Important Announcement

Ok I know this is a bit late in coming but I’d like to apologize and explain my absence for the past week or so. A lot has happened in the last few days folks; Android 2.2 has been launched, new laptops & netbooks have hit the market, BP’s attempts at trying to curb the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico have failed miserably. Yep…stuff happens fast.

I happen to have exams in two weeks; I have a couple of project presentations to make, and a research paper to write. As you can well imagine, my plate is more than full right now. So in the interest of all concerned I have put a lid on the blog for a while so I can focus on my studies. Rest assured, I shall return soon with more info for you guys. But for the next month or so, I’m pretty much out of action here. Tech stuff happens fast, and you need to keep your finger on the pulse constantly so as not to miss out on anything. But articles and posts take time; that’s why it’s tough to do so when it’s such a fleeting commodity.

I hope you can understand. Peace.

Peace.

Skype Goes Multi Facial: Simultaneous Video Conferencing For Upto 5 People

Good news for Skype users. The company has added conference calling features which enable users to host video chats for upto 5 people at a time, as opposed to the more common stable version which allows only one person per video conference. The only pre requisite is that each of them has to have a Web cam and Skype 5.0 beta installed on a Windows PC in order for video conferencing to work. This limitation could get in testers’ ways, but those are to be expected anyway since this happens to be a beta build. It became available on Thursday as a free download.

Skype certainly isn’t the first to bring video conferencing to everyday users. The free Skype competitor VoxOx offers video conferencing for up to three callers; the freemium ooVoo can support up to six.