Somewhat overshadowed by today's news that Skype is partnering with Facebook comes a long expected announcement from the VOIP company: it is also partnering with telephony company Avaya to offer unified communication services. This follows Skype moving its business focused Skype Connect service out of beta. Of the "big three"...
Reportedly, Internet retailer Amazon.com is at work building its own standalone mobile application store for Google Android devices that would possibly appear on Amazon's own Android-based tablet computers. Amazon has yet to comment on these rumors, but gadget site SlashGear recently got its hands on what appears to be the...
Networking giant Cisco offers super-fancy "telepresence" video conferencing studios for rent in major cities around the world, but now the futuristic service will be made available to consumers for home use, according to reports.Kara Swisher writes this morning that telepresence systems will be sold for between $200 and $500 and...
These days, blogging isn't just about sitting down at a keyboard with a cup of coffee and writing a wordy post. Blogging now also means sharing pictures, video and other media, and it means doing so at a moment's notice from wherever you are. WordPress, the Web's most popular content...
The Obama administration is pushing for new regulations governing Internet communications, giving broader authority to federal law enforcement to wiretap the Web. New regulations will be sent to Congress next year, The New York Times reports, that would require online companies to build in "back doors" for law enforcement, making...
Earlier this summer we told you about the launch of Firefox Home, an iPhone app developed by Mozilla that allows users of the popular Web browser to take their bookmarks and browsing history with them on-the-go. Since a full-blown mobile Firefox client would likely be turned away by App Store...
In its climb up the social networking ladder, Twitter - the service that many mainstream Internet users still like to equate with inexplicably sharing what you had for lunch - has surpassed former social networking giant Myspace in unique visitors.The Wall Street Journal reports that new data from comScore puts...
Video calling is slowly moving from a science fiction fantasy that often caught consumers' imagination but never quite caught on in the marketplace to a daily reality for a lot of Internet users. According to a new survey the VoIP company Rebtel commissioned from Harris Interactive, 14% of U.S. adults...
If you can believe it, a company called CheckPoints has just come up with yet another twist on how "check-in" location-based services applications should work. With its new smartphone application, consumers are rewarded for scanning the barcodes of their favorite products while shopping. The scans add up to points which...
At the BlackBerry Developers Conference today, RIM announced its first tablet, called the BlackBerry PlayBook, as well as new initiatives designed to make BlackBerry development easier and more profitable. As previously reported elsewhere, the tablet will run on QNX, a UNIX-like operating system RIM acquired earlier this year. Notably, RIM...
Gilad Elbaz's last company was acquired by Google and became AdSense, the source of 30% of Google's revenue. His new company, Factual, is a marketplace for live, collaboratively and algorithmically maintained bulk data. This month Factual has announced that it now offers read and write access to 14 million U.S....
The open source microblogging service StatusNet - the power behind identi.ca - announced today the release of its iPhone app. The app makes it easy to connect via mobile to a StatusNet site, and it supports posting from an iPhone, sending attachments, as well as following public, profile and friends'...
Today at the RIM (Research in Motion) developer conference, the BlackBerry makers introduced a new member to it's family - the BlackBerry PlayBook. The PlayBook is a 7-inch "professional" touch screen tablet device which features a 1024x600 display, multi-touch gestures and a 1 GHz dual-core processor. One of the more...
Hossein Derakhshan, the Canadian-Iranian blogger arrested in 2008, is now facing the death penalty in Iran. After innovating a method for using Unicode to blog in Persian, and speaking up for free speech, Hoder changed his tune, defending the Iranian regime and attacking former colleagues. In October of 2008 he...
A new mobile application helps would-be boycotters target, or avoid, goods and services that come solely from Israeli settlements in the West Bank. Buy No Evil is a free Android app built by the two Israeli bloggers Noam Rotem (the programmer) and Itamar Sha'altiel (the idea man), in conjunction with...
Here's something you don't hear that often from Microsoft. A number of new releases out on the three-month anniversary of its newest software offering.More usual is the two-year gap as is the case with most software companies that have been in the business for any period of time.But this past...
Blackberry maker RIM has seen its market share rapidly decline in recent months, at least that's what analystshave been saying. But according to new data from Statcounter (by way of Royal Pingdom), Blackberry is growing just as fast as Android in terms of Web usage. In fact, Blackberry users have...
Given that Google is Apple's default search and mapping engine, Microsoft's Bing is fighting an uphill battle on Apple's iOS platforms. Microsoft has launched an avalanche of iPhone apps that are "powered by Bing," but the company's main offering on the iPhone remains the Bing app that offers access to...
The Google Android Market team recently announced plans to extend support for paid applications to more countries worldwide, a move that will allow developers to earn additional income from their "for sale" mobile applications. Registered developers were sent an email containing information about the upcoming changes a few days ago,...
Arduino, the programmable platform of sensors and corresponding device controls, will add ethernet connectivity and a web store of built products, the company announced this weekend.Arduino is one of the best known companies enabling others to create what's called the Internet of Things, network connected physical-world devices with web interfaces....
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