HP sells videoconferencing units to Polycom. About time.

June 1st, 2011
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HP’s Visual Collaboration businesses will have a much better home at Polycom. Polycom folks understand how people talk at work, their engineers build quality product, and their brand defined office conferencing long before Cisco or Skype. The deal is expected to close in the next few months, followed by quarters of product line [...]

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Lodsys Sues Seven App Developers In East Texas, Includes Android App

June 1st, 2011
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My last post about Lodsys was “Will Apple’s Letter To Lodsys Save App Deelopers?” based on information gathered at Foss Patents blog. And again through the same blog, I learn that at least it did not save seven developers who are being sued in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, the troll-friendly venue.

Lodsys also says that it disagrees…

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#Skype Extras partner EasyBits releases game uninstall tool

May 31st, 2011
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A year after eBay bought Skype, EasyBits became Skype?s biggest developer partner, releasing dozens of desktop games through the Skype Extras Manager. The May 27th release of Skype for Windows included the Gold release of the EasyBits GO console. The update surprised and upset some users. EasyBits? responded to user concerns: EasyBits Games [...]

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Would you like #Skype to offer collect calling? From #Faircall?

May 31st, 2011
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Few mobile operators let you accept collect calls; neither does Skype or Google Voice. I interviewed the genial Joey Zukran of Faircall about reverse charge calling. Would you partner with Faircall? Would you want Skype to let you accept or make collect calls? Let?s see if we reach the same conclusions.

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HTC WP7 Camera Sports A 12MP Camera That Does Raw Captures.

May 31st, 2011
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Engadget directed me to a tweet and a tweetpic by the  Phone reviewer Eldar Murtazin to witness a new WP7  HTC phone with a fantastic camera specs.

Just like many DSLRs of today the 12MP camera is capable of doing many things similar to those cameras carry, like Raw capture, exposure compensation, and exposure metering,  just by looking at…

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Can you spot the usability flaw in this popup advert?

May 27th, 2011
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  That?s right! Because the window pane is smaller than the ad, users cannot see the ad?s ?close? button, hidden on the right. To use Skype you must dismiss the ad but it is not obvious that the only way is to resize the entire application window. How about one or more [...]

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Download: Skype for Windows 5.5.3.0.116 Hotfix

May 27th, 2011
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Download Skype for Windows 5.5.3.0.116 Hotfix. It addresses problems some users had connecting to the Skype network. A Mac hotfix is coming soon but Linux users should follow the manual procedure to repair the shared.xml file. [...]

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Download: Skype for Mac 5.1.0.968 Hotfix

May 27th, 2011
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Download Skype for Mac 5.1.0.968. It addresses problems some users had connecting to the Skype network. Change log. Everyone else is downloading the new patched Skype clients. Why not you? [...]

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Omnio Wowkeys Stand To WoW iPhone iPad users.

May 26th, 2011
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If you are as frustrated by having to dangle your iPhone from your computer to keep it in charge, new product might put you at ease. Omnio Wowkeys allows you to dock your smaller idevice to the keyboard and you will get much more than just charging.

Now you can start syncing with iTunes, typing text directly into your iDevice for that quick text message, or…

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TinyCo Invites All Mobile Game Developers To Apply Apply For No So TinyFund.

May 26th, 2011
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After raising 18 Million in Series A funding, led by Andreessen Horowitz and joined by Ron Conway, Keith Rabois, and a handful of other angels, TinyCo is on the move to help out mobile game developers and conquer some of the gaming market that is growing out of every corner. It should be not much of a task now that Marc Andreessen has joined the TinyCo’s board of…

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