Viber News & Articles

It’s a huge hit in the wealthy city-state of Monaco, used by about 90% of that population. And now, the Cyprus-based calling/messaging service Viber -- one of Skype’s start-up competitors -- is reporting that its worldwide user base has soared to 175 million. 

Anyone looking for a Skype alternative or simply needing a free call and text app for their BlackBerry? The very popular Viber may be the perfect choice.

Israeli free mobile communication platform provider Viber Media is releasing what it calls a “fun” version of its Viber messaging/phone call app as the company tries to establish itself as a global player in the mobile communication market.

Global No. 3 communications service provider, Telefonica has had enough of users going with Skype and other solutions for off-network communications. It now offers its own app, TU Me, for iPhone users to chat, share and message, with Android support coming soon.

HD Voice company Viber's (news, site) public release of its Android app gives it a great chance at becoming the next Skype.

Microsoft's whopping US$ 8.5 billion purchase of Skype is probably good news for a large pool of video chat users, but there's undoubtedly those who are worried about the possible implications of the acquisition. While there's no exact clone of Skype floating around out there, a number of tools would still make great alternatives for those that fall into the latter category:

Microsoft (news, site) has confirmed that it is buying Skype, making the product ubiquitous across MS's Windows universe, Xbox games consoles and phones. But what have the two companies got to say for themselves, as they speak in public for the first time?

This week the enterprise world saw BlackBerry make Bing its default search engine, an invitation to shout at your computer screen, and a bit of solid competition for Skype. 

Viber (news, site) is the coming-up-on-the-rails alternative to Skype that offers better quality calls and is now available to the massive Android army.

Having launched offering HD Voice, Viber (news, site) gets even more vibe in V2.0 with free texts and other improvements.

Skype's (news, site) new service helps users make calls from any phone, regardless of type, via a special phone number system.

Facebook's (news, site) new Messenger App could blow a big hole in existing VoIP services and wreck the market for newcomers.

Last year, Viber made a fair impact as an mobile app alternative to Skype VoIP. With a new technology partner on-board, could it now be about to go stellar? 

If we can trust Jakob Nielsen and his latest report studying social networking on intranets, then next year is going to be interesting.

Nielsen went straight to various companies -- from Sprint to IBM to Johnson & Johnson -- to see how they are dealing with the increasing expectation that Web 2.0 will drive Enterprise 2.0. The quick answer, they’re not.

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Wojmamni ana naiki, A.K.A. Joomla! 1.5.14 was released a mere eight days after the announcement of version 1.5.13, rather than the typical 6-8 weeks the open source CMS team usually waits for a follow up. The release fixes a total of 3 errors, two of which were small bugs introduced in 1.5.13, and a low-level security issue:

• Security: In com_mailto, it was possible to bypass timeout protection against sending automated emails.
• Components: Fixed error message in Media Manager
• Plugins: Fixed callback error message in TinyMCE editor

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