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Thursday, 28th January 2010

VoIP Over 3G Comes to the iPhone - And Maybe Even the iPad

Yesterday's iPad launch continues to dominate the tech news today. Besides announcing the iPad, however, Apple also quietly announced a major change to its iPhone policies yesterday: Apple now allows developers to use a 3G connection to make VoIP calls. The first application to make use of this is iCall (iTunes link), but chances are that Skype…

Frederic Lardinois comments

Facebook Status Messages are the New Chain Emails

"This status is being tracked. The owners of Facebook have confirmed they will send $1 to the rescue fund for Haiti every time this is cut and paste as a status." Sound familiar? This recent status message hoax has been making its way around the popular social network, duping members into posting the status as their own in the hopes that, by…

Social Sarah Perez comments

Americans Sending 4 Times as Many Text Messages as Brits

There was a turning point a couple of years ago when it was suddenly undeniable: It was either text message or be left behind. If you were paying for it by the message, you suddenly had to find a plan, because you started having more and more friends that wouldn't talk any other way. Well, we're wondering if it has finally reached that point in the…

Mike Melanson comments

Wednesday, 27th January 2010

5 Reasons to Wait for iPad 2.0

With yesterday's reveal of the iPad now past, we can finally put myth and speculation behind us and focus on the reality that is Apple's entry into the tablet PC business. Whether the iPad is revolutionary or evolutionary is still hotly debated, but what we do know is that the computer, despite its elegance and blazing fast speed, is a decidedly…

Sarah Perez comments

Larry Ellison: Now He Has His Eyes on an NBA Basketball Team

Larry Ellison completed Oracle's purchase of Sun this week. Now he is making it clear he wants a professional basketball team. There have been rumors for months that Ellison wanted to purchase the beleaguered Golden State Warriors, a National Basketball Association team out of the San Francisco Bay area.

Enterprise Alex Williams comments

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