Google have been working on adding click-to-call functionality to augment their lead in the online advertising market having previously made announcements to allow Google Talk to interoperate with Skype. Yesterday they made the feature public, making it easy for a potential customer to click on an advertisers number and call them.
The interesting part of [...]

Skype recently released 2.5 Beta for Mac OS X, which included a few new features including the ability to send SMS to your contact’s mobile phones.  I really like this feature because it is so cheap compared to my normal rate as set by contract.
Setting it up is fairly easy.  You are able to send [...]

The Canadian government is going over the top of the CRTC (Candian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission), the equivalent of the US FCC, and ordering them to start deregulating Internet telephony services. The telecom industry in Canada was deregulated in the early 1990s. The repeat performance for IP telephony will mean lots of competition, probably lots [...]

Not everyone may feel that there’s value in some types of mobile video calling , but video calling on a desktop has loads of value for lots of people. I know I’m generalizing, but I think you know what I mean. Now consider all these dating sites out there that are currently leveraging the social [...]

Good for you Skype!  Development on Mac releases seems to have picked up speed, as evidenced by today’s release of Skype 2.5 Beta for Mac OS X.
So what’s new in this release?  Well now us Mac users can send SMS messages to our friends, a feature that has been in the Windows version since the [...]