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How this nearly barenaked lady has been brought to you courtesy of a Skype SPIM-mer

Skype Journal’s Phil Wolff uses this screencap from a Skype SPIM (Spam Over Instant Messaging) session to explain how Skype SPIM-ers initiate these contacts. 6. Route incoming chats. So a dozen of you are sitting in a room with a thousand Skypes ...

From RUSSELL SHAW, ZDNet,  7 Mar 2008
Related Topics: Russell Shaw

Sorry, Gizmodo, VoIP over iPhone isn't going to be "huge"

Gizmodo’s Brian Lam (no, not the C-SPAN guy, that’d be Brian Lamb) notes a snippet from Apple’s SDK-coming-out-part press conference in which one Mr. Jobs noted that any third-party iPhone developer cooks up a VoIP program for iPhone, the utility will ...

From RUSSELL SHAW, ZDNet,  7 Mar 2008
Related Topics: Brian Lamb,  C-SPAN,  AT&T Inc.,  Russell Shaw

Over WiFi at DIA, free speech is DOA

SI model Jessica Gomes, if you must know. Well, excuse me. Aren’t magazines with far more “pornographic” sold at DIA newsstands? And how many children would be Web surfing via WiFi at any airport? Well, I suppose that if you and a couple of your kids ...

From RUSSELL SHAW, ZDNet,  7 Mar 2008
Related Topics: Russell Shaw

WORLD EXCLUSIVE: iPhone DevCamp's Raven's Thoughts on IPhone SDK and what it means

Just a few minutes ago, I had a most enlightening email conversation with someone who knows as much about the new iPhone SDK, and its effects/potential, as anyone who doesn’t work at Apple. And probably know more than most who do. That’d be Raven ...

From RUSSELL SHAW, ZDNet,  6 Mar 2008
Related Topics: Steve Jobs

Is proprietary iPhone video player on the way?

Jobs said a key reason is that Adobe’s Flash Player is optimally built for laptops. Because laptops are larger than the iPhone, the performance of Flash on the iPhone would be too slow. “There’s this missing product in the middle,” Jobs said. When I ...

From RUSSELL SHAW, ZDNet,  5 Mar 2008
Related Topics: Steve Jobs,  Russell Shaw

Truphone cuts international rates with new Tru Zone offering

Today, Wi-Fi centered mobile Internet service provider Truphone announced a pretty significant per-minute calling cost reduction on calls from the U.S. to 40 countries. Marketed as Tru Zone, these calls will be USD0.06 per minute to landlines and USD0.3 ...

From RUSSELL SHAW, ZDNet,  4 Mar 2008

Score one for the little guy: FCC entirely backs consumer in Sprint slamming case

is highly partial to the interests of large broadband service providers and telcos has often been hammered home on these screens. While I am certainly not ready to contradict those overarching feelings, I nevertheless feel enthusiastic and obligated to ...

From RUSSELL SHAW, ZDNet,  4 Mar 2008

Fonality boosts presence detection in new PBXtra4.0

Announced this morning, the new rev offers enhanced presence detection under the aegis of FindMe with Boomerang Mobile Integration. The sell here is a new ability to automatically find employees on their mobiles, offering them the option of answering ...

From RUSSELL SHAW, ZDNet,  4 Mar 2008
Related Topics: Russell Shaw

Reader: AT&T tells me Time Warner Cable is blocking his VoIP

A reader and information technology professional in the New York area sent me an email this morning that raises the possibility that his high-speed Internet service provider Time Warner Cable may be blocking his AT&T CallVantage VoIP service. Not only ...

From RUSSELL SHAW, ZDNet,  3 Mar 2008
Related Topics: Time Warner Inc.,  AT&T Inc.

Sexism at the Apple Store? Woman claims "Genius" totally ignored her while pitching her husband

Seems as though when Consumerist reader Arjela and her husband entered an Apple store in Bellevue, Wash. to shop for a MacBook Air last week, she felt as though the Apple Store “genius” concentrated all of his sales efforts on the hubby and not on both. ...

From RUSSELL SHAW, ZDNet,  3 Mar 2008
Related Topics: Microsoft Corporation

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