Archive for March, 2011

AT&T Offers Free Wireless And Landline Calls And Free Texting To Japan

Tuesday, March 15th, 2011

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Showing a softer side of AT&T, the carrier is stepping up to help customers trying to reach loved ones in Japan.
Effective beginning last week, March 11, and continuing through March 31, AT&T wireless postpaid customers will not be charged for:
International long distance usage from the United States and Puerto Rico [...]

Skype.jp staff are safe; Free Skype Wi-Fi and credit vouchers in Japan

Monday, March 14th, 2011

I?d been waiting for this report from Skype Japan. Skype?s staff are well.Skype is: Providing free Wi-Fi at hotspots throughout Japan with Skype Access*. With Skype Access, you can connect to the Internet using Skype, and this will be free in Japan until 19th March (our help page provides a [...]
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The gtalk/skype/sip/irc asynchronous UC mashup

Monday, March 14th, 2011

This is a guest post by Tim Panton, telephony/web 2.0 troublemaker. @steely_glint.I?m a regular visitor to the Voipuser?s conference ? which is a weekly conference call about VoIP. The call is hosted on ZipDX?s wideband conference bridge. The quality of the guests combined with the HD audio on the bridge means that the [...]
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My virtual office hours for March, with Skype or maybe TokBox

Monday, March 14th, 2011

I?m trying out Ohours this month, a few hours you can schedule to talk with me. Any topic. Anyone. Free, of course. Let me know what you think. Today?s times are here. If this works out, I might make it a standing feature of my work week.
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Emergency Response to the Earthquakes and Tsunami in Japan, The WhiteHouse Blog.

Monday, March 14th, 2011

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As you may know Me and my colleagues are very closely related to Japan, business wise and otherwise and are extremely sad about the situation currently affecting the Japanese people. We do not have anyone directly affected by the disaster but we are working with local organizations to help and provide aid to the affected. [...]

AT&T to cap DSL in May. Bad for Skype?s users?

Monday, March 14th, 2011

Artificial scarcity produces monopoly profits. Especially in markets without (real) competition. So AT&T (T), one of a handful of landline and mobile broadband providers in the US, will cap residential DSL and charge for overages. The cap: 150 GB or 250GB depending on the plan; the penalty, $1 for 5 GB.I love [...]
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iPad2 Review, It Is So Good!

Sunday, March 13th, 2011

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Looks like Apple is cementing it’s position of tablet king with the iPad 2. The competition has got work laid out for them.
Yes, tablets like XOOM are attractive on the hardware side and the OS front with non restrictive Android OS. But like with XOOM price, is killing the product. On the hardware front [...]

Would it be rude to place a bounty for a Skype ad blocker?

Sunday, March 13th, 2011

Skype is offering a lovely product. So it might be rude to block ads it sells to global brands.I?m not so sure. After all, it is my desktop computer. Mine. And my attention. Easily scattered. I routinely block ads in my other browsers. And I always thought ads in competing consumer products [...]
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Gmail linkifies phone numbers for GTalk calls.

Friday, March 11th, 2011

Congrats to the Google Voice team for the new feature. Points out the power of a gazillion page views by a bazillion users if you want to drive traffic, produce useful data. Next step: YouTube video conferencing.
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Google Voice Extension For Google Chrome

Friday, March 11th, 2011

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Google Voice Extension available from Google Chrome Extensions site
There is a new extension for Google chrome, enabling the use of Google Voice within the browser. The extension adds Google Voice icon to the browser toolbar. It will also display number of unread messages if there are any.
The convenience [...]