video calling

By 2015, Cellphones Will Do 3D Holographic Video Calls (Says IBM Survey)

Around this time every year, IBM surveys 3,000 researchers to find out what they think is going to be big in the future. This year, everyone’s caught the FaceTime bug, and is looking forward to 3D hologram video calls. The video calls will be projected from cellphones using pico-projector technology, according to the survey. Other…

What Facebook and Skype Integration Would Mean For You

Facebook and Skype integration! That’s the rumor. But beyond the intermingling of two major tech companies, the important question is: how’s this going to affect you? https://gizmodo.com/rumor-facebook-coming-to-skype-soon-for-video-chattin-5650776 Video Chat With Facebook Friends From Skype Just to be clear: this wouldn’t mean that you’d be able to Skype video chat through Facebook. Not yet, anyway. Instead,…

Cisco’s Telepresence Video Chat is Expected for Homes Next Week

We’ve been hearing for a while that Cisco was wanting to get down with Joe Blow on the street, so it’s not at all surprising to hear that next week they’re rumored to unveil a “cheap” home-telepresence product. When we say cheap, we mean it won’t cost much more than one of their Flip camcorders,…

Rumor: Facebook Coming to Skype Soon, for Video-Chatting Facebook Mates

How often do you use Facebook Chat, the buggy IM service? If the answer is “hardly ever,” then do you think you’d be keen on video-chatting, calling or SMSing with them through Skype instead? According to Kara Swisher at AllThingsD, Facebook and Skype are close to announcing a deal which would see Skype accounts integrated…

Skype 5.0 Windows Beta Has 10-Way Video Calling!

Skype’s latest Windows-only 5.0 beta 2 doubles their five-way video calling to ten. TEN. How does ten-way video calling look? Like this. If you add two. We could only get eight, and four of them was me. While the eight-way video call was going, everything looked and sounded fine. I had to mute all four…

This Is Why I Hate Video Chats

This happens to me every single time I video chat with someone. And then once the chat disconnects, I keep wondering if I had a stupid look on my face in the final frame. [Doghouse Diaries]

Question of the Day: Will You Ever Use Two-Way Video Calling?

Two-way video calling is now possible on Android, and the chances are damned good that they’re coming to the iPhone next month. But really, do you care? https://gizmodo.com/fring-for-android-is-two-way-video-calling-from-the-fut-5549494 Holding a phone up and talking at it and seeing the other person talking back is a neat trick, sure, but I can’t imagine I’ll use it…

Fring For Android Is Two-Way Video Calling From the FUTURE

Oh man, oh man, oh man! You can download Fring for Android right now and make two-way video calls—ones demonstrated in all the promises of the future— RIGHT NOW. For Android. Here’s what the quality is like. Sometimes it’s echo-y, and sometimes when there’s too much motion it gets pixelated to hell, but it’s two-way…

Will iPhone 4’s Audio and Video Chat Finally Break the Voice Calling Scam?

A front-facing iPhone camera means video calling, but it’s also a sign of something bigger. Combined with other recent leaks, it means that Apple is bringing iChat to the iPhone. Everything about voice calling may be about to change. iChat, You Chat So, how does the appearance of a front-facing camera change standard voice calling?…

iPhone OS 3.2 Supports Video Calls, File Downloads, and Pseudo-Multitasking?

Based on an SDK which doesn’t differentiate between the iPhone and iPad, folks at Engadget say they’ve confirmed that the iPhone OS 3.2 has “rudimentary” support for video calling and file downloading. Too soon for any excitement at all? File downloading and local storage in the browser could be great. Just imagine finally being able…

Our iPhone 2.0 Wishlist

Sometimes reading rumors about the second iPhone is exactly like reading a wishlist of features people want. Whether it’s subconscious or not, the rumors do get us thinking about what we want from a 3G iPhone. In short, we want an iPhone done right. Here’s what we want to make the 3G iPhone faster, better…

Nokia Points to Users’ Fatness To Explain Lack of Interest in Video Calling

Katherine over at Tech Digest caught this very interesting quote by a Nokia VP over at the S60 Summit today, explaining why their users aren’t quite as interested in video calling as Nokia’s sales department would hope. Here’s the reason: the angle you’re forced to hold the phone at when you’re making video calls “isn’t…

AT&T’s Video Share video calling service has now gone live, but with plans of $4.99 a month for 25 minutes or $9.99 for 60 minutes, it’s not exactly cheap. [AT&T] https://gizmodo.com/at-t-unveils-video-sharing-service-presumably-to-help-270237