VoIP Technology

In the 2005 eBay bought Skype™ for the “cheap” amount of about 4 billions dollars principally to make easy the interaction between its users of the popular online auction, now, considering the poor achievement for this use, eBay want to sell Skype.
The price is about 2 billions dollars, it seems that the purchase has been done by a group of private investor of which for now has not been revealed the identity.

Symantec named it Peskyspy, it’s the new trojan that threaten the popular Skype™ (just the Windows version), it doesn’t create any kind of damage to the software, it just intercept Skype™ VoIP calls, record them into MP3 format, crypt them and finally send them to the author’s server.
The author of this trojan made available the source code and some video tutorial to learn to use its creation, they are available on his blog.

The new versione of Skype™, the 4.1, improve the audio/video quality of calls and introduce a new feature: the screen sharing between two Skype users, practically you can show your Windows desktop to another users and vice versa, to not confuse it with the remote desktop function.
To download and install Skype 4.1, visit the official website.

Skype™ offer under payment a SkypeIn number that allow to be contacted from landline phones and cellphone to the own Skype contact; starting from some days ago, it’s available a service, not owned by Skype, that offer a free SkypeIn number, Ring2Skype need just a simple and fast registration: a valid email address, a personal password (it could be different from the one used in Skype), the username of the Skype account that you want to associate with the number and, obviously, the country and the region for the allocation of the personal telephone number.
To be contacted over Skype from a landline phone or a cellphone you should provide the number with its extension, after composing the number, a voice will tell you to type the extension, at this time the call will be forwarded to Skype, that must be open and online.

Go Jajah is a new VoIP service dedicated to cellphones, this revolutionary service is useful to make calls to international numbers allowing to spend as a national call.
How does it works? Go Jajah assign a local number to your international contact’s numbers located in your cellphone address book so everytime you make a call to these numbers Go Jajah deviate the call over the Internet to contact the receiver phone, and the cost is like a local call, for calls made all around the world.
For more informations and to use the software, visit the official site.

The airline Virgin America has equipped its airplanes with WiFi Internet connection, Skype™ has been successfully used to make a live videocall with a famous american TV show.
The service offered by Virgin America is not for free and the fee is variable from about 6 dollars to about 13 dollars.
The videocalls by Skype™ are blocked by default to maintain a quiet and restful cabin environment, anyhow you can use the GoGo service to interface Skype and use just text messages.

It’s finally available the software to videocall by VoIP for the iPhone, the popular Skype™ is ready to use for the factotum cellphone by Apple; Skype™ for the iPhone is freely downloadable from the official website, or from the App Store website.
At the momento you can make calls by Skype™ just via a wi-fi broadband connection using the wireless connection integrated into the iPhone.
Skype for the iPhone is compatible also with the iPod Touch (the 2nd generation one).
For more informations, visit the Skype™ website.

P.S.: this is not an April fool’s joke!

Skype™ launch its beta version of SIP (Session Initiation Protocol), to allow companies and offices that own a PBX, a telephone exchange like Asterisk, to use the cheap rates of Skype™ to call telephones all over the world, obviously the Skype-To-Skype calls, by the SIP protocol, are free.
In a near future it will be possible to knock down almost completely the costs of normal phone calls, when most companies, offices and business activity will be equipped with easy and practical systems of voice communication by Internet, without the need to use a phone provider, if not for the broadband connection.
A defect is that the dispatch of normal fax is not still supported by the SIP protocol and it still need the use of a normale telephone line, even if soon, supposedly, the fax will be substituted by the Certified E-mail.

Starting from 31st of march, it will be no more available the Go!Messenger service over the PSP; the cause?

“Although it proved a popular concept, achieving a significant number of registrations, it didn’t gain the number of regular users that British Telecom and Sony Computer Entertainment Europe were aiming for.”

Currently it seems that there isn’t an alternative software to Go!Messenger, we wait for possible future progresses.

In 2007 Google acquired Grand Central and start the Google Voice service to provide VoIP communication services starting from the U.S. to arrive all over the world, Google Voice will be soon available in every country and it will be a new rival of Skype™.
Google Voice will give us free or low cost phone calls and SMS sending from landlines phones and cellphones.

More informations about Google Voice: http://www.grandcentral.com.

If you own a Gmail account, you can also try the new VoIP communication service called Gmail Voice, with high definition audio and video; official site: http://mail.google.com/videochat.