There is some change at Skype, the messaging giant that is now a part of Microsoft: Jonathan Rosenberg, the chief technology strategist, and then later GM of product strategy and research at Microsoft who was behind the creation of Skype’s Facebook video calling feature and other developments, has left the company to become a VP and CTO of cloud collaboration for Cisco — the company from which… → Read More
Cloud-based global comms provider Jibe Mobile has closed an $8.3m funding round from investors including Vodafone Ventures, the VC arm of the telco, and Japanese mobile content provider MTI, plus other unnamed investors. Jibe is building a platform for app developers to more easily (and cheaply) incorporate rich, real-time comms features into their apps — such as VoIP and video calling. → Read More
Google has been sprucing up its Hangouts video calling service with an updated API for features like private messages, and the ability to block people and change a Hangout from private to public. A video celebrating Hangouts gives us a glimpse of even more changes that could be coming up ahead. Specifically, a vertical, icon-based menu bar in the left column; and the removal of the menu bar at… → Read More
This spring, Tango raised $40 million in a Series C round, and announced plans to expand beyond its original focus of enabling video calls between mobile users. In fact, it’s no longer accurate to call Tango a “video chat service” as we once did – it’s now a social platform. The company has been slowly inching in this direction with the launch of video messaging and, more recently, text… → Read More
As promised earlier this summer, mobile video calling app Tango has finally made it to the PC. Today, a year after its launch on iOS and Android, Tango is now available for Windows desktop computers (XP, Vista and Windows 7). The company says a Mac version will be available later this year. → Read More
[photopress:Jetsons_Video_Phone.jpg,full,center] That nice big flat panel HDTV in your living room might become the video phone we’ve all expected of the future, if ooVoo and Quanta have anything to say about it. The video chat software maker and computer hardware manufacturer are teaming up to develop a set-top video phone solution. The thing is, video phones have been trying to land in the… → Read More
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