The Amazon Kindle Fire is a 7 inch tablet with a high quality display, a speedy dual core processor, and the ability to run thousands of Google Android apps. But one thing Amazon’s tablet doesn’t have is a built-in microphone. You’d think that would mean you cant run sound recorders or voice communication apps such as Skype on the Kindle Fire…

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Skype has pushed out a new version of its voice, video, and text chat app for iOS. Now anyone with a supported iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad can use a Bluetooth headset to make calls from the Skype app — but the most impressive new feature is image stabilization. Now when you’re shooting video through the rear-facing camera on an…

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Skype and Facebook have been getting cozy for the past year or so, first adding a feature to Skype’s desktop client that lets you make voice or video calls to your Facebook contacts, and then this summer Facebook added support for Skype calling to its web site. Now Skype has rolled out an updated client for Windows that features even…

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If you’ve been online today you’ve probably seen that Microsoft has acquired Skype for $8.5 billion. While Microsoft has been taking a beating lately due to competition in the online world from Google, Facebook and others, and in the mobile space from Apple, Google, and others, the company is still sitting on a huge pile of cash so $8.5 billion…

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You can always find the latest news and reviews on mobile apps by visiting Mobiputing.com in a desktop browser or mobile browser. Now after spending a year covering mobile apps, Mobiputing finally has one of its own. You can download out first Android app from the Android Market. An iPhone version is coming soon. And don’t worry, a Liliputing mobile…

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Skype is probably the most popular VoIP apps for making cheap or free voice calls. You can use Skype apps on Windows, Mac, or Linux computers or on a number of smartphone platforms to make free calls to other Skype users or relatively inexpensive calls to cellphone or landline numbers. But now Skype is making it possible to make long…

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Skype is launching a promotion today that allows users to make free calls to telephone numbers from a PC or mobile device running Skype software. If you’re in the US you get the best deal, since you can make unlimited free calls to US landline and mobile numbers for a month. But the promotion isn’t just limited to US phone numbers….

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Skype lets you make free voice and video calls to other Skyper users anywhere on the planet — assuming they have Skype installed on their computer or mobile phone. But Skype also lets you make Skype-to-Phone calls using SkypeOut credits. You can either pay by the minute or purchase a monthly plan. Up until now, the only way to get…

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While you might have to wait a few more days to get your hands on an MSI Wind notebook, Doug Aamoth over at CrunchGear has been testing one out for a while. And he’s got the benchmarks and videos to prove it.Aamoth put the little computer through the paces, testing out Skype Video, DVD and HD video playback, Google Earth…

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