VoIP Technology

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.

ooVoo it’s a new VoIP software and it have a special feature that others similar software don’t have, that is to perform videoconference up to six simultaneous users, this means that it’s possibile to display the video and audio of six users at the same time.
ooVoo also allow you to perform free VoIP calls to landlines phones and cellphones (at the moment only in the U.S. and Canada).

Another interesting features is that you can record video messages with ease by way of your webcam and send them to other users/friends/relatives via the same program, it’s also possibile to add a variety of special video effects.
If you buy the ooVoo Super version you can record your video conversations too.

ooVoo it’s freely distributed and is downloadable from the official website, available for Windows systems and Mac.

Today 3rd of February has been released the final version 4.0.0.206 of the popular VoIP software Skype™.
Between the new features we can find a renewed graphical interface, a better supporto for HD webcams, audio and video quality improved and added the possibility to answer and to switch from a call to another with easiness, organize every call in the main window or use different windows for every active call.
Just check out the new version and touch with your hand the new features of this useful and diffuse VoIP software.

To download Skype™ 4 for free just refer to the official site

While waiting for the definitive version 4, it’s available for download the beta 3 release of the famous VoIP software Skype™.
To download it, visit this page.

From a few days are available also for Italy the SkypeIn telephone numbers, practically you can buy a telephone number to allow the reception of normal phone calls from landlines phone and cellphones to your Skype™. Who will call you will pay the fee of a normal phone call, the cost depends by the phone provider used.
The costs of SkypeIn number are 18 USD for 3 months and 60 USD for 12 months.
For more details and infos, refer to the Skype™ Shop.
The SkypeIn number however is included in the three Skype™ offers: Unlimited Country, Unlimited Europe, Unlimited World.

Nimbuzz is a instant messaging software developed for PC and cellphones, including iPhone, that allow to communicate with the contacts of: Skype, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, AIM and Google Talk.
Besides, it’s possible to use the VoIP account to make normal phone calls to landlines phones and cellphones.
For more informations and features, refer to the Nimbuzz official website.
The iPhone version of Nimbuzz is available on the App Store.