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Apple iPhone 5 Coverage Brings down Engadget
Engadget a popular tech blogs appear to be down. Engadget is completely offline which Gizmodo initially partially loaded for me. But after a refresh Gizmodo appears back to normal. All this due to the live blogging coverage of the iPhone...
Google Bankrolls $100M to Get into Video Entertainment Biz
Last week I reported how Amazon should buy HBO or at least start creating their own TV shows and movies so they can be in control of their own destiny. I also mentioned last week Apple and Google as also...
Don't Let Wi-Fi Device Onslaught Bring Enterprise Wi-Fi To Its Knees
If you are an IT or network administrator, you already know you've lost the battle against users BYOD (Bring-Your-Own-Device) to work. Now your job is to support everything from the Apple iPad, to Blackberries, to Android devices, to new tablets...
Why Amazon Should Buy HBO from Time Warner
I was just thinking about how Amazon’s goal is to subsidize their new Kindle Fire by selling content – in particular video content, which can then be streamed using their Amazon Prime “Netflix-like” service. In fact, on Monday Amazon...
Kindle Fire Silk Browser Proxying Stokes Privacy Concerns
The new Amazon Kindle Fire will use Amazon's very own completely new Web browser called Silk that leverages Amazon's EC2 architecture to proxy and cache web content for faster performance. You might think of it as something similar to Opera...
Amazon Kindle Fire - Hot or Not?
The Amazon Kindle Fire 7-inch tablet aims to take on the Apple iPad, but will the Fire catch fire with consumers? Amazon has loyal Kindle e-reader users, but part of its draw is the e-ink screen which works in...
Apple iPad - Your Next Desktop Phone?
I've been thinking about how the Apple iPad could really disrupt the VoIP space and become your next desktop phone. Think about the impact to companies such as Cisco, Polycom, Aastra, snom, Grandstream, and others. While these companies do offer...
XSS Exploit in Skype Lets Hackers Steal iPhone Address Book
If you are using Skype for iPhone or iPod Touch, your Address Book can be compromised and stolen using a simple chat message. It leverages a Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability within the "Chat Message" window in Skype 3.0.1 and earlier versions...
Daring Fireball Gets It - Windows 8 Will Rival the iPad
Daring Fireball's John Gruber is as avid an Apple fan, enthusiast, zealot, freak, etc. as you will find on the Internet. Saying anything complimentary about Microsoft or Windows is akin to a Red Sox fan giving the Yankees a compliment....
Hookflash for iPad Launches
Hookflash is skipping the iPhone and jumping right to the larger screen iPad to offer their feature-rich peer-to-peer communications and social media app. This goes to the heart of an article I've been thinking about for months about how the...
magicJack Plus Update
Here are some updates for the magicJack Plus, which I recently reviewed.The magicJack Plus will be officially available this week on www.magicJack.com and will be available in major retailers before the holidays.Other important updates: Number porting capability will be included....
HTC Unveils HTC TITAN 4.7" and 3.8" Radar Smartphones
HTC has unveiled HTC TITAN (image above), its largest screen smartphone featuring a 4.7 inch WVGA 480x800 pixel display and the smaller 3.8 inch HTC Radar, both of which run on Windows Phone 7.5 Mango operating system. The HTC TITAN...
Steve Jobs the Man, the Myth, the Legend: How it began.
I grew up as a computer geek in the late 70s through the 80s into the 90s admiring Bill Gates much more than Steve Jobs. Steve Jobs was just "that other computer guy" whose computers were used by less than...
Microsoft front-facing cameras, Skype & Lync Mobile client Coming Very Very Soon
Microsoft confirmed Mango Windows Phone 7 handsets would sport a front facing camera as well as Skype integration and a mobile Lync client. The confirmation came via the TechEd event in New Zealand, where two Microsoft employees mentioned that Microsoft's...
Skype (Microsoft) Blows $85 Million on GroupMe
Skype was in talks with GroupMe to acquire them before Microsoft's (pending approval) bought Skype. With Microsoft purchasing Skype you would have thought Microsoft would have squashed any pending purchases by Skype or at least approve them. The fact that...
The Demise of the HP TouchPad Plus "The Value of VoIP"
I wrote this morning about HP's surrender to Apple in the PC, laptop, and tablet space. Ironically, I just happened to glance at a CDW catalog sitting on my desk and saw this: Click for larger viewA now defunct HP...
The Apple Downgrade Kills HP
We all know about the S&P downgrade caused by the rating agency's view of U.S.'s debt and debt ceiling. S&P saw the writing on the wall that U.S. is on the road to insolvency and default on the debt. Well,...
Skype releases Skype 5.3 for Mac OS X
Today, Skype released Skype 5.3 for Mac OS X, with a number of fixes and some notable improvements, including HD video calling. In addition to an improved user interface, Skype 5.3 will feature support for the new Mac Lion operating...
Vonage Time to Call iPhone App Makes Cheap International Calls
Vonage today launched Time to Call for the iPhone, a new mobile VoIP app that aims to deliver low-cost international calling. Vonage claims Time to Call is the first downloadable app that allows pay-per-call international dialing to more than 190...
Twilio, the Cloud-based VoIP/Skype App Enabler
Today, Twillio is launching their cloud-based VoIP offering that enables developers to add VoIP capabilities to any website with just three lines of code. Twilio's VoIP developer toolkit called “Twilio Client” enables realtime two-ray audio to voice-enable browsers, iOS, and...
Facebook Launching HTML5 Skype App?
I've griped for awhile about the lack of VoIP or video calling within Facebook and even pointed out some 3rd party Facebook VoIP "kludges", but none truly gained much traction. Well, tomorrow today, Facebook will be making two huge announcements....
FTC Lets Intel into the Nortel Patent Sweepstakes
The FTC has given Intel permission to bid on assets being sold by bankrupt Nortel Networks Corp, joining Apple, Google, Ericsson, and others in the high-stakes patent sweepstakes that can have a dramatic impact on the mobile and telecom...
Upgrade to iOS 5 Now via Ridiculously Easy Hack
It appears iOS 5 has already been jailbroken and you can even install it now without a developer account, which costs money. First, go download the iOS 5 IPSW file. Then update your iPhone using typical iTunes method - connect...
Blue Jeans Network Bridges Skype, SIP, H.323 for Multipoint Telepresence Solution
Blue Jeans Network has been quietly developing a new cloud-based video conferencing and collaboration service that bridges H.323 and SIP end-points, PSTN — and even Skype, with the goal of allowing users to connect everything from high-end video telepresence systems...
The HTML5 Revolution
When Steve Jobs and Apple blocked Adobe Flash from Apple's popular line of mobile devices (iPhone, iPad, iPod touch), Apple's main claims against Flash were that it was too processor-heavy, a battery hog, and that HTML5 was a better standard...
