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Skype over 3G Comes to the iPhone. It's Not All Good News
Skype on Saturday released an upgrade to its iPhone app that allows calls to be made and received under AT&Ts 3G network, but theres a catch they wont be free for very long. Even for Skype-to-Skype calls or for people who have all-you-can-eat calling plans with the internet telephony company. No specific pricing or even timeline ...
Suicides a PR Nightmare for Apple
How Chinese Suicides Could Hurt Apple: A giant manufacturer of iPhones and other popular electronics has a bad employee problem: they're killing themselves. Western shoppers in general don't spend a lot of time thinking about the origins of their brand-name sneakers and electronic devices. But when a sweatshop controversy arises, it can mean trouble for companies ...
Skinbook: Facebook for 21st Century Nudists
The rules for Skinbook are clear: No pornographic images or headless torso shots. Don't leave sleazy comments under people's photos. Boot out any “creeps and voyeurs," as site executives call them, who manage to make it past the vetting process for new members. Skinbook.ning.com is a U.K.-based website that proudly touts itself as the Net's only ...
How Computers Know What We Want Before We Do
Here's an experiment: try thinking of a song not as a song but as a collection of distinct musical attributes. Maybe the song has political lyrics. That would be an attribute. Maybe it has a police siren in it, or a prominent banjo part, or paired vocal harmony, or punk roots. Any one of those would ...
The 2010 Airstream International RV: Nature, Meet Man-Made Wonder
Like a lot of Angelenos, I like to ditch the city every once in a while and experience nature. Briefly. My last escape involved 1,000 or so Cub Scouts, a battered, borrowed tent and two days of port-a-potties and pump-station water. This time around I was looking to rough it, but rough it “lite," during a ...
Apple-Google Fight is Expected over Future of TV
Another battle is brewing between Apple Inc. and Google Inc., and this time it may come into your living room. One week after Google announced its bid for the hearts and eyes of America's TV viewers with Internet-based Google TV, its Silicon Valley rival is reportedly poised to overhaul its own offering, Apple TV. The stakes ...
Free Texting on an iPhone
You don't have to pay $20 a month to AT&T--or any sum at all for that matter--to send and receive text messages on an iPhone. San Jose-based Pinger has just waived the annual $5.99 fee for its popular Textfree Unlimited app--users previously downloaded versions of the app about 4.5 million times. And that means you can ...
London's Apple iPad Launch Was Crazy
8am, Regent Street, London. Hundreds of shoppers, photographers, journalists, security staff, police and curious onlookers crowd Apple's flagship UK store as part of the British iPad launch. Stephen Fry made a surprise appearance to cheers and claps from the crowds of queuers and Apple staff. He already had an iPad of course, but showed up to ...
What to Expect from Apple's Iphone-Centric WWDC 2010
News outlets may have spoiled the big surprise for Apple's upcoming Worldwide Developers Conference by publishing early photos and details of the next-generation iPhone. Nonetheless, in a recent e-mail, Steve Jobs promised a customer that “You won't be disappointed" by the announcements to come. What else might Apple have in store for the event, which happens ...
Gigsby Launches Electronic Music Network
Hypebot Has 50 Beta Invites Gigsby.com launched recently in private beta as professional network for the Electronic Music Industry. The sote includes the basic social networking features including profiles with integrated feeds for Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Soundcloud and others. In addition, Gigsby provides gig collaboration tools including automated artist booking requests, gig pages with file storage, ...
