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Skype phone for Mac users

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A product that lets Mac users with Skype connections use their mobiles to make and receive Skype calls through their handset has been announced. EQO Communications has released a beta version of EQO Mobile for Skype for Mac OS X. The release means Mac users can extend Skype VOIP calling and messaging to their mobile phones. The solution consists of a small client application that runs on the mobile and another on the Mac. As long as Skype is active on the computer, users can use EQO’s software and their mobile to keep in touch with Skype contacts. The software lets users make and receive Skype calls, exchange Instant Messages, and view presence information about their buddies over the Skype network. Over 45 different handsets from vendors including Nokia , Motorola , Palm, and Sony-Ericsson are supported. EQO recently introduced support for Palm TREO 650 and Motorola ROKR, SLVR, and RAZR phones. The company’s website explains: “When you call a Skype buddy or another number th

Skype Goes Gold?

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Amidst the formal announcement of Skype Video Gold for Mac this month, lots of users worldwide aired their dissatisfaction over the latest updates for Skype 2.0. One of the primary concern is the video quality. It is said that it gained inferior video conferencing capability than to its previous version 2.0.0.3 (beta). According to the users discussion, they rather go back to the previous version than to gamble their Macs to the present upgrades. In my personal opinion, it seems that Skype developers have not tested it well specially to all Mac skype capable machines. They have waited the users to react and tested their product for possible in compatibility and glitches. They have first to consider some plug and play devices attached and built in into Mac machines and study more for its product quality control before it opens for public. Nevertheless, this is a product in progress and for sure Skype developers are doing its job to address this glitches and at least we, skype users must

Funny Commercial of a girl taking a guys shorts

I have received this link from a friend in L.A who is fond of watching videos from You Tube, Filmstack and Google Video. This viral ad campaign seems to work nowadays and it easily capture wide audience. The birth of P2P application such as Skype can make this viral a success because it can easily be shared to anyone. Aside from this, it has the capability to syndicate its contents and post it to your blog. I'm just hoping that someday, Skype would create an option to record a video call at the same time you can use this to record your own personal video. www. Filmstack.com - The Video Blog - www.vewgle.com Watch, Discuss and share at the google video forum Funny Commercial of a girl taking a guys shorts - www.VideoTies.com - Personal Video Profiles. Networking/Dating!

Skype reached 136 million

eBay reports on its third quarter result this week that it shows 20 percent rise in the subscriber’s base of its Skype services. Now the total subscriber of Skype is 136 million , an increase of about 23 million over the second quarter. After it buys Skype last year, it has a dramatic increase of 137 percent from a year ago. Skype has also brought total revenue of $50 million for eBay. On the other hand, eBay recorded net revenues of $1.449 billion during Q3, showing 31 percent year-over-year growth. Gross merchandise volume has increased just 17%, to $12.6 billion, and overall marketplace revenue has shown 22 percent rise, down from 35% growth a year earlier.

Skype with Tojan Calls

After making a big splash in the news through its $2.6 billion deal with eBay, Skype Technologies can't be happy about a malicious Trojan horse that is circulating as an e-mail attachment and purports to be the newest release of the company's Internet telephone software. The e-mail, claiming to contain version 1.4 of Skype's VoIP (voice over Internet Protocol) software client, contains a variant of the IRCbot Trojan horse, according to MessageLabs Ltd., which issued a warning earlier this week after detecting and blocking hundreds of copies of the new variant. Skype released the new version on Oct. 10. A widespread of unsolicited e-mail, or spam, contains malicious software, as criminal groups seek to infect computers with malware in order to add new systems to their botnets, or zombie networks . Users who launch the attachment see a fake "installation error" box on their screens, according to MessageLabs. What is actually happening, however, is that the malware i