There has been a significant amount of mutual adaption of technologies between Facebook and Skype of late, and that is set to continue with the latest version of Skype for Mac welcoming the world's largest social network into it's most recent beta release for Mac.
Microsoft has been spilling out a lot of details about its future products at its events. Earlier this week, the company revealed 'Tango' and ‘Apollo’, the next release of Windows Phone 7. Now, at a TechEd conference in New Zealand, the company revealed that future 'Mango' devices would feature a front-facing camera and that Skype would be brought to the platform later on.
There's seldom a shortage of a few dedicated techies on standby ready to dissect and examine the nitty gritty interior of the GUI that the average Joe downloads and installs. A little look under the bonnet of Facebook's new exclusively-IM app for iOS and Android reveals the hallmarks of something even more significant lurking around inside.
If you’re a Mac user and live and breathe Skype, or just use it occasionally to talk to your distant friends, you might be happy to know that the application has been updated to add support for OS X Lion as well as HD video chats. These improvements come in the form of Skype 5.3 which is available to the public today.
A job advertisement on Skype’s official website suggests that the recently bought-by-Microsoft company known for its VoIP services is gearing up for integrating said services into Windows Phone 7.
Today, Skype released an iPad-optimized version of their app; Skype for iPad works over WiFi as well as 3G, has all the features that are on the latest iPhone app: Video chat, voice chat, plain old chatting with text only and the ability to use Skype credits for calling landlines and cellphones just to name the basics.
Since its inception some 8 years ago, Skype has established itself as the market leader in online telecommunications with in excess of two thirds of a billion users worldwide. The company has has seen many significant changes during the course of its life, particularly in the last 12 months in which it has sought integration with the main communication mediums of today such as Facebook.
Facebook has greatly enhanced it's Chat functionality, with three major new features: group chats, video calls and a new look and feel for the feature, making the contacts list more prominent than ever before.
Ever since Skype appeared on the Apple App Store, it immediately turned the iPhone into possibly the most useful VoIP device on the planet. Millions of Skype users could call each other for free, and the addition of Skype-Out meant they could call real phones at reasonable rates.
Google seems to be implementing Skype-like technologies into Chrome, if a recent build of Chromium is any indication. For starters, the inclusion of this technology will allow video and audio chats though Google Talk without the need for a proprietary plugin. But what could this mean for the rest of the industry?
