U.S. Troops Overseas Can Use Gmail To Call Home For Free

Uniformed U.S. military personnel serving abroad can use Gmail’s phone calling feature for free. The promotion starts now and runs through the end of the year. The free offering merely requires would-be callers to add and validate their .mil email addresses in Gmail. Then they can click the “Call phone” link in the Chat sidebar to initiate a call [...]

Qik Premium for Android now in market.

Qik has rolled out its premium live video-streaming product to all Android users. Qik Premium builds on the free Qik video service by adding a few extra features: unlimited video downloads and storage, sending and receiving video mail anytime, automatic video syncing with your computer through Qik Desktop, HD as well as 3D video recording on [...]

How to Launch Facebook Skype Video Chat :

You can now make video calls on Facebook, thanks to a new Skype-powered feature the social network launched Wednesday. During the product announcement, Mark Zuckerberg described how his elderly neighbor in Palo Alto asked if he could to video chat his grandson on Facebook — without the hassle of setting up a new account or downloading a program. [...]

What Facebook/Skype Video Chat Might Look Like:

We’ve confirmed with our sources that Facebook will indeed launch a video chat service next week, powered by Skype. But what will it look like, and how will it work? We haven’t seen screenshots of Skype-powered video chat on Facebook (yet), but we have some thoughts on how we think it will look. So we asked our [...]

Skype Video Chat Comes to Android

An update to Skype for Android includes one-to-one video chat. The new version of Skype’s app allows users to make free video calls between their phones and Skype contacts who are using any Skype-enabled device. Other new features of the Android app include easy contact navigation and a new “mood message box” at the top of the [...]