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‘Firefox Hello’ Video Chat Service Takes on Facetime, Skype, and Viber

In case you are wondering what the little smiley face is in the upper right-hand corner of Firefox, it’s how you access the Firefox Hello service. The Firefox Hello service is Firefox’s answer to Skype, Viber, and other similar voice and video chat services.

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Airtime – Like Chatroulette Only Without the Exposed Genitals (Includes Airtime How-to)

Chatroulette founder Andrey Ternovskiy acknowledged that the Chatroulette video chat site that he founded when he was 17 had..problems, primarily that users of Chatroulette liked to expose themselves. But Ternovskiy believed in Chatroulette, so strongly, in fact, that he moved to Palo Alto, the hotbed of startup funding. Nonetheless, Chatroulette essentially tanked, in large part owing to the X-rated material. Enter Napster co-founders Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker, who have now co-founded Airtime, a randomized video-chat service which they say has all the fun of Chatroulette, without the exposed private parts. They have even managed to raise $33 million dollars in investments from top-shelf Silicon Valley venture funds.

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Facebook Announces Skype Integration for Video Calling

Facebook announced today that it has integrated Skype into the Facebook framework, to allow users to make video calls right from Facebook. The announcement took place days after Google soft-launched the new Google social network, Google+, which also includes a video chat feature in the form of G+ Hangouts.

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New iPhone 4 Features Video Calls, Multitasking, Front and Rear Cameras, HD Video Camera and iMovie Onboard!

Apple has released a promotional video of the new iPhone 4 (or iPhone IV, for those into Roman numerals), and it looks pretty incredible. The new iPhone 4.0 has front and rear facing cameras (with a built-in flash), takes HD video, and has iMovie onboard! But that’s not all! It also has true video calling And video chat – during which you can switch between the front and rear cameras – and multitasking switching between apps!