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Skype 4.0 beta - STILL No Multi-Party Video
Blog Comment Also Skype's customer support or the lack thereof makes it very frustrating to subscribe to their paid service like what I've experienced last year and made me looked somewhere else and found Onesuite (for my regular long distance calls) Yahoo...
[July 9, 2008, 9:32]
ooVoo Releases Version 2.2, with Business Features
Blog The basic "free" plan remains, with two-way video, text chat and file transfer. It extends across all of their plans, including the free service; so for example if I am using their free service, and I am in a video chat with one of my brothers, and...
[July 28, 2009, 7:50]
SnapYap - New Flash-Based Video IM Program
Blog The audio and video quality in a call seem reasonably good to me - typical of flash-based video chat, at least. Like the other flash-based chat programs (TokBox and the web clients of ooVoo and SightSpeed), the audio/video data does not appear to...
[August 27, 2008, 9:56]
iVisit
Downloads iVisit LLC's solution for multi-party video, voice and text chat over intranets and the Internet.iVisit supports color video, multiple simultaneous connections, call screening, flexible quality settings for video, easy no-risk installation...
[May 8, 2006, 8:00]
Skype 4.0 beta - STILL No Multi-Party Video
Blog Unfortunately, what they DON'T say, of course, is what is STILL MISSING - multi-party video chat. So, those who need or want more than one-to-one video chat still need to go to ooVoo or SightSpeed. Skype has announced their 4.0 beta release, with...
[June 18, 2008, 9:27]
LifeChat
Downloads If the messaging participants are using Mac OS X Tiger you can seamlessly voice chat and video chat one-on-one or multiple party with ease. You can text chat from one platform to any platform regardless of what type of operating system you are...
[May 8, 2005, 8:00]
TokBox Releases Desktop Client
Blog Comment You also mention that we don't support multi-party video chat. In fact, we support an arbitrary number of users in a video chat (though practically speaking, most people will be limited to between 6 and 8 people in a chat at one time.
[July 18, 2008, 9:58]
SightSpeed to Announce Linux Version
Blog Comment SightSpeed multi-party video chat is not only interesting to business users, we use it for family chats quite frequently. Skype has been mumbling vague promises about adding multi-party video for over a year now, with no results.
[September 17, 2008, 9:20]
SightSpeed Acquired By Logitech
Blog Comment SightSpeed and ooVoo both have multi-party video chat that works quite well, and Skype still has nothing but a lot of empty promises that they are "working hard" on it. People have a strong tendency to use what they are able to get easily, and get...
[October 30, 2008, 7:44]
Video Chat - ooVoo 2.0 Released
Blog They still have multi-party chat, of course; three-way in the free version, and up to six-way in the paid subscription "Super" version. If you chat with several family members, as I do, having them all in the same chat is great; if you use it for...
[February 3, 2009, 19:46]
Yahoo! pitches promotion to IM users
News has tried out banners in group chat windows that link three or more IM users in a single conversation. Messenger, using chat windows that normally carry messages between people who have agreed to share the system.
[August 9, 2001, 15:12]
TokBox Releases Desktop Client
Blog Comment I'm very sorry to have gotten it so totally wrong about multi-party chat! I think it is an example of how we become trapped by own experiences and expectations - it simply didn't occur to me to do something so simple to add more people to a video...
[July 18, 2008, 16:24]
Choosing a Web conferencing solution review
Reviews Of course, the elite packages -- Macromedia Breeze, Microsoft Live Meeting, and WebEx -- offer the most bells and whistles, including a whiteboard presentation space, IM chat, multiple-party video, quick polling and the ability to record a meeting...
[March 11, 2005, 13:05]
Unpatched security hole detected in ICQ
News A security hole that may allow an attacker to run malicious code on a victim's PC has been detected in AOL's ICQ chat program. This message is supposed to be a request from another ICQ user inviting the victim to participate interactively with a...
[January 25, 2002, 16:43]
Skype 3.8 Release Available
Blog Comment There are others, such as Gizmo5 and a few others, which will allow you consolidate your IM chat from a variety of services (except Skype, of course) with a single client.jw 20/12/2008 At the same time, the alternatives have gotten stronger, more...
[December 29, 2008, 10:26]
Yahoo highlights VoIP with IM beta
News Email was the killer application from the mid to late 1990s, then instant chat came second, now VoIP is opening up the third chapter," Frazier Miller, director of Yahoo Messenger, said in an interview.
[May 18, 2005, 10:10]
Virtual commando conversations boost VoIP
News Every Xbox Live game, whether published by Microsoft or a third-party game studio, includes broad voice chat capabilities. Online services for Microsoft's Xbox game console and Sony's PlayStation 2 have created the first major consumer application...
[February 6, 2004, 13:35]
Acer Aspire One review
Reviews The 8.9in.by-600-pixel display is a good one and the 1.3 megapixel webcam above the screen comes in handy for anyone who wants to video chat with remote colleagues, friends or relatives. Despite its lateness to the party, the One has pretty much...
[June 24, 2008, 13:34]
Microsoft forces IM upgrades
News A subscriber of Yahoo's IM service, for example, can't chat directly with someone on MSN. Microsoft is forcing people to upgrade to newer versions of its instant messenger application and is shutting its doors to third-party IM products such as...
[August 21, 2003, 12:00]
Cisco expands collaboration tools for the enterprise
News The Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP), which itself used to be known as Jabber, provides federation of presence — the ability to know whether a contact is online or offline, and what type of device they are connected on — across...
[November 9, 2009, 7:37]
