The Government has offered Australia's three mobile operators, and vividwireless, renewal of their existing spectrum allocated on 15 year licences in the late 90s and early 2000s at set prices, while the Government expects to rake in $3 billion.
Skype 5.0 beta 2.0 replaces 5.0 beta 1 released in May that brought multi-party video to Skype for the first time, supporting up to five parties (all must be running the new version to participate in a 10 party conference).
Announcing the new version on Skype's blog, Skype's blogger-in-chief, Peter Parkes, said: "The second beta of Skype 5.0 brings a number of changes both outside and in…It welcomes in a fresh new look, as well as increased stability and better quality when making group video calls….
"We’ve also added Skype Home, where you can follow your contacts' mood messages, set your profile picture and mood message, receive account notifications and learn more about using Skype."
Parkes said call quality had been improved and a number of bugs fixed. "his version also includes automatic call recovery, which should help automatically reconnect Skype calls that are interrupted due to network problems."
When the first beta was announced in May, Skype promised videoconferencing support for the Mac version, "later in 2010," but there has been no further news on this.
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