AT&T, Verizon, and Vodafone have all recently opened research centers in the San Francisco and Silicon Valley areas as part of a race among carriers to find a fiscally viable way of making free IP based calling a common place feature. With the addition of Spain’s Telefónica, the race is only getting wider. O2, the [...]

T-Mobile launched their Bobsled product earlier this year, though the release didn’t get much press until now. The carrier’s new service allows users to make calls from web Browsers, Android devices, iPhones, or even Facebook profiles. T-Mobile’s press release says that “Bobsled provides users with free calling to any mobile or landline phone number in [...]

Skype’s “newest member of the family” will make Skype the last major vide-chatting provider to bring group video messaging to users. Skype acquired the popular messaging service in August for $85 million. GroupMe provides users with an easy way to chat with groups while on the go. The application will be available across Android, BlackBerry, [...]

If you happen to use Skype for iOS app on your iPhone or iPod Touch, then you need to be aware of how easily your information could be stolen without your knowledge. This includes your entire address book. And all it takes is a simple chat with a friend. The issue was first discovered by [...]

Last Monday, wholesale carrier, LightSquared, announced its partnership with VoX Communications to provide mobile voice and video on LightSquare’s 4G-LTE network. The multi-year agreement is LightSquared’s 14th partnership that will “develop innovative mobile services, devices and applications on LightSquared’s open network,” said LightSquared. VoX Communications is a subsidiary of Pervasip Corp, and is a provider [...]

Skype has been busy with competition from Facebook, Google, Apple, Tango, and a slew of VoIP and video-chatting applications. But the company is building a new app store of its own, calling it an “app directory.” The apps on Skype’s new directory are third-party applications that were built on Skype’s platform. Many include audio and [...]

Skype announced that it will be acquiring a company called GroupMe, which has enabled users to text or make conference calls with a group of people at a time. The $80 million purchase will allow Skype to offer group-chatting features within their software. Skype was once the king in VoIP and video-chatting services, but its [...]

VoX Communications, a wholesale VoIP services provider, announced that it will be providing a VoIP app for Android mobile phones. The company also says that they will soon add a video-chat option to their new application. With so many VoIP options—Skype, Vonage, Tango, Facebook, etc.—we wonder how VoX thinks they will be able to keep [...]

Facebook has been hiding a lot of secrets lately. First, the website withheld information about an iPad app hidden within the official Facebook iPhone app. Now, hackers found a video chat feature in the new Messenger app. The social network recently released the new messaging app, Facebook Messenger, for iPhone and Androids. Soon after the [...]

When Skype and Facebook announced their partnership, everyone labeled it “the best of both worlds.” The integration opened an Internet door, allowing friends to video-chat with friends without having to download additional programs or import contact lists. But the new Skype 5.5 for Windows update contains a highly-critical security flaw that allows video-chat sessions to [...]