Vonage offers free mobile apps for global talking and texting service

Vonage has released new smartphone apps that offer free global text and voice calls between users 

Available for iPhone and Android phones and offered free from the iTunes App Store and the Android Marketplace, Vonage Mobile lets you call and text for free to other users who have downloaded the App in over 90 countries utilizing Wi-Fi/3G and 4G networks worldwide. Unlike Skype, the App does not need to be running in the background for it to ring, thus conserving battery life.

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SourceCode: TELUS strikes deals with RDIO, Skype to enhance its services

Telus' HTC Status gets you Google and Facebook on one device

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

TELUS held a Back To School Event for the media today to showcase its latest services, recent handsets as well as introduce some of the new service offerings including tighter integration with VoIP giant Skype as well as hot new social cloud music service Rdio.

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Facebook to offer group chat messaging and video via Skype

Poking is so 2009. Facebook just introduced some new group chat and video functionality that will make the already popular social network even more indispensable. Facebook has slowly replaced personal and corporate webpages, it has also displaced email and instant messaging as the primary way friends like to connect real-time now it gets even more immersive.

Facebook users who are using the chat service can now have group chats with multiple users simultaneously. Facebook has also integrated video via Skype right from their Facebook interface, the service will roll out today but anyone wanting to try out the video aspect can check it out here.

No software installation is necessary and the  Facebook says it currently has 750 million users sharing 4 billion things every day, Skype hosts 300 million minutes per month of video calling. These new features are for the web version of Facebook and will not yet be part of their mobile clients.

Facebook released the following statement on their website, "For those of us who have been working on this, it's particularly exciting to bring video calling to over 750 million people. We're making this available in over 70 different languages, so friends can stay in touch all over the world."

Breaking News: Microsoft buys Skype for $8.5 Billion

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Microsoft has acquired internet telephony service Skype for a whopping US $8.5 Billion. A Wall Street Journal report  early today confirmed the Redmond software giant had beaten the likes of Facebook, Google and Cisco who were vying to purchase Skype from its previous owner eBay.

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Skype enables video calling on 3G and WiFi

Skype users on camera-loaded iOS devices can now make video calls. It's true! This year-end gift for iOS devices is a great upgrade and even overcomes the Wi-Fi only, iOS and Mac only limitation of Apple's own FaceTime app. The above video celebrates this video calling breakthrough by showing people dancing spastically in front on their iPhone 4's. It doesn't really explain the technology but hey, we're not complaining. Thanks a bunch Skype!

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Breaking News: Free Google phone calls from GMail

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Google expanded GMail's functionality by adding the ability to make calls directly from the mail interface. The cloud based service is available to customers in Canada and the US and gives you unlimited free calling to those to countries for the remainder of 2010. There are also competitive international rates that rival that of Skype. GMail subscribers just need to sign into their accounts and follow the installation steps or mosey on to http://www.google.com/chat/voice.

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