As rumored last week, Skype for iPhone is now available on the iTunes App Store. The free Skype application works with both the iPhone and the iPod Touch, allowing you to make free or low-cost Skype calls using VoIP and your WiFi connection. That's right, it won't work work over 3G or EDGE networks, … [Read more...]
Skype for iPhone Arrives Next Week
I love a good rumor, especially when it's about two great products. In this case, the rumor involves the popular VoIP messenger Skype (which has been downloaded over 400 million times) and the iPhone. GigaOM has it on good authority that an official Skype app for the iPhone will be showing up at … [Read more...]
Nimbuzz Adds 3G VoIP to iPhone
Nimbuzz today released an update to their VoIP application for the iPhone. The new version adds the ability to make VoIP calls to landlines and mobiels via Skype-Out and Nimbuzz's major SIP partners, including Gizmo5 and SIPgate. Nimbuzz also works on an iPod Touch via wifi, essentially turning it … [Read more...]
BeeJive Blocks Pirates
BeeJiveIM for iPhone was updated this week to support Facebook chat. Not long afterward, reports started coming in that something was wrong for some people. When they tried connecting to any IM service, they got a mysterious "PC LOAD LETTER" message which, when clicked, opened a clip from Office … [Read more...]
iPhone 3.0 Software Unveiled
Apple today unveiled the blueprint for iPhone OS 3.0 -- the next version of the software for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Available today to iPhone developers, and released to iPhone owners sometime "this summer," the new iPhone OS brings over 100 new features, including some that have been missing or … [Read more...]
AIM For iPhone Gets an Upgrade
MARCH 4, 2009 UPDATE - The ad-free, paid version of AIM for the iPhone went up on the iTunes Application Store today. As we initially reported, it costs $2.99, and is essentially the same as the free version, with the exclusion of advertising. AOL has updated their AIM application for the … [Read more...]
Truphone Adds AIM to its iPhone App
The Truphone mobile VoIP service announced support for AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) chat into its iPhone app. This comes just a couple weeks after adding instant messaging support for Google Talk, Windows Live Messenger and Yahoo! Messenger. The Truphone iPhone app is free from the Apple App … [Read more...]
Expanded Forums for Social Networks and Mobile Devices
For seven years, BigBlueBall has been one of the few reliable resources on the web for coverage of all instant messenger networks. In those seven years, we've seen IM products come and go, and been here with you all the way. Your instant messaging contact list was then, and still is today, the … [Read more...]