Videoconferencing Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Google+ app for iPhone updated to launch hangouts from Messenger

by Steven Sande (Jan 10th, 2012)

Do you use the video hangout feature of Google+ on a regular basis? If so, you might be happy to hear that you can now use your iPhone to join those video hangouts from the Google Messenger IM app. There's an update now available for the Google+ app that will give you the video love you ...

Cisco will launch free iPad, iPhone video app

by Michael Grothaus (Sep 30th, 2011)

Cisco is set to launch a free iPad and iPhone video app in late October, according to ComputerWorld. The free app will allow users of Cisco's Show and Share software to upload, view, and exchange videos with each other. Show and Share, which is currently available on some Android tablets, ...

Group video chat coming to iPhone via fring

by Chris Rawson (Apr 5th, 2011)

fring is working on a group video chat implementation for its iOS and Android apps. The update will eventually allow users to chat with up to four participants on-screen at once; fring's developers are allowing users to sign up for a beta version so that they can test it out before it's officially ...

Jailbroken iPhone 3GS gets FaceTime... sort of

by Chris Rawson (Nov 7th, 2010)

Jailbreaking team iPhoneIslam has managed to enable FaceTime on a jailbroken iPhone 3GS... sort of. iPhoneIslam's app, "FaceIt-3GS," is currently available in the Cydia store, and allows users to enable FaceTime in the iPhone 3GS's Settings app. However, the functionality is quite limited. The ...

iChatAgent process shows up in iPhone OS 4.0 -- video conferencing coming?

by Michael Grothaus (Apr 8th, 2010)

As expected, Apple didn't introduce any new iPhone hardware today; knowing Steve Jobs & co., they still want to save some surprises when they unveil the 4G iPhone later this summer. Could one of those surprises be a front-facing camera with iChat support? Close TUAW reader AW sent us this ...

Jerome, where's my mirror?

by Joshua Ellis (Jun 16th, 2008)

Gizmodo's Jesus Diaz has a wonderful solution to the problem of videoconferencing on your 3G iPhone: compact, convenient and battery-free! Okay, we get it: a camera on the front of the iPhone is probably a pretty useful idea. Although there's something oddly compelling about turning a ...

CamCamX: Spice up your video chats and get more out of them

by David Chartier (Aug 20th, 2007)

For those who want to spice up their video conferences and would like to use their iSight (or other webcam) with more than one application simultaneously, CamCamX might just be the app for you. Offering an old-school UI for mixing movies and images into your video conferences, CamCamX allows you ...

Mirror-enabled videoconferencing on the iPhone

by Mike Schramm (Aug 13th, 2007)

The iPhone application community continues to amaze me-- this time, Engadget's got the heads up on an iPhone video conferencing system, made possible by not only a cool little piece of code (designed for a C4 contest) that fetches an iPhone's camera input and feeds it out to another iPhone via a ...

Skype w/video leaked, will destroy your Mac

by Conrad Quilty-Harper (Jun 29th, 2006)

According to a Skype developer, an old and unstable version of Skype for Mac has been leaked onto file sharing networks across the globe. If you spot this file, do not download it! "It is an internal unstable development version, and thus it is extremely buggy" and "it will destroy your contacts and ...