This is just in! After WSJ report, Kara of AllThingsD has now confirmed that Microsoft has indeed bought Skype for a staggering amount of $8.5 Billion.
An interesting little tidbit coming out of Reuters just now, with reports that both Facebook and Google are contemplating deals with online communication firm, Skype.
Skype has rolled out an interesting update today to their iPhone app in the version 3.0.1. It adds an extra feature to Skype's video capabilities which were first introduced in December last year. The new feature let's you make video calls to TVs, of course, the one's which support Skype (number of Samsung sets do the job).
Now that Skype for iPhone has support for video calling, Lifehacker has gone on to compare the two of the most popular video calling options available for iPhone users, FaceTime and Skype, to see which one has better audio and visual quality.
It looks like Skype is soon going to bring video calling to iPhone and iPod touch. In a help document (pulled now) published on the official Skype site, details were posted about making video calling from Skype for iPhone app to the Skype clients running on other platforms such as Windows and Mac.
Viber is an iOS application that lets you make free phone calls to other devices that have Viber. You can call any Viber user anywhere in the world, for free. Viber is available to install for free on your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch, all you have to do is provide your phone number meaning, unlike Skype, no registration is necessary.
Its finally here! Skype app for iPhone and iPod touch has finally been updated to support the new multitasking feature in iOS 4. With this new feature, you can now receive calls and instant messages with the app minimized in the multitasking tray.
Its finally here ! The newly released Skype 2.0 for iPhone enables the much awaited VoIP calls over 3G network. This feature though will only be free to use until August 2010, after which a small fee (via in-app purchase perhaps?) will apply. Carrier charges of course will cost extra. The official change log of Skype 2.0 is as follows.
Skype on iPhone includes tons of features, but unfortunately it lacks Push Notification feature which is introduced with iPhone 3.0. This makes the app pretty much useless for most users. The lack of Push Notification support basically defeats much of the purpose of having Skype on iPhone because unlike other phones, iPhone cannot do multitasking which means the app wont notify you when someone is calling.
The following steps will help you setup Skype to run in the background so that you can receive incoming calls from your Skype contacts even when the phone is switched to sleep mode.
According to Apple, Multitasking or running apps in the background causes security problems and it negatively impacts battery life so they introduced Push Notification System. Here’s our top pick for the apps that can “Push” notifications.
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