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Skype and Fring Go to War Over VOiP Video Calls

By anthony | Published: July 12, 2010
VOiP clients Fring and Skype are engaged in a war of words over video calling and alleged service blocks. Of course, the real losers are the end users. Fring is a relatively small player when compared to Skype, but it has been successful in large part because the service is interoperable with other VOiP services, including GoogleTalk, SIP and Skype. The fact that you can make Fring-to-Skype calls within the Fring app has been a real boon for platforms that either have limited Skype support or for users who want to take advantage of some of Fring’s other features
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Google Voice Leaves Beta, Now Open to Everyone [News]

By anthony | Published: June 22, 2010
Until today, Google Voice was a neat service you needed to be invited into. Now Google's thrown open the doors, letting in anyone (in the U.S.) wanting One Number to Rule Them All—or just web-based voicemail on your current number. More
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Make Free VoIP Calls from Google Voice [How To]

By melissa | Published: June 22, 2010
Google Voice is great, but it isn't an entirely free voice-over-internet service if you have to pay a phone bill to use it. With a few tweaks, though, you can make completely free internet phone calls with Google Voice. Here's how.
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Verizon Offers Contract-Free Option for FiOS

By anthony | Published: June 22, 2010
One of the most infuriating parts of buying broadband Internet service is getting stuck in a 2-year contract even if you’ve never tried the service out before. Today, Verizon moved to eliminate that issue for its FiOS service by introducing a contract-free plan. Like other broadband providers, Verizon incentivizes new customers to sign up by offering reduced prices for the first several months of service. Normally those “savings” only come with a contract, but Verizon now offers the discounted rates on its TV/phone/Internet bundles for a full year without any contract, equipment included
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Vodburner Records and Edits Skype Video Chats [Downloads]

By admin | Published: June 17, 2010
Windows only: Vodburner is an application that will record your Skype video chats and conferences, with the capability to edit the recorded video. The program saves those important business teleconferences or personal conversations with friends for future reference. More
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Google to Integrate Google Voice with Gmail [RUMOR]

By melissa | Published: June 10, 2010
Google is testing a new feature in Gmail, in which a phone icon opens a special Gmail chat window consisting of a dialpad, contact search, credit balance and a call button. The feature is not yet publicly available. A couple of weeks ago we asked whether Google was building a Skype competitor after Google acquired VoIP company Global IP Solutions (GIPS).
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Gmail May Offer Free VoIP Calling with Google Voice [Gmail]

By melissa | Published: June 10, 2010
Google's been really quiet with its future plans for its Google Voice service, which remains invite-only at the moment, but it looks like full internet telephone calling through Gmail is in the cards. The super-dedicated Google Operating System blog gets an anonymous tip and screenshot showing a Gmail chat window with all the tools you'd need to call over Google Voice included: dialpad, contact picker, credit tally, and call button. The TechCrunch and Download Squad blogs had Google sources telling them in April that a Google Voice desktop client was under internal testing, so it's not too far-fetched to believe Google would also slide voice calling into Gmail. At the moment, Google Voice can still make free VoIP calls with Gizmo5 , but accounts for that Google-purchased service have been suspended.
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Gmail Makes it Easier to Push Your Friends onto Video Chat [Gmail]

By anthony | Published: June 9, 2010
The Gmail team admits in a blog post that options for video, voice, and group chat were "curiously tucked away" in the lower-left corner, so they've taken steps to fix it. A new chat interface, pictured here, makes a video or voice chat much easier to activate, and if a friend lacks the proper plug-in for video chat, you can simply press a button to push a download link to them to get them up and running. And if you were looking around, they've also moved the "Off the Record" and other helpful features to the new "Actions" menu. [ Official Gmail Blog ] More
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Skype for iPhone Now Supports 3G Calling

By melissa | Published: May 30, 2010
There’s good news and bad news. The good: Skype 2.0 for iPhone [iTunes link] lets you make calls over 3G. The bad: After August, you’ll need to pay for the feature. That’s right: The most yearned-for feature of Skype for iPhone, making calls over 3G , is finally here. The new app just landed in the app store, and by all accounts the 3G calls hold up fairly well
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Skype for iPhone Now Supports 3G Calling

By admin | Published: May 30, 2010
There’s good news and bad news. The good: Skype 2.0 for iPhone [iTunes link] lets you make calls over 3G. The bad: After August, you’ll need to pay for the feature.
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