What if you could add the phone part to the iPod touch? Thanks to a promising-looking accessory by Yosion, it’s now possible to place voice calls and text people from your music player. The aptly named Yosion Apple Peel 520 looks like a regular rubber bumper, except for a tiny printed circuit board powered by an  Read More →

Fring, the app that managed to bring somewhat awkward video-calling to previous iPhones, has updated to provide proper video-calling over 3G for the iPhone 4. Apple’s FaceTime app for the iPhone has one huge advantage over every other video-calling app: it is built in to every iPhone 4. Any other application requires not just you, the nerd of the family, to download it, but the person on the other end, too. And trust me, they won’t.... 

VOiP and video chat is about to get a lot more transparent. Skype has just announced a new SDK called SkypeKit which is aimed at allowing developers to embed VoIP and video call functionality into their applications and consumer electronics, piggybacking on the Skype network without any requirement for the Skype application to be running. The  Read More →

Filed under: iPhone There’s good news and a little bit (just a little bit) of bad news. Good news first: the iPhone Skype app has been updated to allow for calls using AT&T’s 3G data network. AT&T’s restrictions on cell data usage have evolved over time. Recently, download data caps have been eased, from 10 MB to 20 MB. And since October 2009, VoIP apps have been allowed to use AT&T’s…  Read More →

Plenty of other VoIP apps have managed to work in this functionality since Apple / AT&T started allowing it last year , but the official Skype app has been a notable holdout. Now, two months after Skype started doing 3G calls on Android with Verizon , there’s a 2.0 version of the app for iPhone that brings voice calls over 3G at last. Mobile iPhone calls are free until August, after which you’ll need a “mobile subscription.”... 

A newly circulating rumor potentially sheds new light on that Samsung tablet which was outed earlier this week by Emmanuele Silanesu, National Product and Marketing Manager for Samsung Australia’s IT division. Despite the insinuation by Silanesu that the device will feature an Intel Atom chip with some flavor of Windows on board, this latest rumor turns that whole scenario upside down by claiming the device will be powered by Android. Details... 

Skype users that own a Symbian-powered Nokia handset will have to go the extra mile to install Skype on their handset. As noticed following Wednesday’s debut of Skype in the Ovi store, Skype is reportedly not available for Nokia owners in the US. In response to an email from Venture Beat, Sravanthi Agrawal, a member of Skpye’s corporate communications team, said the following: “Skype has made a decision in the United States to... 

Nokia smartphone owners now have the ability to stay connected with their Skype buddies while on the go. Skype and Nokia have announced that a Skype client for Nokia smartphones based on the Symbian platform is now available. Skype for Symbian works over a Wi-Fi or mobile data connections including GPRS, EDGE and 3G. Best  Read More →

By Gaurav Kheterpal Somewhat old news here, but you should know that Apple has removed all restrictions that prohibited making Video VoIP calls on 3G networks using the iPhone. The iPhone SDK has also been modified in order to give developers access to the Video VoIP APIs. This means you can use either iCall or Fring (which supports Skype) to make Video VoIP calls on your device and the only catch is that your carrier must allow VoIP calls to... 

Filed under: iPhone , App Store , SDK It’s been a long time coming , but the last hurdle is gone — Apple has lifted the restrictions against 3G VoiP calls from the iPhone Software Development Kit . The implications of this are pretty huge. Not only does this mean that VoIP apps like Skype [ iTunes Link ] can now be easily updated to …  Read More →

Clear may be expanding its WiMAX offerings with the select launch of two new feature-rich WiMAX modems targeting home consumers. In addition to WiMAX connectivity, both modems offer VoIP functionality and feature integrated ATA, an emerging trend that obviates the need for an external ATA device for VoIP. The first WiMAX device is the Series G Home Modem, a relatively unknown offering from Taiwanese manufacturer Gemtek. The Series G Home Modem... 

Although Amazon is best known for its online store the e-tailer has also got a steadily growing cloud business platform through Amazon Web Services. If you need cloud computing, storage, database access, or a range of other business focused services then Amazon pretty much has you covered. A job listing that appeared and then got pulled  Read More →

One of our connects hit us with the following: “Heard that our new COO dislikes the @Home service because we make nothing on it. T-Mobile’s considering discontinuing it soon.” Now, to be clear, that’s not UMA we’re talking about but the actual home service that uses two T-Mobile SIM cards to provide you with a “landline” over a specialized router.  Read More →

The implications of this deal are exciting. Google has purchased, in cash, the internet VoIP company Gizmo5 for a cool $30 million. The deal brings a true SIP/VoIP provider into the Google fold — the potential to merge the acquired technology with Google Voice and/or Google Talk is staring us right in the face. Last month there were rumors that perhaps Skype, due to legal issues with its own VoIP technology, might purchase Gizmo5 as a... 

Google Voice users can now place free calls to Alaska and Hawaii, the search giant said Wednesday. Writing on the official Google Voice blog, Google’s Vincent Paquet explained that this announcement rounds up the number of the supported U.S. states to 50. Paquet explained how users can initiate these calls: You can initiate free calls to  Read More →