Quora asks: ?Given our current technology and with the proper training, would it be possible for someone to become Batman?? Many great answers, but here?s mine. The qualifications are time, effort, focus, technology and youth. Oh, and several folks mentioned money. So let’s start with money. I’m going to assume our Batman [...]
GoogleTalk video calls are now an Android app, as are Skype?s Qik video calls. But these are just milestones on the way to a new platform for video calling. YouTube started with an asynchronous experience. Millions of files being uploaded, slowly. Prepared for different screens, slowly. Cached in content distribution networks, slowly. Watched [...]
Wikileaks announced new files, this time regarding Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. They aren?t searchable yet, so I went back to Cablesearch the U.S. State Department?s communications. This one, Supporting Educational Improvements in Brazil: Public Affairs Best Practice Programs, came up, unclassified, dated 2009-03-13 from the Embassy of Brasilia. ¶17. (U) Use of New Media: [...]
EFF Legal Director Cindy Cohn says ?companies that stand up for users will do better in the long run if people are informed and can include this information in their decision-making about what services to use.? With no stars, Skype fares poorly in EFF?s race to the top for protecting customer privacy [...]
Muzaffar Rizvi reports for the Kaleej Times: ?We will make an announcement on VoIP and hopefully this service will be available in the second half of this year,? Farid Faraidooni, chief commercial officer of du, told Khaleej Times. … ?The VoIP service will be a part of du broadband service and [...]
Are Bing search results predictive? I?ll let you know if the 2012 apocalypse doesn?t come first. Inspired by XKCD?s future timeline.
A million people online starts to resemble humanity offline, for good and evil. One hundred million and there?s little difference. During a Skype video call, a Beijing man sees his girlfriend attacked in Toronto, Canada. This crime wasn?t novel; Skype didn?t change what happened. We wouldn?t remark if this happened over the phone; crimes [...]
Download now in the Android market?s Skype page. ?What’s in this version: 1. Security update. 2. Calling over your 3G connection is available worldwide – now including the US.? via Android Community.
Download it. It fixes "script error" pop-ups and adding of echo123 to your contact list on startup. Release notes.
The iPad doesn?t work for me, he said. Neither fish nor fowl. Why all the fuss? I think it is the difference people felt when they left the command lines of Unix, DOS, and CP/M for the first Macintosh in 1984. It had a mouse. You could grab and [...]