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Wednesday, 29th December 2010

Skype for iPhone Now Makes Video Calls

There have been rumors of video-calling coming to mobile versions of Skype for the last week or so, and now it's official: the popular VOIP service has announced an update to its iPhone app that will allow video calls over both 3G and WiFi networks. The new Skype app works on iPhone 4 and 3GS and the iPod Touch with iOS 4.0 or above. You can…

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Why 2011 May Be The Year For a Sustainable IPO Market

The IPO market may seem like a dim and distant picture for most entrepreneurs in the hardscrabble world of an early stage start-up. How about “making payroll” as a big strategic objective? Or maybe your objective is “get enough money to pay for hosting, coffee and Ramen”? But a healthy IPO market, one that…

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2011 Resolutions For SMBs: Get Serious About Security

This week on ReadWriteBiz, we're running down our list of recommended New Year's resolutions for small and medium-sized businesses. Today we discuss the importance of bolstering information security in 2011. A few weeks back, we looked at how small businesses have a tendency to be less-than-diligent about data security. Not cool, guys. Well…

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A WikiLeaks Timeline

As we mentioned before, "Wikileaks was not a story, but an ongoing continuum of stories... It's a story that is destined to keep on giving." In that short time since that post, it has indeed done just that. WikiLeaks -- its actions and the reactions to them, the implications of what has happened around the whistle-blowing site -- has given…

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Interview: How Bitcoin Created a Decentralized Crypto-Currency

Bitcoin is an open source, peer-to-peer electronic currency created by Satoshi Nakamoto and maintained by a small team of developers. As part of what's turning into an ongoing series on the distributed Web, I talked to contributor Gavin Andresen about how the software works. This is a technical overview. If you're interested in an economic or…

Hack Klint Finley comments

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