ICT magazine

Eastern Europeans should strive to present a more modern face to visitorsIMAGINE that you are attending a conference (call it Agenda 2010) in the capital city (call it Klow) of a generic ex-communist country (call it Ruritania). The discussion will be mostly about the present and the future. After a ...

Nokia has added a Skype app for handsets running the latest version of Symbian, as a free download in its Ovi Store. Ovi currently sees 1.5 million downloads a day, and Nokia hopes Skype will make that number climb. - Nokia is the latest company to promote ...

According to Verizon Wireless and Skype, the companies are going to join their forces in order to install Skype to nine BlackBerry and Android phones on the Verizon network. Such news was announced at the Mobile World Congress show in Barcelona. A mobile version of Skype will appear in the ...

Verizon Wireless and Skype announced a partnership that will deliver Skype mobile services to Verizon customers with data plans. Skype will be initially available to nine Verizon 3G smartphones, including the Motorola Droid and several BlackBerry models, before being offered more widely. - Verizon Wireless and Skype ...

VoxOx has baked a Universal Translator directly into is Web communications platform, providing foreign language messaging translation for text messages, instant messaging, e-mail and messaging communications via Facebook, MySpace and Twitter. The neat trick here is that only one person need be using VoxOx to have a conversation that is ...

During my trip to The Fortress of Solitude for November to avoid the blogosphere I had a friend ask about the best way to record a phone interview. It was more strategy than tactics and Tim Street called me out for shoddy workmanship. Since I had begged off on blogging ...

Skype announced that a Skype for iPhone app that can place calls over 3G networks is coming soon, now that Apple has changed its SDK. While iCall already offers one, Skype says its waiting until it can offer CD-quality sound, along with other benefits for customers. - ...

Skype has made Miles Flint, former president of Sony Ericsson Mobile, its new chairman, and former Thomson Reuters exec David Gurle the vice president of its business unit. The new placements arrive in time for Skype to begin deploying video calls on HDTVs. - Skype has named ...

Skype announced that high-definition video calling will be coming to televisions by the middle of this year. Partners Panasonic and LG will release HDTVs embedded with Skype software, as well as Webcams optimized for Skype video calls. - Skype announced Jan. 5 that its popular video service ...

Skype is coming to Nokia smartphones, at least in a beta version. Skype announced Dec. 10 that its ready to release Skype for Symbian, with support for additional handsets to arrive with the real deal. - Skype announced Dec. 10 that it is releasing a limited beta version ...

Ah, Skype. This Thanksgiving, families across America used the video chat service to ineptly attempt to converse with far-flung relatives. (At this particular writer's house, there was a whole lot of "Can you hear me now? Wave if you can hear me! HELLO?" going on.) But ...

Even though I said I was taking November off, I’m back again. A friend asked me about recording a phone interview and I wrote so much that I thought it would be a shame not to get a post out of it too. The Phone Tree Option in Order of Sound ...

Google Nov. 12 confirmed that it had acquired Gizmo5 for an undisclosed sum. Gizmo5 makes Web-based calling software for mobile phones and computers. Specifically, it provides a Web-based VOIP client that lets users make phone calls over the Internet, similar to programs such as Skype. Some speculate Gizmo5 will evolve ...

eBay settles lawsuits with Joltid and Joost in a $1.9 billion deal that gives Skype ownership over all software previously licensed from Joltid and paves the way for a group of investors to acquire the majority of the company. Joltid and Skype founders Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis, who had ...

VoxOx from TelCentris lets users make calls from PC to PC, as well as from PCs to landlines and mobile phones. The Web application, geared to compete with Skype and Google Voice, also enables video, instant messaging and two-way text messaging, file sharing and social networking into one platform. Unlike ...

Skype's founders have asked a U.S. federal court to prevent Index Ventures and one of its partners from further participating in the proposed $1.9 billion acquisition of the Web phone service, according to a court filing. - WILMINGTON, Delaware (Reuters) - Skype's founders have asked ...

I mentioned yesterday that there were rumors flying that AT&T could be ready to allow VoIP over its 3G network with apps like Google Voice and Skype. Previously VoIP apps on the iPhone were only working over Wi-Fi connections. AT&T officially informed Apple and the FCC yesterday that it would ...

In a reversal of its previous network management policy, AT T decides to stop blocking VOIP calls on the iPhone that bypass AT T's own voice service. The decision opens the door for the Skype iPhone application, which AT T previously provided connectivity only over Wi-Fi. - ...

In a reversal of its previous network management policy, AT T decides to stop blocking VOIP calls on the iPhone that bypass AT T's own voice service. The decision opens the door for the Skype iPhone application, which AT T previously provided connectivity only over Wi-Fi. - ...

When Apple denied the Google Voice app it set off a storm of controversy in the industry. Rumors circulating now claim that tomorrow AT&T could announce that it will allow Skype and Google Voice on its network via the iPhone reports the Washington Post. One source claiming to be close to ...