Archive for June, 2011

Skype adds a Desktop app to Qik?s $60/year premium service

Monday, June 27th, 2011

Qik?s new app is a bit like Flip Video?s desktop app and serves the same purpose. Copy Qik videos from your phone to your PC or Mac, organize, and share with friends via Gmail (not other email services), Twitter (not other microblog or blogging services), or Facebook (not other social networks),  and YouTube (not [...]
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LulzSec Bids Adieu

Sunday, June 26th, 2011

LulzSec Bids Adieu http://snapvoip.blogspot.com/
After months (50 days) of mayhem, disruptions, disclosures, chaos, and many other things depending on what camp you are on, LulzSec (Laughing at your security) is dissolving. Via a tweet and a message posted on pastebin;
. /$$ [...]

FTC_Google : Google Is A Choice! “Say WHat Again FTC?”

Saturday, June 25th, 2011

Update: Google Engineer / Spam Guru spoke with Bloomberg regarding the FTC notice and the inquiry. Follow the link for the video.
We all saw the news of Google being probed by FTC on anti trust issues. Today Google has confirmed the probe by FTC but the response from Google is basically “What are you looking [...]

Dear Mr. Lee, we?re taking back your Skype stock

Saturday, June 25th, 2011

Dear Yee Lee, thanks for your How employees get screwed in private equity deals blog post. Dear Skype employees: Check your contracts. Call a lawyer. Watch your back. Let me know how you?re doing. Dear Silver Lake, what the hell? Dear Dan Primack, thanks for further explaining how Skype employees and alumni [...]
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Skype for iPad; SkypeKit launching at eComm next week?

Friday, June 24th, 2011

A Skype for iPad demonstration video leaked on YouTube. Skype?s Jonathan Christensen, Vice President, Emerging Opportunities [cool title] is speaking Tuesday at the Emerging Communications Conference on ?The Next Wave of Video Communications.? The blurb suggests two product announcements: an iPad client and SkypeKit: Late last year, IMS Research reported that we’d passed [...]
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Skype For iPad, Looks Real ! [Video]

Friday, June 24th, 2011

Skype For iPad http://snapvoip.blogspot.com/
According to razorianfly, Skype posted a video about Skype for iPad on YouTube and took it down. They have a screen cap to show the Skype youtube site showing the video. Here is the video upped by razorianfly. The app seems to fine and it it is true, I am sure all [...]

MobileMe ->> iCloud Transition, A FAQ!

Friday, June 24th, 2011

MobileMe to iCloud http://snapvoip.blogspot.com/
As Apple work hard to get iCloud off the ground in to sky, and swatting of trademark flies at the same time, it is preparing users for the transitions. Getting people, or Apple users on iCloud means getting them off the MobileMe, the Apple’s not so cloudy previous online services. Lokks [...]

Hacking Spreads To Road Signs, And Jalopnik-Rules

Friday, June 24th, 2011

Jalopnic Road Sign Hack http://snapvoip.blogspot.com/
With all these high end hacking like LulzSec making you wonder where we are going, there are some hack I don’t mind seeing. They reminds me of childhood franks we used do. Annoying but harmless except thy might hide an important message.
It all started when Jalopnik posted an article how to [...]

LulzSec Keeping Media And Others Busy

Friday, June 24th, 2011

LulzSec http://snapvoip.blogspot.com/
In these busy days LulzSec seem to be busy as well. Then the media are even busier trying to decipher what “LulzSec” is and law enforcement offices around the world trying to catch them or busy telling us that they did. Just Google for LulzSec and you will see the news!
All the while “Lulz [...]

Book of the Day: Windup Girl

Friday, June 24th, 2011

Today?s book is a biopunk science fiction novel, The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi, in honor of the Foresight @ Google 25th Anniversary Conference Celebration & Reunion Weekend, starting tonight. These adventurous scientists, futurists, technologist and investors are my peeps and I?m looking forward to the reunion. To the book… I loved The [...]
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