VoIP Technology - Call Phones by Computer

Skype™ for sale

2009-09-02T16:23:00.002+02:00

In the 2005 eBay bought Skype™ for the "cheap" amount of about 4 billions dollars principally to make easy the interaction between its users of the popular online auction, now, considering the poor achievement for this use, eBay want to sell Skype.
The price is about 2 billions dollars, it seems that the purchase has been done by a group of private investor of which for now has not been revealed the identity.

A trojan that record Skype™ calls

2009-08-31T15:20:00.000+02:00

Symantec named it Peskyspy, it's the new trojan that threaten the popular Skype™ (just the Windows version), it doesn't create any kind of damage to the software, it just intercept Skype™ VoIP calls, record them into MP3 format, crypt them and finally send them to the author's server.
The author of this trojan made available the source code and some video tutorial to learn to use its creation, they are available on his blog.

Skype™ 4.1 improve the audio/video quality and introduce the screen sharing

2009-07-06T15:07:00.002+02:00

The new versione of Skype™, the 4.1, improve the audio/video quality of calls and introduce a new feature: the screen sharing between two Skype users, practically you can show your Windows desktop to another users and vice versa, to not confuse it with the remote desktop function.
To download and install Skype 4.1, visit the official website.

Free SkypeIn numbers

2009-07-03T17:17:00.003+02:00

Skype™ offer under payment a SkypeIn number that allow to be contacted from landline phones and cellphone to the own Skype contact; starting from some days ago, it's available a service, not owned by Skype, that offer a free SkypeIn number, Ring2Skype need just a simple and fast registration: a valid email address, a personal password (it could be different from the one used in Skype), the username of the Skype account that you want to associate with the number and, obviously, the country and the region for the allocation of the personal telephone number.
To be contacted over Skype from a landline phone or a cellphone you should provide the number with its extension, after composing the number, a voice will tell you to type the extension, at this time the call will be forwarded to Skype, that must be open and online.

Go Jajah, low-cost international VoIP calls by your cellphone

2009-06-30T16:49:00.000+02:00

Go Jajah is a new VoIP service dedicated to cellphones, this revolutionary service is useful to make calls to international numbers allowing to spend as a national call.
How does it works? Go Jajah assign a local number to your international contact's numbers located in your cellphone address book so everytime you make a call to these numbers Go Jajah deviate the call over the Internet to contact the receiver phone, and the cost is like a local call, for calls made all around the world.
For more informations and to use the software, visit the official site.

Flying VoIP (VoIP on airplanes)

2009-05-25T17:48:00.001+02:00

The airline Virgin America has equipped its airplanes with WiFi Internet connection, Skype™ has been successfully used to make a live videocall with a famous american TV show.
The service offered by Virgin America is not for free and the fee is variable from about 6 dollars to about 13 dollars.
The videocalls by Skype™ are blocked by default to maintain a quiet and restful cabin environment, anyhow you can use the GoGo service to interface Skype and use just text messages.

Skype™ for the iPhone

2009-04-01T19:18:00.004+02:00

It's finally available the software to videocall by VoIP for the iPhone, the popular Skype™ is ready to use for the factotum cellphone by Apple; Skype™ for the iPhone is freely downloadable from the official website, or from the App Store website.
At the momento you can make calls by Skype™ just via a wi-fi broadband connection using the wireless connection integrated into the iPhone.
Skype for the iPhone is compatible also with the iPod Touch (the 2nd generation one).
For more informations, visit the Skype™ website.

P.S.: this is not an April fool's joke!

Dream, the first Android phone in Italy

2009-03-26T15:25:00.006+01:00

Dream is the first HTC cellphone sold in Italy by Telecom Italia showing the new Google Android operating system.
Between the main features we can find:

Connections: UMTS, HSDPA, Wi-Fi, GPS, HSUPA
Quad Band: 850/900/1800/1900 Mhz
MP3 Player
Touchscreen TFT-LCD of 3.2" (65K colors)
Wi-Fi LAN, bluetooth 2.0 (only with audio devices)
3,2 megapixels Digital camera with autofocus and 4X zoom
1 GB Micro SD Card, 192 MB of internal memory
QWERTY keyboard, integrated GPS, digital compass and motion sensor
Dimensions: 117,7x55,7x17,1 mm.
Weight: 158 gr.

For more informations and prices visit this page (italian language).

Skype™ open its SIP Protocol

2009-03-24T15:36:00.003+01:00

Skype™ launch its beta version of SIP (Session Initiation Protocol), to allow companies and offices that own a PBX, a telephone exchange like Asterisk, to use the cheap rates of Skype™ to call telephones all over the world, obviously the Skype-To-Skype calls, by the SIP protocol, are free.
In a near future it will be possible to knock down almost completely the costs of normal phone calls, when most companies, offices and business activity will be equipped with easy and practical systems of voice communication by Internet, without the need to use a phone provider, if not for the broadband connection.
A defect is that the dispatch of normal fax is not still supported by the SIP protocol and it still need the use of a normale telephone line, even if soon, supposedly, the fax will be substituted by the Certified E-mail.

End of VoIP on the PSP

2009-03-24T14:41:00.003+01:00

Starting from 31st of march, it will be no more available the Go!Messenger service over the PSP; the cause?

"Although it proved a popular concept, achieving a significant number of registrations, it didn't gain the number of regular users that British Telecom and Sony Computer Entertainment Europe were aiming for."

Currently it seems that there isn't an alternative software to Go!Messenger, we wait for possible future progresses.

Google Voice, Skype™ new rival

2009-03-17T17:32:00.003+01:00

In 2007 Google acquired Grand Central and start the Google Voice service to provide VoIP communication services starting from the U.S. to arrive all over the world, Google Voice will be soon available in every country and it will be a new rival of Skype™.
Google Voice will give us free or low cost phone calls and SMS sending from landlines phones and cellphones.

More informations about Google Voice: http://www.grandcentral.com.

If you own a Gmail account, you can also try the new VoIP communication service called Gmail Voice, with high definition audio and video; official site: http://mail.google.com/videochat.

ooVoo, Videoconference and VoIP Up To 6 Users

2009-02-04T15:20:00.003+01:00

ooVoo it's a new VoIP software and it have a special feature that others similar software don't have, that is to perform videoconference up to six simultaneous users, this means that it's possibile to display the video and audio of six users at the same time.
ooVoo also allow you to perform free VoIP calls to landlines phones and cellphones (at the moment only in the U.S. and Canada).

Another interesting features is that you can record video messages with ease by way of your webcam and send them to other users/friends/relatives via the same program, it's also possibile to add a variety of special video effects.
If you buy the ooVoo Super version you can record your video conversations too.

ooVoo it's freely distributed and is downloadable from the official website, available for Windows systems and Mac.

Skype™ 4 Final Version

2009-02-03T20:54:00.004+01:00

Today 3rd of February has been released the final version 4.0.0.206 of the popular VoIP software Skype™.
Between the new features we can find a renewed graphical interface, a better supporto for HD webcams, audio and video quality improved and added the possibility to answer and to switch from a call to another with easiness, organize every call in the main window or use different windows for every active call.
Just check out the new version and touch with your hand the new features of this useful and diffuse VoIP software.

To download Skype™ 4 for free just refer to the official site

Skype™ 4 Beta 3

2008-12-19T14:28:00.003+01:00

While waiting for the definitive version 4, it's available for download the beta 3 release of the famous VoIP software Skype™.
To download it, visit this page.

Nimbuzz: Chat & VoIP for PC, Cellphones and iPhone

2008-12-03T17:31:00.000+01:00

Nimbuzz is a instant messaging software developed for PC and cellphones, including iPhone, that allow to communicate with the contacts of: Skype, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, AIM and Google Talk.
Besides, it's possible to use the VoIP account to make normal phone calls to landlines phones and cellphones.
For more informations and features, refer to the Nimbuzz official website.
The iPhone version of Nimbuzz is available on the App Store.

SkypeIn Telephone Number Available Also For Italy

2008-12-03T16:19:00.000+01:00

From a few days are available also for Italy the SkypeIn telephone numbers, practically you can buy a telephone number to allow the reception of normal phone calls from landlines phone and cellphones to your Skype™. Who will call you will pay the fee of a normal phone call, the cost depends by the phone provider used.
The costs of SkypeIn number are 18 USD for 3 months and 60 USD for 12 months.
For more details and infos, refer to the Skype™ Shop.
The SkypeIn number however is included in the three Skype™ offers: Unlimited Country, Unlimited Europe, Unlimited World.

Google Android & Mobile VoIP Mobile by iSkoot

2008-10-24T17:45:00.000+02:00

Arrives on the USA market the first cellphone that show off the new open-source operating system by Google, named Android.
The cellphone is the T-Mobile G1, on the official website there are the presentation and the descriptions of its all features, with pictures and detailed movies.
iSkoot, software house that co-operate and bring the features of Skype™ on cellphones and produce free VoIP software for many cellphones brands and models, presents its new software dedicated to Google Android, that will be soon availabe in the Android Market.
Unfortunately it's not still possible to make VoIP calls using the Wi-Fi connection of the above cellphone, but only using the GSM connection of your service provider.

Skype™ On Cellphone

2008-10-08T20:27:00.000+02:00

Skype™ release now its popular VoIP software also for a lot of cellphones like Nokia, Motorola, Sony Ericsson and Samsung, the complete list of compatible models is on the Skype™ website, in the download page.
The download happen simply inserting your cellphone number, then you will receive an SMS containing the download link for the application.
If your cellphone integrate a Wi-Fi connection, you can use Skype™ with every available Wi-Fi LAN.

Skype™ 3.8.0.180

2008-10-03T15:31:00.000+02:00

While we are waiting for the definitive version 4, it comes out the 3.8.0.180 of the popular Skype™, downloadable from the official site, it brings new upgrades, like the support for high quality video with the Logitech Vision Pro webcam and upgrades for Internet Explorer and Firefox plugins.

Asterisk and Skype™ Together

2008-09-30T16:05:00.000+02:00

Asterisk and Skype™ finally will work together, in the next version 4 of Skype™ will be implemented the code to manage and interface it into the famous and free software Asterisk, software that allow to create a "telephone exchange" for companies with a ridicolous cost.
Will this Skype™ move take the VoIP mastership also in companies, in addition to private users?

For more informations about Asterisk PBX software...
Asterisk official site: http://www.asterisk.org

ASUS Videophone

2008-09-22T14:20:00.001+02:00

ASUS presents the first videophone Skype™ certified, the videophone ASUS AiGuru SV1 Skype is equipped with a 7 inch color LCD monitor, a 640x480 pixels webcam, a microphone and a speaker, the connection to the internet it's by Wi-Fi 802.11 b and g or by the classic cabled LAN 10/100 Mbit.
In summary it is a good product that doesn't need a pc connection to work, in fact it's enough to connect it to a wireless or cabled router, it offer all the benefits of Skype™ phone calls and free calls from and to Skype™ users; it will be commercialized starting from the next october.

Even The New iPod Will Have Its VoIP

2008-09-14T16:39:00.000+02:00

Even the new born in Apple house, the well-known multimedia portable player iPod, available on the App Store and very similar to his brother iPhone, will have its VoIP functionality, thanks to the new earphones with microphone it will be possible to make VoIP calls by the TruPhone application and the integrated Wi-Fi LAN (802.11b/g), TruPhone is available for free on the App Store.

Solicall 1.5.0 Implement Acoustic Echo Cancellation

2008-09-02T14:40:00.000+02:00

The new version of SoliCall, released the last August, implement the new service of acoustic echo cancellation, I also remind that this is a excellent software for the recording of audio calls, SoliCall is a free software for private use.

Download at this page

New Wi-Fi Standard: 802.11r

2008-09-02T12:58:00.002+02:00

Good news for mobile VoIP, the IEEE announce the new 802.11r standard that allows the change of connection between Wi-Fi Access Points without loss of connections or delays in reconnections, just 50 milliseconds for the roaming between one access point and another one, positive situation for whom that use mobile VoIP, no more interrupted calls while you're moving, no more lost words or sentences during a conversation.

SkypePhone Second Chapter

2008-08-28T16:31:00.000+02:00

The second edition of the famous cell phone with Skype™ preinstalled is already available in the United Kingdom, the new SkypePhone S2 distributed by Tre will be available starting from the next September also in Italy, many important differences among its predecessor, first of all the way to connect to a HSDPA network and take advantage of, where available, the speed of 7.2 Mbit and so use it also like a broadband modem with a computer.
The integrated camera has been upgraded with a 3.2 Megapixels sensor, the LCD monitor is a 2.2" with a resolution of 240x320 pixels, also the software and the graphical interface has been renewed.
More info here: http://www.3skypephone.com