Archive for April, 2011

Bringing Google I/O To You With I/O Live

Thursday, April 7th, 2011

I am glad at least one of us managed to get Google I/O yet envious of him. But now we have another reason to make it more positive. Google just announces that they will be  broadcasting live streams. If you are interested visit www.google.com/io on May 10-11 from the comforts of your own home, office [...]

Sample C# code for Skype DTMF and IVR menu processing

Thursday, April 7th, 2011

Don Kennedy announced his update to a working example in C#. ?The latest version 4.1.0.0 Includes a fully customizable complete IVR system. You can still use the DTMF command/response interface.? From the release notes: Optional Complete Custom IVR for Skype ("Interactive Voice Response") system Secure and limited access features Process calls from only [...]
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Download: Skype for Linux 2.2 Beta. Now with Skype Access, Call Waiting

Thursday, April 7th, 2011

Download Skype for Linux 2.2.0.25 Beta. From the announcement and change log, major new features are Skype Access (buying Wi-Fi hotspot access by the minute with Skype credits), support for call waiting and holding, improved audio/video quality in calls, conference call hosting. Other improvements: drag and drop contacts into calls or to contact groups; [...]
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Download: Skype for Windows 5.3. Sends better video to mobiles

Thursday, April 7th, 2011

Download Skype for Windows 5.3.0.108. Today?s announcement and release notes list improvements: Improved quality of video sent to Skype on mobile devices by rotating video on the sender?s side. [Clever!] Skype shows users’ presence icons on collapsed contact profile cards. [Presence without wasting screen space.] Conversation topic editing button is now always available [...]
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Commerce as Context for Conversation: ShopSquad

Thursday, April 7th, 2011

Charles Katz, CEO, ShopSquad, answered the Quora question ?is ShopSquad what Skype and eBay should have been?? Katz writes ?ShopSquad’s vision is quite a bit different than the original rationale that Whitman highlighted. Rather than buyers be linked to sellers on eBay, visitors to our site can be connected with a product expert [...]
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Android Megaminxer On HTC Desire Solves Megaminx, Dodecahedron Rubik Puzzle

Wednesday, April 6th, 2011

Android Megaminxer On HTC Desire http://snapvoip.blogspot.com/
I am sure you have had Rubik’s cube in your hands and some of you may have resolved it as well. Certainly we have seen fast Rubik’s cube puzzle resolver, on TV, Youtube etc. What you are about to watch is dodecahedron Rubik’s puzzle, Megaminx solved by a robot instructed [...]

Fring trials 4-way mobile video calling party

Wednesday, April 6th, 2011

Early Beta. Free for now. The signup form. ?Fring you later.?
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Just-in-time Social Graphs need contexts

Wednesday, April 6th, 2011

It?s not who you know, it?s who you know right now sharing your interest and purpose. Color?s launch prompted Fred Wilson to muse on the effect of immediacy on your use of social graphs. There are a bunch of social news discovery services out there that use my current reading history to determine [...]
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Toktumi Line2 takes on Skype

Wednesday, April 6th, 2011

Toktumi founder Peter Sisson talks right into the camera and says Line2 is better than Skype on iOS or Android. He?s pitching Line2 as a phone service, positioning Skype as weaker in at least three features. Where Skype works where you have data service, Line2 also works where you only have cellular, so [...]
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Tuesday short takes

Tuesday, April 5th, 2011

Skype launched ?The Living Workplace? to share an opinion survey on remote and flexible workstyles. TNW summarizes the report. I?m in one of a few short videos by analysts on the site. Key points from the half-hour video cut to under three minutes: The unit of work engagement used to be the job [...]
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