There’s a battle brewing in the mobile messaging and VoIP market for mobile phones…and, for once, the controversy doesn’t surround the iPhone and AT&T. VoIP operator Skype has blocked third-party ...

Last March, Steve Jobs opened the door to iPhone VoIP applications. They had to run over WiFi and couldn't burden AT&T's cellular data network. Now just a few months after the App Store made its debut ...

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The launch of the iPhone 4 may have brought mobile video calling to the public's attention, but, the fact is, the capability has been available for some time from software makers both large and small.

The problem with Apple’s iPhone 4 Facetime commercial is that not everyone has an iPhone 4, and that’s just not happening. Fortunately there’s Fring, which now allows video calls to PCs and other ...

November 19, 2009 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google iPhone/Windows Mobile/Android/Symbian: Fring, the app that means to let anyone make free Skype, Google Talk, ...

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Fring's app for "jailbroken" iPhones allows for semi-free VoIP calls--as long as you've got a Wi-Fi connection handy. Josh Lowensohn joined CNET in 2006 and now covers Apple. Before that, Josh wrote ...

Sometimes chatting with your friends and colleagues on the Internet can feel like tracking down a great diaspora across continents and seas, with one person logging on at AIM, while another prefers ...

FaceTime competitor Fring has two cards up its sleeve, one of which is the capability to make two-way video calls over not only Wi-Fi, but also 3G. Jessica Dolcourt VP, Content Operations and Commerce ...