Skype 4.0 Beta for Windows makes it even easier to start conversations and keep track of your friends – plus video calls look better than ever. Why 4.0 Beta? Check out this video.

The beta version now has a complete redesign. It is now easy to juggle conversations and also do a face-to-face video at the click of a button.

Here are some of the features that will be supported in Skype 4.0 Beta for Windows soon:

• Auto Redial
• Call Transfer
• Send Money
• Sending contacts to other people on Skype
• Skype Prime
• Skypecasts (incl. Moderator Controls)
• View Outlook Contacts

Here’s some video by Mike Bartlett, Director, Windows Product Management, Skype Read the rest of this entry »

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Subscribers to Malaysian Internet service provider JARING’s Internet telephone service will be able to make and receive direct calls to Malaysian mobile service provider Celcom subscribers .

This marks the first interconnection for an Internet telephony system to a cellular operator in Malaysia that was approved by the government agency Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) in February.

According to Dr Mohamed bin Awang Lah (picture), chief executive of JARING Communications, “We are proud MCMC gave us the opportunity to boost up TSoIP development in Malaysia, placing Malaysia at par with other developed countries.”

“This move makes JARING’s MY015 service virtually borderless, allowing our subscribers to make and receive calls from anywhere in the world at a fraction of fixed line and mobile rates, simply because every call is routed through the Internet ,” added Dr Mohamed.

Telephony Service over Internet Protocol (TSoIP) allows subscribers to make a call directly from a computer, a special TSoIP phone, or a traditional phone connected to a special broadband phone adapter. Also, wireless “hot spots” in locations such as airports, parks, buildings and cafes allow subscribers to connect to the Internet and use the VoIP service wirelessly.

Subscribers to JARING MY015 services are given one phone line and phone number with a prefix of 0154.

JARING’s MY105 service can be used through multiple communications devices ranging from mobile phones, soft phones on their PCs and laptops and even physical IP phones on their premises.

JARING has been allocated with 0154 81X XXXX numbering block by MCMC that enables JARING to serve as many as 100,000 subscribers and more with additional blocks of numbers.

This is a non-geographic numbering system that allows subscribers to communicate with each other at a distance-independent call rate anywhere through broadband connection – even on an airline flight equipped with WIFI access.-ComputerWorld Malaysia

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In a deal that will connect two of the largest Internet services, MySpace, the social network owned by the News Corporation, will announce on Wednesday that it is teaming up with Skype, the Internet telephone service owned by eBay. Read the rest of this entry »

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