New Skype beta version comes with a new feature – an add-on for video conference calls. The new function is expected to become a preferred communication channel for international video conference meetings because of its cheap price. Skype 5.0 beta for Windows was released for free download last Thursday. Instead of having a one recipient video call, as it’s in Skype previous versions, you can now host video calls with up to 5 other Skype users. However, 2 requirements have to be fulfilled in order to use the new function – each user have to have a web cam and Skype 5.0 beta installed on a computer with Windows. The other news abut Skype concerns the updata that was released last week. Then Skype announced its new set of calling plans that will be useful for those users who use the platform mainly to call mobile phone. Skype certainly is not the first platform to offer video conference calls in users everyday life. Its rival – VoxOx offers this...

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Apple’s iPad promises to become the “magical and revolutionary product” of 2010. The long-expected touch-screen tablet device is becoming a sensation before it’s released for sale. It occurred that the preorders of the device are “hundreds of thousands”. According to The Wall Street Journal material if this keeps up, Apple could end up selling more iPads in the first three months than original iPhones sold the first three months after its debut those sources. It's still not clear if that means actual sales only, or if that includes reservations for in-store pickups of the device. Apple.com is taking reservations for customers who want to pick up a device in a store on the first day of sale, April 3, but it doesn't require a credit card to be put down. It means that if they don't pick up the device by 3 p.m. that day the iPad reservation is canceled. In other words, a reservation should not yet be counted as a sale, but again it's not entirely...

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No doubt, anyone of us has experienced the following situation – we see someone on the subway or on the street but we can't quite remember who they are. But now, Recognizr – a new technology from the Swedish firm The Astonishing Tribe (TAT) could soon be able to help us figure out who they are so that we can greet them by name. According to an article published Tuesday in Popular Science, Recognizr is a new application that can figure out who someone is – it only need a photo of the person and a quick tour in social networking information about that person. ( See how here ) Riffing on the growing field of augmented reality, the magazine called the technology "augmented identity” (Augmented reality is a term in computer researches that explains a live direct or indirect view of a physical real-world environment whose elements are augmented by virtual computer-generated imagery). PopSci describes the innovative technology as a alliance...

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At Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on Tuesday, Skype and Verizon Wireless announced together the launch of Skype Mobile, a free application that will run on select Verizon smartphones. The application was co-developed by the Skype and Verizon teams and according to the two companies representatives it will be launched late in March on nine different devices, including: • BlackBerry Curve • BlackBerry 8830 World Edition • BlackBerry Storm 1 • BlackBerry Storm 2 • Motorola Droid • HTC Eris • Motorola Devour The application will be a free download. It will run in the background on all of those phones. Also Skype representative mentioned that the company has worked very closely with Verizon to maximize battery life and call quality. All of the Skype calls will go through the data plan and will not count as cellular minutes. Skype and Verizon also hinted that there would be some address book integration that will show the Skype...

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A few days ago the German Federal Agency for safety IT sphere announced that the world’s most popular browser Internet Explorer (6,7 and 8) had occurred to be dangerous for the computer when used for website surfing. The conflict arose in the moment when Google announced a series of cyber attacks toward the emails of Chinese right defenders and added that accidents like this can force the company to leave the Chinese market. According to BBC, in a statement Microsoft has confessed that its browser is a “weak unit” and it was he main reason for the cyber attacks against Google serves. The cause was a bug in Internet Explorer browser of which hackers took advantage. According Thomas Baumgarthner, Microsoft representative in Germany, the attacks against Google were executed by “highly motivated people with special aims” and were not directed toward regular users. That’s why, Microsoft representative didn’t agreed with the German...

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On Tuesday Skype announced that it is embedding its service on numerous HDTVs and added that now it is supporting high-definition video calls in the 720p HD format on PCs. With these moves, the free online communication service is aiming to make video conferencing something that can be easily conducted from the living room and meanwhile these video calls can have high-definition connections mainstream. Skype said its latest Windows version can deliver HD calls as long as people have an HD Webcam and a chip running at least 1.8GHz. The HD webcams are expected to be presented at CES for early 2010 arrival. More interesting is Skype's distribution move to embed its service on Internet-connected HDTVs from Panasonic and LG Electronics.  

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If 2008 was the year of the Netbook, then 2009 as a whole can be described as the year of the e-reader. Just 12 months ago, Amazon's Kindle was the only real player in field e-reading devices but now, at the end of 2009, consumers could read e-books on similar products such as the Barnes & Noble Nook, Sony Reader, and Interead Cool-er, as well as the lesser-known Aluratek Libre. Lots of companies that haven’t taken action in developing and releasing an e-reader up to now announced their intentions to invade that product category, which is still dominated by Amazon. Among those are: Plastic Logic with its Que; Spring Design with its Alex; Entourage, maker of the Edge; and Zen maker Creative and their project with experimental name MediaBook. E-readers showed a strong presence but so did smartphones. E-readers and smartphones seemed uninfluenced by the recession. Market research experts from IDC announced that during the third quarter, vendors shipped a record 43.3...

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