CONTROVERSIAL fighter Anthony Mundine has copped some of his own after taking aim at newly crowned WBA light heavyweight Danny Green and slamming former world champion Jeff Fenech as `jealous’ of his success. Mundine `talked turkey’ with a caged chicken he called `Danny Green’ in his latest stunt when announcing a WBA super middleweight title defence against fellow Muslim Nadar Hamden for the Sydney Entertainment Centre on February 27.
Dec
20
Internet telephony hasn t put phone companies out of business the way it was supposed to. But there s now evidence that Web calling is making it hard for at least international phone companies to continue doing business as usual. A TeleGeography Research survey has found that, for the first time in several decades, the growth rate for total international voice minutes is falling. Volume growth is a crucial factor in international carriers survival strategies.
Dec
20
For the more talkative members of MySpace, the last two months must have seemed like an eternity. In mid-October 2007, the social network and Skype announced that they had agreed to integrate the latter s Internet-calling capabilities with the former s IM (instant messaging) functions. The integrated service has finally gone live, adding 110 million MySpace members to the 245 million registered Skype users who can potentially call each other for free.
Dec
20
RipIt RingIt breaks new ground, enabling free ringtones for Skype. The ringtone maker allows users to record their own ringtones that can be assigned to individual callers or, for greater impact, sent to each of their contacts. The ringtones can be simple voice announcements or anything that users can record, limited only by the user s creativity. RipIt RingIt offers a completely new mode of personal expression, even branding.
Dec
18
While consolidation among the large-cap mining groups has grabbed all the recent headlines, the junior miners on Aim have motored ahead relatively unnoticed. The miners have been the best performing sector on the main market over the past three years and this success has been mirrored on Aim. The Mining EYe index of the top 20 Aim miners - which is produced by the corporate finance team at Ernst & Young - rose by an impressive 33pc in the year to date.
Dec
17
Bringing more immediacy to Facebook apps from BuddyMedia, (fluff)Friends, RockYou, Slide, The Broth and the WaterCooler, Web-based instant messaging startup Meebo is now letting Facebook developers add chat to their apps through a new partner program. Basically, these are versions of Meebo Rooms inside Facebook that can be customized and skinned any way the app developer wants.
Dec
17
Google has integrated AOL’s popular AIM instant-messaging service into its Gmail Web-based e-mail client, the company announced on Tuesday. Gmail has had its own chat service since February 2006, but now Gmail users will be able to connect to AIM through a drop-down menu on the Gmail Web page, Google said. Gmail users can sign into AIM through the ‘њset status here’ќ menu, Google said. AIM contacts and Gmail chat will appear on the same menu.
Dec
17
According to the statement, the description should read, Nothing per minute nationwide calls to any phone within the U.S. and Canada. No connection fee applies for calling within the U.S. and Canada. Fair usage policies apply to all SkypeOut calls. Company also informed that the Skype team is working to correct the inaccuracy as quickly as possible.
Dec
17
The other nugget that rose to the surface was the forthcoming enhancement of Skype Prime , which is soon going to enjoy better integration with Skype’s directories service. It seems that 80,000 people have signed up as service providers for the scheme, but as for user numbers… well, they’re not talking about that, really. Maybe because they’ve only been letting users in during the last month, whereas the service providers have been hanging around since March.
Dec
14
Skype and 3 Mobile have joined forces to create a mobile phone that can use both normal phone networks and Skype internet telephony, PCWorld reports. Set to be available in Australia by Christmas, the ‘њ3 Skypephone’ќ lets people make free Skype-to-Skype calls and send free instant messages to other users internationally as well as accessing 3’s other network services.