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Skype brings video calling to iPhone

Good news for iPhone owners wanting to make video calls to Skype users - video calling comes to the Skype app.

iPhone 4 owners already have the ability to make video calls over WiFi networks using the FaceTime feature, but the new video calling feature built into the Skype app now supports video calling to both mobile and desktop Skype apps, and over both 3G and WiFi networks - for free.

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RIM thought original iPhone impossible

Cast your memory back to 2007, when most ‘smartphones’ still had what Steve Jobs referred to as that ugly ‘lower 40 percent’ – the place where all the buttons go. And shortly thereafter he revealed a completely touchscreen handset – the original iPhone.

While millions of tech lovers worldwide were gob smacked in disbelief at how the tech work, RIM, the makers of the BlackBerry, did not believe the tech actually worked, so claims a former employee of the company.

10^th January was all-hands on deck day

According to Electronista, a former employee said that RIM had a full-on internal panic in the wake of the iPhone’s unveiling, as well as multiple all-hands-on-deck meetings on 10 January 2007, a day after the iPhone was unveiled.

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