Archive for July, 2006
Tuesday, July 25th, 2006
New Skype Preview for Mac out, with video
Skype has released a new version for the Mac, this time including video. Skype for Mac with Video is currently a preview version. ‘Preview’ means that we’re still working on it and have only tested it under specific conditions, therefore we can’t guarantee the quality users on different hardware or operating systems will experience. There [...]
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Tuesday, July 25th, 2006
OSCON Talk on configuring Asterisk
The slides from Brian Capouch’s talk at OSCON “Asterisk Inside and Out” are now available. The slides are available here.
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Tuesday, July 25th, 2006
Free phone-to-phone calls via VOIPBuster
Some readers of this blog might not be aware of the wonderful service VOIPBuster offers on their webpage. Simply enter the number of the phone you would like to call, and the number of the phone you want to call from and Voipbuster will call them both. This works for international calls to landlines in [...]
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Monday, July 24th, 2006
Skype makes $1.56 per user per year
Voipwiki breaks the Skype numbers out of the recent EBay quarterly report. They show that Skype growth slowed over the past quarter (26% vs 42% for the previous quarter) but grew the number of registered users from 95 million to 113 million, while increasing revenue per user to $1.56 per user per year. It’s somewhat [...]
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Monday, July 24th, 2006
GTalk only had 44,000 users during June?
Techcruch reports on Comscore’s Instant Messenger marketshare report, focusing on the low number reported for GTalk. However, they appear to be reporting on the usage of the GChat client application only, which would mean that actual GTalk (via GMail) usage would be significantly higher. Google appears to be trying to disrupt the IM market by [...]
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Monday, July 24th, 2006
Gizmo allows free calls to landlines and some mobiles
Gizmo now allows free calls to landlines in over 60 countries and free calls to mobiles nearly 20 countries. The list of countries where calls to mobiles are allowed includes the US, Canada and the UK, but also countries such as San Marino and Vatican City. The list of landlines enabled countries is more extensive, [...]