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It has now been posted pretty much everywhere around the internet: Microsoft is about to buy Skype for $8.5 billion. This is purely a mobile move in my opinion. Microsoft is behind the times with its smartphone operating system. Windows Mobile fell behind BlackBerry and Symbian, and all were taken by storm when the iPhone [...]

Fring has just launched a new service called fringOut, which gives users of Fring the ability to call phone numbers worldwide for 1 cent per minute. This seems to be a response to Skype’s SkypeOut service, and Google’s “gmail talk” feature. Currently, the mobile version of fringOut is only available for Nokia, but Android and [...]

Everyone else has already covered the Apple music event, but I thought I’d pull out a little tidbit of information that looks promising for VOIP communication. The new iPod touch looks like it’s got everything needed in order to be a fully stand-alone wifi-only VOIP phone without resorting to jailbreaking. With home wifi networks being common, [...]

Skype has released an updated version of their iPhone app, complete with iOS4 features such as multitasking. This seems to be a fixed update, following the error which caused Skype to recently disappear from all iTunes app stores. Now you can make and receive Skype calls on your iPhone seamlessly as you can leave the [...]

It seems that Skype and Fring are not getting along so well today. First, Fring made a claim that Skype was blocking Fring and in a subsequent blog post, called Skype cowards. Now that fring expanded capacity to support the huge demand for video calling for all users, Skype has blocked us from doing so. They are [...]

Something I have suspected since the iPad 3G’s launch but have not been able to confirm has now been verified by another blog: You can activate an iPad 3G SIM card on a $15/mo plan, then put that SIM into an iPhone and run it on a data-only plan. No more $40 restrictive voice plans! [...]

Skype has just announced that an updated version of its iPhone app has been released to the app store and now allows calling over 3G. While this functionality has been available on the iPhone since a January update to the SDK, and while other apps such as Fring have enabled 3G VOIP calling through their [...]

Steve Jobs just jailbroke the iPhone. It only took a few years, but it’s finally here: Multitasking for the iPhone. The single biggest drawback keeping the iPhone and iPod touch squarely out of the VOIP game was the lack of multitasking, and this summer, it will be coming. Today, Apple announced OS 4.0 for the [...]

…and the movement to VOIP over 3G takes yet another step forward. Today, Nokia and Skype jointly announced that Skype would be available on Nokia’s Ovi Store. Skype for Symbian enables Nokia smartphone users to: – Make free Skype-to-Skype calls to other Skype users anywhere in the world* – Save money on calls and texts [...]

Skype and Verizon Wireless have announced that they are joining forces to provide a cheap integrated mobile VOIP solution starting in March of this year. According to the announcement, several BlackBerry and Android phones will come with Skype pre-installed upon purchase from Verizon. All Skype-to-Skype calls will be free, and Skype’s standard low international long distance [...]