Posted on November 5th, 2010 by Joy Schwabach
Making free video conferencing calls on Skype used to be annoying, because you couldn’t include Mac users in your group. Now Skype has released a version that corrects that. Get everybody in the picture. The new version, Skype for Mac 5.0, has a mini toolbar that sits atop any photos, web pages or documents you have open. It lets you do instant messaging offline. Finally, Skype has a new contest: The prize is a $1,500 gift certificate at the Apple store. Visit bit.ly/dm6AAe to enter. More info on video conference calls at the Skype blog.
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Posted on October 14th, 2010 by Joy Schwabach
Call your Facebook friends from within Skype, with the new version 5.0.
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Posted on August 23rd, 2010 by Joy Schwabach
VonageMobil lets you call Facebook friends from your smartphone.
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Posted on July 21st, 2010 by Joy Schwabach
Check email and do other tasks during your Skype calls.
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Posted on April 21st, 2010 by Joy Schwabach
Our friend Margie is stuck in France, because of the volcanic ash. Hopefully, she can connect to a WiFi hotspot, but a lot of these aren’t free. You have to get out a credit card and fiddle with numbers. Skype is offering free connections this week through a feature called “Skype Access.” You can connect to the Internet in over 100,000 hotspots around the world starting today through Friday, April 23 — including most international airports. That’s a stingy offer, but it’s a good way to try out Skype Access, which is a new feature that lets anyone pay for WiFi access using Skype credit, which you buy in advance at Skype.com. Just select an available public access WiFi network from […]
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Posted on March 23rd, 2010 by Joy Schwabach
On Thursday, Skype is coming out with a mobile version on certain cell phones using Verizon Wireless. This means you can make free calls and text messages to other Skype users.
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Posted on February 11th, 2010 by Joy Schwabach
AT&T may be getting out of the landline business eventually. Meanwhile, the number of Skype users keeps growing.
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Posted on January 10th, 2010 by Joy Schwabach
The new high-definition TVs will make video phone calls as well.
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Posted on July 21st, 2009 by Joy Schwabach
Google Voice has a free service that lets you select a phone number people can use to reach you on any of your phones.
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Posted on April 27th, 2009 by Joy Schwabach
The folks at Skype, the company that provides free Internet phone calling all over the world, calculate that if businesses cut out 20 percent of their travel, they would reduce air pollution by 22 million tons of carbon dioxide a year.
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