According to Mike Arrington at TechCrunch, Google has begun testing a Skype-like Google Voice desktop app. The new app uses VoIP technology that was acquired by Google when it bought out Gizmo5 late last year. That means you could soon be taking calls to your Google Voice number, right on your desktop. It’s only an [...]
If you’re looking to make VoIP calls on your Android phone, London-based Truphone might have the app for you. Truphone just released an update to its Android app that makes it compatible with Google’s Nexus One. It now works on five Android devices. In stark contrast to the VoIP situation on the iPhone, where developers [...]
Google Voice and Google Chrome are two great tastes that taste great together, thanks to a new version of the Google Voice extension for Chrome. The extension gives you quick toolbar access to Voice features, including dialing, voicemail transcripts and SMS. What’s more, phone numbers on webpages become click-to-call links, so you don’t even have [...]
Google’s developers are just too clever and impatient to wait for Apple to open its arms and invite Google Voice into the app store. Regardless of what or who was ultimately behind the rejection of Google Voice, it’s a moot point now. Since they’ve already got solid HTML5-powered versions of GMail and Google Reader which [...]
With all the hype around Apple’s release of the iPad, other big Apple announcements have slipped by without the attention they deserve. For example, Apple’s updated iPhone SDK allows VoIP calls over 3G. That’s a pretty big deal for Skype users, who can now use VoIP like a regular phone, without being tethered to areas [...]
Last week Apple changed began allowing third party applications to make VoIP calls over 3G. What that means is that you can make a telephone call over the internet using a wireless broadband connection. The upshot is that you could theoretically use an application like Skype to make free or cheap phone calls while eating [...]
Verizon Wireless has announced that Hell has frozen over starting next month wireless customers with compatible phones will be able to use Skype’s mobile software to make VoIP (Voice over IP) calls over Verizon’s 3G wireless broadband network. In other words, you can call people on your cellphone without using any voice minutes… you’ll just [...]
Skype has removed the download links for Skype and Skype Lite for Windows Mobile devices. If you’ve already got Skype loaded up on your phone or PDA, you can keep using it. But according to Skype’s FAQ, the company felt the Windows Mobile version was “not offering the best possible Skype experience.” Of course, pulling [...]
While the Skype experience on Windows Mobile handsets was determined to be “unsatisfactory,” phones running Nokia’s SymbianOS (more than 200 million worldwide) now have access to the immensely popular VOIP app. In an official blog posting, Skype’s Peter Parks reports that the app is now available for download in Nokia’s Ovi store and directly from [...]
Every time Skype for iPhone gets an update, there’s a glimmer of hope that we’ll be able to make calls over 3G again. Apple has re-opened the possibility, but hasn’t yet approved the app that makes it possible. While the new Skype 1.3 might not be the golden ticket to dialing without wi-fi, it does [...]
