Internet calling service Skype plans a public “beta” test of a group video chat function that lets up to five people participate in a video call simultaneously.
When the feature launches next week it will be free, but Skype Ltd. plans to start charging for it along with some other upcoming features in three or four [...]

Online faxing is rapidly making stand-alone fax machines obsolete. Several companies now offer online faxing services, often as part of a complete business communications package.
Here are some of the advantages of online faxing:
* There are no busy signals to contend with since there is no dialing to be done.
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Google’s rumoured Android telly expected to appear at the Google I/O conference in May.
Google’s new Android-running TVs might be coming sooner rather than later, with the Wall Street Journal reporting that Google will likely unveil the new service later this month.
Google’s Android TVs and set top boxes would allow viewers access to the internet, stream [...]

Search titan Google has added a virtual onscreen keyboard to its service, one that will prove to be particularly useful for those trying to enter foreign characters using a traditional QWERTY keyboard.
Manish Bhargava, Product Manager at Google, described the frustration that some Google users face when they have to type in their local languages scripts. [...]

Google owned video sharing service YouTube had been beta testing a new version of their video player on the network.
The new video player is now being served on nearly all the videos hosted on YouTube.
Embedded videos are but still showing the older player.
The new user interface is a major change from all the previous YouTube [...]

Yahoo Inc. stresses that it’s still in the online search business, but a series of papers and presentations the company is unveiling at a major conference this week underscore how navigating the Web has less to do with the search box and blue links we know so well.
Instead, Internet surfers are increasingly relying on social [...]

Fake antivirus software is becoming more prevalent on the Internet, with its creators using clever methods to fool users into installing the programs, according to a new report from Google.
Google conducted a 13-month study looking at some 240 million web pages. The company determined that 11,000 of those domains were involved in distributing fake antivirus [...]