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Skype for iPad Hands-On

Only a month after it was supposed to be released, Skype for the iPad tablet has arrived inside the App Store.  It even continued its difficult journey by launching this morning, disappearing and then re-emerging a few hours later!  Now the VoIP app is finally here, has it been worth the wait?  To find out, [...]

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Skype for iPad Coming on the 5th July?

With the release of the iPad 2 with its twin cameras, and the introduction of FaceTime, it was only a matter of time before VoIP experts Skype took a shot at adapting their own video-chat service for the tablet too. You can grab Skype for the iPhone right now, and it looks like the iPad version [...]

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Skype Challenges FaceTime, Introduces Video Calling

If you had little interest in video-calling before Apple’s own FaceTime service was introduced with the iPhone 4, we’d be surprised to hear it changed your mind.  Good software and decent enough quality couldn’t hide the fact it was seriously limited, thanks to Wi-Fi only connections to other iPhone 4’s or Macs. Now, after a surprisingly [...]

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Watch Out Skype, Here Comes Viber!

Out today is a new VoIP app for the iPhone named Viber, which by the sounds of the press release, is about to change the game.  It’s free to download and offers free calls over both Wi-Fi and 3G, to any other Viber user in the world.  What makes it interesting is how it has [...]

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Skype Adds Multitasking Support, Scraps Payment Plan

Skype, the popular VoIP application, has been updated to version 2.0.1, bringing with it a very helpful new function; the ability to run in the background when using iOS 4.  This means that regardless of whether your iPhone is active or locked, if Skype is running you’ll be able to receive calls and messages through [...]

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Skype to Remain Free for a Little While Longer

We covered the v2.0 update to Skype for the iPhone a little earlier in the week, where the news that VoIP calls could now be made over 3G was slightly marred by the announcement that come August, we would be paying for the previously free service. Skype has now decided to delay introducing their payment system [...]

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Making a phone call on your iPad, or how to look like a complete dork with your iPad

After the cat post, I could not resist. This latest attempt at humor will show you (in one simple image) how to look like a complete dork with your iPad. That said, I would love to see someone sporting this setup in public. Imagine, you walk into your favorite coffee shop to see someone using [...]

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Skype for the iPhone, 3G calling is coming “soon”

Last week we saw the news that Apple updated the SDK and removed the Wi-Fi only restrictions that VoIP apps previously had. And at the time, the iCall app was quickly updated to take advantage of the 3G calling. Naturally that left many wondering where Skype was, and when they planned on rolling out an [...]

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Official: AT&T to allow VoIP over 3G

In a short but sweet announcement, AT&T has made it official — they will soon begin to allow VoIP calls to be made using their 3G network. This is still an early development, so I am sure there will be more to this once the floodgates open up, but as of now this looks like [...]

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Six Alternative Communication Apps in a World Without Google Voice

Robert made his position on Apple’s rejection of the official Google Voice application clear in his post on the subject, and while we’re sure many of you feel the same way, plenty of others are always on the lookout for alternative dialers and communication tools to either make life simpler, cheaper or both.  Here are [...]

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