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Google Voice Fields Multiple Calls in Gmail

Posted by Admin | Posted in Premium TV | Posted on 21-07-2011

Google is now allowing users to make multiple calls at once from Gmail, thanks to improvements in its Google Voice phone management application. The feature also pauses and resumes calls. – Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) July 20 rolled out a service to augment its phone calling capability in Gmail by letting users make
multiple calls at the same time.
The search giant surprised
users last August when it launched
calling capability in Gmail, which leverages the company’s Google Voice
phone m…

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Google Voice Global Spam Filter Punts Telemarketers

Posted by Admin | Posted in Premium TV | Posted on 13-07-2011

Google Voice gets a global spam filter to help stop the onslaught of unwanted messages on the phone management service. This happens on the fly before the calls hit users landline, work or cell phones. –
Combating
spam in email messaging is a normal task for Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) across its
Gmail application and Google Apps suite, but who knew it could be useful for
shedding unwanted calls?
Google
has added global spam filtering for its Google Voice phone management application, which lets us…

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Facebook, Google Differ on Video Chat Approach

Posted by Admin | Posted in Premium TV | Posted on 10-07-2011

Facebook partnered with Skype on one-to-one video chat, while Google built a many-to-many Hangouts video calling application for Google+. Boosting user engagement is the end goal for both. –
When Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg launched video chat powered
by Skype July 6, pundits immediately took to shaming and flaming the company for
launching the service one week after Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) launched its own
social network to beta with its own video application.
Facebook, the world’…

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Skype for Android Comes to Select ‘Gingerbread’ Smartphones

Posted by Admin | Posted in Premium TV | Posted on 30-06-2011

Skype for Android offers two-way video calling on only four Android 2.3 "Gingerbread" smartphones: the Google Nexus S, HTC Desire 5, Sony Ericsson Xperia neo and Sony Ericsson Xperia pro. –
Skype, the PC calling company Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) is buying for $8.5
billion, launched its Skype for Android application to let owners of Android
smartphnes make video calls from the popular VOIP software.
Android handsets owners will be able to make calls to and
receive calls from Skype …

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Skype Calls on U.S. Congress

Posted by Admin | Posted in Premium TV | Posted on 29-06-2011

Skype is now available to members of U.S. Congress, paving the way for VOIP communications as a substitute to pressing of the flesh for politicians who can’t travel for meetings. –
Skype doesn’t require any
more legitimacy in the wake of being acquired by Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) for $8.5 billion. The
popular VOIP (Voice over IP) service got more anyway.
U.S. Congress members and
their staff can now use the PC calling network, as well as one provided by
ooVoo, to conduc…

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Logitech Partners With Jabra for UC Peripherals

Posted by Admin | Posted in Premium TV | Posted on 22-06-2011

Logitech, which last year bought LifeSize for its video collaboration technology, is looking to leverage a partnership with Jabra to grow its presence in the UC space. – Logitech, which last year bought video collaboration vendor LifeSize Communications,
is looking to grow its presence in the larger unified communications space.
Logitech
officials on June 21 announced a distribution partnership with GN Netcom
through which Logitech will sell products from Netcom…

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Skype Deepens Facebook Integration With Chat, Contacts

Posted by Admin | Posted in Premium TV | Posted on 21-06-2011

Skype has extended its integration with Facebook, allowing users to send instant messages directly from the VOIP app to Facebook Chat users. Meanwhile, Microsoft’s bid to buy Skype gets closer to reality. – Skype, the
world’s leading voice over IP service in the process of being acquired by Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) for $8.5
billion, has expanded its integration with Facebook.
Skype 5.5 Beta version for Windows will now let users send instant messages to their Facebook
Chat friends directly from Skyp…

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Microsoft’s Skype Deal Approved by Feds: The Hard Part Begins

Posted by Admin | Posted in Premium TV | Posted on 20-06-2011

Microsoft’s $8.5 billion acquisition of Skype has been approved by federal regulators. Now comes the challenges of integrating Skypes assets into the Microsoft mothership. – The U.S. Department of Justice has approved Microsofts
$8.5 billion acquisition of Skype.
Now the fun part begins.
Once the deal is closed, Skype will become a Microsoft
division headed by Skype CEO Tony Bates, with its services meshed with a
variety of Microsoft products such as the Lync unif…

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FuzeBox Aims for Telepresence Interoperability, Mobility

Posted by Admin | Posted in Premium TV | Posted on 17-06-2011

FuzeBox is rolling out Fuze Telepresence, which is designed to enhance interoperability between systems from Cisco, Polycom and others, and to extend video conferencing to smartphones and tablets. – Interoperability between room-based telepresence systems continues to be a focus of such top-tier vendors as Cisco Systems and Polycom. Now a smaller company, FuzeBox, is introducing a product aimed, not only at ensuring interoperability between such systems, but also extending such telepresence con…

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Skype, Comcast Partner to Bring HD Video Calling to TV

Posted by Admin | Posted in Premium TV | Posted on 15-06-2011

Comcast customers can make and receive video and audio via Skype on a television while watching a TV show. – Communications giant Comcast and voice over IP provider Skype
announced that the companies have entered into a strategic partnership
that will enable Comcast customers to communicate with family and
friends through HD video calling on their television. Comcast users
will soon be able to make and…

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