I have been sitting on this one for a while to allow appropriate time for stewing but I think it’s about time for it to come out out of the oven. I don’t think we’ll ever see a Facebook phone. There has been recurring speculation in the media about a Facebook phone and while Mark …
Category: Skype
Oct 15 2010
Skype 5 Officially Released
Another quick one for tonight (running the university assignment gauntlet again). Skype 5 has been officially released today and still retains the group video call feature. It is still worth nothing that the feature itself is still in testing despite the software now being out of testing. A new feature has also been incorporated called …
Sep 08 2010
Software Updates Galore!
You could be forgiven for thinking that your computer is one an all out assault with software updates now available for a number of major pieces of software. First up is iTunes 10 which supersedes the prior version and offers some questionably useful functionality with its built in “ping” social networking abilities. One thing to bear in …
Aug 27 2010
Google Adds Telephony to Gmail
Google continues its forward march into unified communications by adding then ability to call telephones from within Gmail. Officially, the service is only available to US residents but us Australians can enable it by: Browsing to the general settings in Gmail, Changing the “Gmail display language” to “English (UK)”, Saving the changes, Changing the “Gmail …
Aug 19 2010
Cross-Platform Instant Messaging – Do We Really Need It?
I have used various forms of instant messaging over the years and as one service has come to the fore others have paled into former shadows of themselves. For me, it all started with ICQ and AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) before MSN Messenger really started to absorb users in the later half of 1999 and the following …
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