Stories about: Skype

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Skype offers Aussies free WiFi for the weekend 20 March, 2010 11:48

 Free access is available between 10am Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST) on 20 March and 9:59 AEST on Monday 22 March, 2010.
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iPad pre-orders: For idiots only 18 March, 2010 10:13

Friday morning, the fool's parade started. Apple is taking online "pre-orders" for its iPad tablet, which is supposed to begin shipping on April 3. Buying a new kind of product sight unseen is foolish. Especially given how mysterious Apple has been on what the iPad can do and what restrictions on capabilities and media access it will place on users and content providers.
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Cisco tries to expand video calling with IME 12 March, 2010 12:40

Cisco Systems plans to extend unified communications beyond individual enterprises, introducing a new appliance and a protocol that the company hopes will become an industry standard.
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Work smarter with online collaboration tools 12 March, 2010 03:40

Budget constraints and limited technical support make it critical for most small and medium-size companies to work as efficiently as possible. An important first step in getting more and better work from relatively few people is to enable them to work together in real time, no matter how distant they actually may be.
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Nokia's smartphones get Skype client 04 March, 2010 07:34

Skype and Nokia have released a new Skype client for the Symbian mobile OS.
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Jailbreaking in the iPhone 3.0 era 02 March, 2010 03:24

In a few short years, Apple has established the iPhone as the mobile platform to beat. Each successive firmware update opens new, and often unmatched, features for users and developers to explore. Many of these features, however, find their roots outside Apple's walled-garden approach to the iPhone, as the jailbreak community proves time and again to be an innovative environment for off-limits apps that demonstrate new ways to push the iPhone platform forward.
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Google closes On2 acquisition for $US124.6 million 22 February, 2010 05:53

Google has finished its acquisition of video-compression-technology vendor On2 Technologies, boosting its efforts in online video.
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Is Skype's challenge to telcos dwindling? 18 February, 2010 16:52

Australian Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and telecommunication carriers have shrugged off any notion that free Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services such as Skype are threatening their businesses.
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Former Apple exec says iPad too big, "smarted out" 05 February, 2010 05:51

The iPad is too big and lacks communication capabilities, argued the former Apple executive who oversaw the demise of the company's iconic-but-flawed Newton more than a decade ago.
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Should you move your small business to the cloud? 01 February, 2010 07:12

Cloud computing. For some, the term is wildly nebulous. Not long ago, even Oracle's Larry Ellison publicly asked what the heck people meant by "the cloud."
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Stolen Twitter accounts can fetch $US1000 30 January, 2010 00:51

According to researchers at Kaspersky Lab, cybercriminals are trying to sell hacked Twitter user names and passwords on-line for hundreds of dollars.