Archive for November, 2010

Skype in Confabistan: Apple and Cisco? or Skype and Cisco?

Tuesday, November 30th, 2010

Skype users call billions of minutes yearly. That customer behavior is stolen from phone companies. Skype accounts for more than 12% of long distance and international minutes after seven years. Those phone companies can?t fight back using their PSTN phone system: 40% of Skype calls have video, and your local phone company can?t [...]
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Verizon preloads Skype mobile on more handsets

Tuesday, November 30th, 2010

Verizon Wireless preloads the Skype mobile app available for the Pantech Crux (a music phone without a keyboard), LG Octane (a messaging phone), and Samsung Zeal, all sub-$100 consumer handsets. This is routine. I?m just passing along the data point that VZW continues to extend Skype?s US brand.
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LG Star Is Running Froyo And Already Beating Galaxy S in Performance Tests

Tuesday, November 30th, 2010

#LG_Star Is Running Froyo http://snapvoip.blogspot.com/
A lucky user Berryjuice on Android Forums have gotten hold of the LG Star and have posted some photos of it and giving us some information as how the Tegra 2 equipped smartphone from LG out classes the Samsung Galaxy S.
The phone is running tweaked Android Froyo and seem to have [...]

BlackBerry Curve 8980 Gets FCC Approval!

Tuesday, November 30th, 2010

BlackBerry Curve 8980
#BlackBerry #Blackberry8980 Seeks FCC Approval! http://snapvoip.blogspot.com/
Looks like RIM has finally decided to offer an continuation for the BlackBerry 8900 series. The new Curve8980 should make a bunch of people excited about Blackberries again. But the damper seem to be that, as filed, is a quad band GSM/EDGE only device, like the Curve 8900. [...]

Kinect Is a Hit for Microsoft

Tuesday, November 30th, 2010

Looks like kinect is doing wonders to Microsoft gaming it seems. They have sold about 2.5 million kinect units since it’s debut 25 days ago; Seeing the demo, I wanted one too but we do not have a XBox but we do have PS3 and WII and we are happy with our moves.
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Tablets Will Eat Into PC Sales, Says Gartner.

Monday, November 29th, 2010

Tablets Like #iPad, #Samsung Galaxy Tab and others Will Eat Into PC Sales http://snapvoip.blogspot.com/
World is continuing to  increase Personal computers usage in the coming year, like past years. Gartner says the new tablets will take a bite out of these forecast PC sales of 409 million units in 2011. This increase marks a 15.9 % [...]

Apple Nokia Legal Battles Will Start This Week

Monday, November 29th, 2010

#Apple #Nokia Legal Battles http://snapvoip.blogspot.com/
Nokia and Apple will present their arguments for the patents they own and the other violated to the ITC, International Trade Commission this week.
(The International Trade Commission, a quasi-judicial agency, was set up to protect domestic markets from unfair trade practices. It has the power to ban imports of [...]

Are AT&T, Sprint and Comcast Hit With Outages On Cybermonday?

Monday, November 29th, 2010

Are AT&T, Sprint and Comcast Hit With Outages On Cybermonday? http://snapvoip.blogspot.com/
According to Tom Keating of TMC, three major networks seem to be in trouble.  Also all seem to be in the east cost of USA.
I am on AT&T network for phone, DSL and Mobile and all seem to be normal. My Comcast business cable is [...]

Apple?s FaceTime vs. Skype?s Skype

Monday, November 29th, 2010

I spent the Thanksgiving holiday with family in the frozen Northwest United States. I’ve been surrounded by people I love who are late adopters of information technology. None use Macs. Two use BlackBerries and SMS. One couple shares one basic mobile phone, for emergencies only. They all Skype, but only by appointment and sometimes [...]
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The Future of Work: 20th Century Unions vs. 21st Century Networks

Sunday, November 28th, 2010

When oDesk customers tell contractors to install surveillance software on their computer, how does a contractor say no? When a vWork client wrongly ruins a designer’s reputation, who speaks for the worker? When a Hindi language coach for a US educator isn’t paid a Mumbai living wage, where do seek redress? Workers have been [...]
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