Video conference call

ooVoo is a video conferencing tool that has recently launched. ooVoo provides video conferencing for up to five users, as well as a video messaging tool, and files and text messages can be sent while holding a video conference. Video messages can be sent via email to friends that have not signed up for the service. ooVoo must be downloaded, which always raises the potential for people to be hesitant to start using your service. You can also create an ooVoo widget with your photo, to encourage people to instantly start a video chat with you or add you as an ooVoo contact. This widget can be placed on your MySpace, hi5 and ***

Even in these times of rapid technology development, changes in consumer behavior can be a maddeningly slow process. Anyone who's followed the emergence of IP services since the late 1990s has endured a steady diet of hype surrounding voice over Internet Protocol, or VoIP. The dream for VoIP enthusiasts has always been the retirement of the dinosaur-age public switched telephone network in favor of a more dynamic, connectionless network using the Internet Protocol. It's fair to say that at least part of this dream has been fulfilled. New companies such as ***

The latest version of Skype's Internet-calling software can host up to 10 users on a conference call, but only if your PC has a dual-core processor from Intel, Skype and Intel announced Wednesday. Intel's Core Duo and Pentium D processors have been designated the mass conference-calling processor of choice for Skype 2.0, launched last month. The limit will remain at five callers for PCs using single-core chips and Advanced Micro Devices' dual-core Athlon 64 chip, which some tests have shown outperforms Intel's dual-core chip. Skype's software allows PC users to make free voice calls to other Skype users over the Internet and to call cell phones and landlines for a fee. Dual-core processors are basically two processing engines crammed onto a single piece of silicon. ***