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Download Skype 2.8.0 for Mac OS X

A new version of Skype is available for Mac OS X users. Delivering improvements and enhanced compatibility with Snow Leopard, Skype version 2.8.0.722 also adds screen sharing (share what you’re seeing on your computer over a free call) and better sound and video. Skype uses the P2P (peer-to-peer) technology to...

18 September 2009
03:59 GMT

MyGlobalTalk - Free Calling App for iPhone

i2Telecom International, Inc. has launched MyGlobalTalk for iPhone. The application serves as the iPhone version of i2Telecom’s popular international calling solution. The app enables US-based users to make cheaper international phone calls by routing calls through the MyGlobalTalk network. i2Telecom Internati...

2 July 2009
06:18 GMT

Download Skype 1.1 for iPhone, iPod touch

Skype is at its 1.1 release on iPhone and iPod touch, delivering new features like the ability to send SMS messages using Skype credit and voicemail support. The developers also managed to improve dialing help, while adding support for several new languages. Skype is a free download from the iTunes App Store. Accord...

1 July 2009
09:58 GMT

Skype Formally Introduces iPhone, iPod touch Client

Skype Inc. has issued an official report announcing the immediate availability of a Skype client for iPhone and iPod touch. Available in the App Store as of today, the free application is supported on all iPhone models and the second generation iPod touch with a compatible headset and microphone, according to the app...

31 March 2009
08:23 GMT

Skype Hits iPhone, iPod touch. Works on 3G with OS 3.0.

Skype has been released as a free download for iPhone and iPod touch users. The application + service allows users to call each other for free using the VoIP protocol, via WiFi, Edge, or GPRS. Surprisingly, iPhone OS 3.0 users can use AT&T's connection to place and receive calls over 3G.“Skype is free call...

31 March 2009
03:26 GMT

Skype for iPhone, iPod touch in the App Store Tomorrow

A free Skype application for iPhone will finally be available to download from the iTunes App Store sometime on Tuesday, CNET news has confirmed after sitting down with the lead engineer working on the iPhone Skype client.“We got a chance to sit down with the application's principal engineer before the ann...

30 March 2009
06:20 GMT

RingtoneFeeder Announces 'Christmas for Your iPhone'

The folks at RingtoneFeeder have announced “Christmas on your iPhone,” an initiative that nabs you 24 iPhone-optimized ringtones this holiday season. For just US$4.99, you get six ringtones each week, for four weeks. According to Geoff Smith, partner and producer at RingtoneFeeder, all the ringtones will ...

2 December 2008
09:51 GMT

Orgasmic Calls Boosting Sperm Competition

Monkeys have a very pervert sexuality. And one of the kinkiest species is the Barbary macaques (Macaca sylvanus). A new research published in "Animal Behavior" shows that males spy around in search of other pairs having sex so that they get a chance to copulate. The same team lead by Dana Pfefferle of the German Prim...

3 April 2008
14:06 GMT

The Genes of Orgasmic Calls Found

All is in our genes. From speaking to laughing. Even the sex yells. A new research published in the journal PLos One has even found the first genes of sex calls in male mice. A male mouse on the way of having a hanky-panky session emits ultrasonic delight squeals. These vocalizations are the results of a gene control...

3 April 2008
14:06 GMT

iPhone Infringes on Displaying Number and Name

This you gotta hear! Romek Figa of Abraham & Son has just filed suit against Apple, claiming that "certain Apple telephones" (what, are there more of them?) infringe on his patent that does this: displays an incoming phone number alongside the incoming caller's name. That's it.Seemingly, Figa has patented t...

28 February 2008
06:09 GMT

A Fish Calling from Microsoft Support - Hilarious Video

If you ever wanted to hear a fish talk, this is your chance. Microsoft is without a doubt at the forefront of technology innovation, and the fact that it managed to pull such a trick off, as to get a fish talking with a Hindu accent, comes to prove that there is little the company can't do. I know this sounds no...

15 February 2008
05:52 GMT

Male Hummingbirds Sing with Their Tails for Sex

We've known that the bird's trills are produced by a very complex organ called syrinx, located on their trachea. But a new research published in the "Proceedings of the Royal Society B" journal shows that in fact their chirps may be produced via the most unexpected means. A hummingbird species has been foun...

1 February 2008
03:59 GMT

Yahoo! Messenger Call Recording Not on Its Way

It just sucks big time to have high hopes for a product that you just love using and have them shattered to pieces time and time again. That's the way it went for me with the IM from Yahoo!, which I used to base most of my online social life on, until I saw that the work they're putting in isn't, to sa...

7 January 2008
13:06 GMT

Dolphins' Language, Much More Sophisticated Than Believed!

It has already been known that each dolphin population has its own dialect or even "language", which cannot be understood by a "foreigner" dolphin, as it is learned. But a new research made by PhD candidate Liz Hawkins, from Southern Cross University's Whale Research Centre, in Lismore, revealed that the dolphin...

27 December 2007
04:36 GMT

Top 7 Ultrasound Emitting Animals

Human ear cannot detect sounds that have frequencies lower than 20 Hz (infrasounds) or over 20 kHz (called ultrasounds). That's why some species may appear quite silent for us, while in fact they are very noisy... We only lack their hearing to figure this out.1.Dolphins and toothed whales are famous for their so...

20 December 2007
14:06 GMT

Air France Will Allow Mobile Phone Use During Flights

You know the drill: every time you get in an airplane, you must stop using your cell-phone. For a while, there have been rumors about the possibilities of allowing the passengers to use their handsets during flights. With the changes that AirFrance made, their passengers will be able to send text messages and e-mails...

20 December 2007
09:22 GMT

Why Do Females Scream While Having Sex?

Now we know why your female partner plays her musical score while having sex: it boosts your fertility. Judging on a lower rank on the evolutionary scale, female monkeys could shout while having sex to help their male partners ejaculate! This is the results of a research carried by a team at the German Primate Center...

19 December 2007
14:06 GMT

10 Amazing Facts About Elephants

1.There are 170 known fossil elephant species that inhabited the whole Earth, except for Australia and Antarctica. The elephants' ancestors appeared 50 million years ago in North Africa, were pig sized and resembled a tapir. Elephants' living closest relatives are sea cows, like manatees, dugongs and hyraxe...

21 November 2007
16:48 GMT

Google Rumored to Buy Skype? Yahoo Improves Voice Quality Services

It was just yesterday when rumors of Google readying itself to bid for Ebay's Skype hit the market. Realizing what this could mean for Android, Yahoo decided to step up its game a notch.Ok, that is a little exaggerated. Or a little more than that, anyway. Because it's just a rumor, because Yahoo has had the...

21 November 2007
05:10 GMT

VibraExciter Gives Women A Buzz...Both Ways!

Women like to talk for hours on the phone and shopping for sex toys; therefore, it's only natural to combine the two of them in the most pleasurable way.Some fellows have thought about developing a brand new vibrator that every woman can use to give someone a buzz. And of course, she's surely going to give ...

18 October 2007
07:51 GMT

Google's Phone Service Now in Final Version

GOOG-411 is one of the main steps made by the Mountain View company to conquer the mobile users wherever they are. Today, the product officially graduates from the Labs platform which is supposed to test all the technologies before they are upgraded to final services. In case you never used GOOG-411, you should know ...

15 October 2007
04:06 GMT

10 Things You Did Not Know About Croaking!

1. A croak is produced by frogs by pushing air through the larynx in the throat. Most frogs have vocal sacs that amplify the sound. These are elastic skin membranes that work by distention. Tree frogs, toads and most South American and Australian frogs have just one vocal sack located under the throat (it can be larg...

29 September 2007
06:14 GMT

Mobile Phones Harm Hearing

This is the second technological addiction of today's people, after the Internet. But experts warn that using a mobile phone for over an hour daily could induce hearing damage. Research reveals that persons who regularly employ their mobile for over an hour a day experience hearing impairment, and it is especial...

22 September 2007
03:59 GMT

Another Google Service Already Shut Down?

The Google Maps web-based mapping tool rolled out in November a special function that allows you to call a certain business straight from the interface of the service. The function was only a test according to some sources from Google and was shut down some time ago although the search giant didn't officially a...

23 July 2007
04:48 GMT

Mobile Phone Technology for Airplanes, Introduced Till September 2007

If you believe airplanes are the place where you escape the buzz of the phone cells, you're wrong. Aircrafts will be connected through a new system permitting travelers to make mobile phone calls from the height of the skies. Currently, you are requested to switch off cell phones as a part of the takeoff routine...

25 June 2007
07:12 GMT

Cicada Calls Can Permanently Damage Hearing

The character of La Fontaine's fable has turned into a grotesque American nightmare. One that comes at each 17 years, and which could be gone by the beginning of July. In the Illinois area, chorus of cicadas throb in the oak trees, brain-piercingly loud. "It's dreadful. (...) it's the noise. By midday,...

11 June 2007
07:12 GMT

Do Fish Speak?

"Fish don't think/'Cause fish know everything." If we make scuba diving, the sea seems a world of silence. But it's a deceptive view. Fish are not that smart and …they do speak. In fact, water transmits sounds better than the air and while light penetrates just to 300 m (1,000 ft), below this depth the...

2 June 2007
06:58 GMT

The Hotline: 1-800-GOOG-411

Google Voice Local Search is a new service introduced by the Mountain View company that allows users to get their results straight by phone. Basically, the product is able to work with any Google product but at this time, you can use it only for Google Maps. Let me explain you the procedure: let's suppose you wa...

23 May 2007
13:56 GMT

Fish Don't Speak...Hell No!...

If you think that fish speak just in cartoons, well….you're wrong!Researchers detected how clownfish - exactly the species depicted as Nemo - employ sound communication. By employing high-speed video imaging and X-ray technology, researchers discovered how fish use their jaws to emit warning sounds before expell...

18 May 2007
06:31 GMT

Sex Talk Can Be Deadly

When it's about sex, the main goal is reproduction. But when it's about calling for sex, the call can bring the end of the caller's kind. Brazilian researchers found that parasitoid wasps spy on the "sex talk" of female stink bugs in order to detect new flash for their eggs. The parasitoid wasps seem d...

20 April 2007
04:30 GMT

A Bagpipe to Get Sex

Do you know what's the similarity between Rudolf and those kilted Scots?They use a bagpipe to impress the females. A group of European biologists from Berliner Leibniz Institute of Zoo and Wildlife Research in Germany, Ilomantsi Game Research Station in Finland and the University of Veterinary Medicine in Vienn...

19 March 2007
08:27 GMT

Call of Duty 2 Cheats and Glitches (Xbox 360)

The winner of over 80 Game of the Year awards, Call of Duty 2 offers more immense, more intense, more realistic battles than ever before, thanks to the stunning visuals of the new COD2 engine. All-new, unprecedented enhancements from stunningly realistic graphics to seamless gameplay, groundbreaking A.I., and choice-...

13 March 2007
04:42 GMT

Unlimited Free SMS Service Available

SIPphone Inc., the makers of Gizmo Project and Gizmo Call, announced earlier this week the launch of its web-based SMS service Gizmo SMS, located here. Gizmo SMS lets people easily send SMS text messages to mobile phones around the world, from any web browser, for free. No registration or account setup required. Gizm...

8 March 2007
10:31 GMT


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