How fast is fast? That’s the question I still ask whenever a broadband supplier talks to me about its latest super-fast broadband speeds. Because until recently there has always been a catch in the broadband advertising. There are two different factors to consider when measuring speed. Bandwidth refers to the size of the conduit in which the data is traveling within. Speed refers to the rate at which... 

Websites such as Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, IMDB, Wired are already blocked in China and Google closed down its Chinese servers last year. And in the latest move China has announced that all internet phone calls (that rely on VoIP; services like Skype) are to be banned apart from those made over two state-owned networks, China Unicom and China Telecom. According to the People’s Daily... 

Skype unleashed version 3.0 of the Skype App for Apple iOS devices this evening. And here is the great news for all Skype users on iOS devices — video calling feature on iOS devices has just hit iOS in the latest version of Skype mobile. In this update, Skype has quietly rolled out an updated version of its iOS app that brings two-way video calling to the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. The new... 

Internet phone company Skype announced a bare-bones version of its software Monday designed to work over very low bandwidth internet connections that often are the only links aid workers in far flung places have to the outside world.  Skype S.A. chief executive Tony Bates said the company redesigned its application after being approached by the U.N. refugee agency to help staff working in remote locations... 

A small IP communications firm Jajah Inc. has launched a tool that lets Twitter users communicate via voice and rolled out it beta version 3 days back on 17th of Sept. While it would be interesting to see whether twitter fans would accept/reject this tiny little service that is designed to provide short tweet like phone calls among twitter users and is meant to be compatible with any Twitter platform;...