Posts Tagged ‘skype’

Skype Integration For Outlook.com Now Available

Microsoft is rolling out new Skype integration within its Outlook.com web based email service, allowing you to chat and ring your contacts directly from your email. The integration requires a browser plugin to work and is being rolled out globally, starting with the UK, and following on in the US ‘in the coming weeks’. Customers [...]

Facebook Messenger for iPhone Adds Free Voice Calling

Facebook has announced an exciting new feature for its Facebook Messenger application. iPhone users in the US and Canada can now make free calls to each other through the Facebook messenger. The social networking giant first tested this free voice calling feature in Canada before rolling it out to US users. Users need not update [...]

Samsung’s 4K Ultra HD Television

The International Consumer Electronic Show (CES) 2013 in Las Vegas has already seen the announcement of various exciting new gadgets, phones, computers, tablets and televisions from many tech giants. One of these announcements that drew a lot of attention came from the world’s largest consumer technology companies, Samsung. Samsung is one of the world’s leading [...]

Text Messaging Turns 20 Years Old Today. Will It Make Another 5 Though?

Yes, 20 years ago today the simple text message (SMS) was born. On 3 December 1992 a 22-year-old British engineer called Neil Papworth used his computer to send the message “Merry Christmas” to an Orbitel 901 mobile phone. Things have moved a long way since then with SMS messaging now part of our daily lives, [...]

Video Calling Your GP

Video calling is something that many of us frequently use, some of us use it to speak family members and friends in faraway locations. Others use is at work where businesses have started to use it to streamline business processes, videoconferencing with colleagues or clients in geographically distributed locations. Recently the NHS has announced plans [...]

Skype For iPhone And iPad Updated – Adds Photo Sharing

Skype, the instant messaging and phone client, has been updated to version 4.1 for the iPhone and iPad bringing photo sharing and performance improvements along with it. Photo Sharing Photo Sharing lets you share photos you’ve got on your iPhone or iPad with other Skype users. There is no limit on the file size you [...]

Group Video Calling With Skype

Skype have a new group video calling promotional video, featuring Scarlet Grey, which shows how the group use Skype to put together a music track while they are all at different locations. Having the band players in different locations play along with each other in time must have been pretty hard to achieve, but it all [...]