A bunch of Nokia news hit today as it’s Mobile World Congress time. In fact, if you’re interested in the new phones and product announcements, be sure to head over to Nokia Conversations. My eyes went to another announcement today as Skype has announced the availability of Skype for Windows Phone. The beta application allows…
CES brings together all of the major players in consumer electronics and services. Skype doesn’t want to be left out of all the hubbub and today announced some big-time news for Luxembourg-based Internet telephony Company. First of all, the company is acquiring the popular mobile-based Internet video company Qik. Qik is a service that lets…
Nimbuzz, a well respected player in the mobile VoIP arena, has had some amazing success in the last few years. The application and corresponding telephony service is available on many mobile platforms including iPhone, Symbian and Android. One major selling point for Nimbuzz is the fact that it allows access to the Skype service as…
Ringio is a great service for small businesses that I’ve written about before. The Virginia-based Internet telephony firm is a great service that any small or medium size business can utilize to give their phone presence an extra push. With call-center like functions such as automatic attendant, intelligent call routing, and Google CRM sync, Ringio…
I have had the Nokia N900 for a few months now, and as I’ve said before, one asset to this phone is the ability to make Skype calls (all via data) to anyone in the world via Skype. Today, the PR 1.2 Firmware was released to UK N900 users. We U.S. users are not getting…
This week at DemoSpring 2010, Rebtel, a veteran in the VoIP world, launched an innovative VoIP application on the Android platform. Rebtel is a Sweden-based company that is dedicated to providing very low-cost calls to more than 50 countries world wide. In essence, Rebtel offers super cheap calls to third-world countries, aimed squarely at ex-pats…
As of today, Verizon Wireless customers with certain smartphones and data plans can use Skype Mobile on their devices, as eluded to on Tuesday. To provide more insight, I made a video available of the process and capabilities of the new Skype client. This app is awesome!
Yesterday, I was talking to pal Andy Abramson via Skype video chat. Andy said it was too bad I was on my MacBook Pro. I asked him why and he said it’s because he had a prototype of a new webcam from the folks at Freetalk. I switched the video call over to my Windows…
I’ve been using the Nokia N900 now for a month or so and I am finding so many cool uses for this phone. You see, I do a lot of Skype calling throughout the day because I work with folks up and down the West coast of the U.S. and folks in the UK quite…
Truphone, a very useful and effective mobile calling service I’ve written about many times before, is announcing the availability of their Truphone Anywhere service in Australia. The new partnership and availability down under is via a partnership with Optus, a Australian mobile network operator. Truphone Anywhere is a unique service where a person can buy…