As frankps sees the world!

I guess this might be the next big thing for VoIP. I am at least mighty impressed! I have for some time been looking for a new mobilephone, and today I bought a Nokia E60 for 1 NOK, simply cause it has built in wifi. Why? I wanted to start using Fring. Fring is for now at least free, and is a multi IM client supporting Google Talk, Skype and MSN. Fring is making use of a patent pending P2P Mobile VoIP technology. The requirements are a Nokia Symbian-based phone with GPRS, UMTS and wifi. As […] Continue reading →

Well, I hope this will be happening in the nearby future. As my mom started using both Google Talk and Gmail (yes, they are allowed to call it Gmail in Norway), the need for having them both available in Norwegian Bokmål was there. Somebody had already translated Gmail, and I am happy to say I am half through translating Google Talk. I hope my contribution will be accepted, and that somebody will step up and review the translations. […] Continue reading →

To all of you using Google Talk, it’s time to upgrade. For those of you haven’t tried it yet, well now is the time. The developer team release a new version March 31st with many great new features: Avatars – People that have an older version of Google Talk will have a blue, red, yellow or green silhouette of a person as their avatar. You can choose between some beautiful looking avatars or make some of your own. Avatars should be saved as Bitmaps (.bmp) and in the size […] Continue reading →

I’m a frequent reader of the Google Talkabout blog. The software engineer Gary Burd today announced that google talk had turned on server-server connections. From today on Google Talk and Jabber users can communicate with each other over any jabber server deployed. So if you are a Google Talk user you just another 186.000 users on the jabber.org server that you can chat with.It’s great to see how Google is developing their consumer IM service based on the jabber protocol. […] Continue reading →

I am a great fan of Google Talk and one of the early adopters. Building an instant message client based on open standards is the way to assure cross platform compatibility. An Google has reached just that with clients for the protocol early being available for Windows, MacOS X, Linux and ZETA. Today Google reached another milestone with their announcement of Google Talk for Blackberry. For more information head over to the Google Talk Development Blog. […] Continue reading →