they’re calling a Facebook friend. The Vonage app is available as a free download, and works over Wi-Fi or 3G/4G networks in most countries. It uses existing Facebook accounts, so [...]
Skype Likes to Work with Apple FaceTime Video Chatting
June 9, 2010 By Leave a Comment
An insider at Skype today said the company would like to spread Apple’s newly developed FaceTime video calls through other apps and platforms. The VoIP app developer wants to move the technology past the iPhone 4 to other platforms. The unnamed Pocket-lint source said Skype would “welcome the opportunity” to collaborate with Apple on getting [...]
Skype Group Video Calling Beta Now Available
May 14, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Skype has today released a beta version of its popular VoIP service that includes a preview of its new group video calling. For the time being it’s free, but Skype has admitted that it is part of a new premium service line-up, although no prices have yet been set. Skype’s latest beta, which was detailed [...]
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