Skype Adds Video Support for Mac OS
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Communications company Skype released a beta of its latest client for the Mac OS Wednesday, adding video support to the client that would permit cross-platform video calls.
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Sony&#39;s new double-layer DVD player for the Mac will give Macintosh users access to higher-capacity removable storage. The device, which is available in both internal and external versions, can record up to four hours of video on a single disk.
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It's the preferred tool for Mac OS X Server file sharing and user management. Ryan Faas gives you tips and tricks for how to make it work for you.
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Microsoft outlined a new feature that will be included in Office 2008 for Mac.
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Dolby announced that its Media Encoder software will run natively on Intel-based Macs.
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Fonelink software is aimed at helping transfer media and other content between a Mac and a mobile phone.
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&quot;Skype is expanding the range of complementary platforms to provide consumers with choice and flexibility alongside the quality gains and cost-savings of modern calling,&quot; says Skype CEO Niklas ZennstrÃ¶m.
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California's Apple Computer Co. will unveil a product that streams video and music from a Macintosh computer or the Internet to a television.
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After putting Leopard through its paces, Dean Takahashi (San Jose Mercury News) finds it is aptly namedââItâs fast and sleekââand concludes that the latest version of Mac OS X âgives Apple [an] advantage over Microsoft.â It offers âmore than 300 new features, making it the biggest upgrade in a long time,â and âa lot of the features allow you to do things more quickly and more easily.â That includes iChat, which, he says, âgot a good makeover. Besides doing video chats with the built-in Webcams on Macs, you can now use them to share any kind of file with the person youâre chatting with. You can also take over that friendâs desktop in case youâre diagnosing the machine from afar.â
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Skype launched a version of its Internet telephony package for Mac owners on Tuesday, as it battles a growing number of competitors offering VoIP products.
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Steve Jobs' keynote address to WWDC 2007 attendees can now be viewed as a video on demand using QuickTime.
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Compatible with both Macs and PCs, they cost from $149 will be available beginning in June.
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Jyve, the world's first live "Ask" engine, will be available to users of Skype, the Internet communications company, as a featured (add-on) "Extra for Skype" in Skype version 3.0.
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Call Recorder for Skype has been updated with new options and a variety of bug fixes.
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Skype has been forced to turn off a video-sharing feature in its software because it could be misused to launch a self-copying worm attack against Skype users, security researchers said Tuesday.A bug in the software, which was first reported last Thursday by security researcher Aviv Raff, stems from the way Skype uses an Internet Explorer component to render HTML.Skype&#39;s video-sharing feature allows users to share videos hosted on two sites -- Dailymotion.com and Metacafe.com -- while chatting with other Skype users.Last week Raff showed how attackers could exploit the bug to run unauthorized software on a Skype user&#39;s PC. But on Tuesday, the security researcher said the flaw was more serious than he&#39;d first thought. It can &quot;be triggered by simply visiting a Web site, or clicking on a link from your instant messaging application,&quot; he wrote in a blog posting, &quot;Which basically means that this vulnerability is now wormable.&quot;Skype appeared to have pulled the video feature from its client software on Tuesday as a result of the bug. Users who attempted to click on the &quot;videos&quot; button within a chat window were greeted with a message that the feature was unavailable &quot;because of some security concerns.&quot;&quot;Our brightest engineers are rattling their wrenches to make things all right and bring the beloved videos back. Soon,&quot; the message read. &quot;Sorry about this.&quot;Skpe representatives did not return calls seeking comment. Last week, Skype spokesman Villu Arak confirmed that there was a security problem for Skype 3.5 and 3.6 users who visited the Dailymotion.com Web site, but users were still able to share videos using Metacafe.com.On Tuesday, however, Skype pulled the video feature altogether after being informed of the new problem, Raff said.Because Metacafe had a cross-site scripting flaw, a common type of programming error, Raff was able to run JavaScript on Metacafe.com, which could then be used to run unauthorized software on the victim&#39;s computer. Attackers could then forward a link to the malicious Web page to all of the Skype contacts in the victim&#39;s computer, spreading the infection.For Raff&#39;s attack to work, an attacker would have to post a maliciously encoded video file to either of the Metacafe or Dailymotion Web sites. Metacafe said Tuesday that it&#39;s &quot;highly unlikely&quot; that this kind of malicious video would make it through the site&#39;s content-filtering process.In a statement, the company said it expects Metacafe videos to be available to Skype users as early as Wednesday morning.Raff said that because the attack could lead to a widespread worm outbreak, it would be better for Skype to fix the underlying problem before bringing Metacafe back online.Raff believes that Dailymotion was probably susceptible to this type of attack as well, although he was unable to confirm this after Skype cut off access to the Web site.The problem lies in the fact that Skype uses a Windows Internet Explorer component with inappropriate security settings, researchers say. Instead of processing pages it renders with the more secure &quot;Internet Zone&quot; security setting, Skype uses IE&#39;s &quot;Local Zone&quot; security setting, usually reserved for more trustworthy content.Until Skype engineers make some changes to their software, more of these problems will continue to pop up, Raff said.Another security researcher who has been studying the flaw agreed.&quot;If they keep their Skype client running in the Local Zone of IE, we will see more of these,&quot; said Petko Petkov of GNU Citizen via instant message. &quot;Before killing Metacafe, anyone who owns the server would have been able to own every Skype user on the planet.&quot;
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(InfoWorld) - SkypeÂ released the beta version of Skype 2.2, a software client that allows Windows Mobile smart phones to access the company's VOIP (voice over Internet Protocol) service over Wi-Fi connections. Previous versions of the software were compatible with Windows Pocket PC devices. The beta works on 120 different Windows Mobile devices, Skype said. Users in range of a free Wi-Fi network can make free VOIP calls to other Skype customers. Users can also pay via their SkypeIn and SkypeOut accounts to receive and make calls to landline phones. New features in Skype 2.2 for Windows Mobile include an enhanced screen with presence status and notification of events such as missed calls and voicemails. The client also now supports secure connections including HTTPS, HTTPS/SSL, and SOCKS5 proxies. Skype recently said that it has seen 5 million downloads of Skype for Pocket PC. Skype promotes the use of its mobile client over Wi-Fi, not over cellular networks. Mobile operators have largely resisted Skype and some have even blocked the service because it can compete with their own voice offerings. But operators would have trouble blocking Skype calls over Wi-Fi networks, which they typically don't control. Last month, 3 Group broke from its competitors andÂ introduced a new data offeringÂ that enables customers to make and receive Skype calls over its 3G network. The service is initially available only on a single Nokia phone model and is supported via iSkoot, a company offering software that enables Skype on mobile phones. In October, Eric Lagier, Skype's head of mobile development, said that the company would introduceÂ a client that would run on Symbian phonesÂ by the end of the year. Fans of Symbian, the most popular smart phone operating system, are still eagerly awaiting the much-delayed Skype client.ADVERTISEMENTNEW IT SERVICES FROM IBM: EASIER TO BUY AND IMPLEMENTDiscover a simpler, more cost-effective way to get the solutions your company needs to grow more flexible and efficient.
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Skype for Windows, Skype for Pocket PC and Skype for Linux -- Skype for Mac OS X is free. Skype users can control their online presence and