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Skype Launches Next Generation Free Internet and Video Calling for Everyone — Partnerships with Logitech, Six Apart and Creative enhance experience for Skype consumers worldwide — LUXEMBOURG, 1 December 2005 - Skype, the global Internet communications company, today released the beta version …
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Om Malik on Broadband:
Skype 2.0 eats its young — Another day, another beta. — Skype, a division of eBay launched Skype 2.0 beta for Windows. Just in time for some customers who got their passwords compromised. The elaborate press release and WSJ review while impressive don't help mask the fact that, Skype is short on new ground breaking ideas.
David Colker / Los Angeles Times:
Skype 2.0 Clarifies Video Chat Picture — Skype Technologies, the Luxemburg company famous for its free Internet telephone calls, today launches an update that brings us closer to an elusive technological dream — the videophone. — The new Skype 2. software provides the ability …
John Seigenthaler / USA Today:
A false Wikipedia 'biography' — "John Seigenthaler Sr. was the assistant to Attorney General Robert Kennedy in the early 1960's. For a brief time, he was thought to have been directly involved in the Kennedy assassinations of both John, and his brother, Bobby. Nothing was ever proven."
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Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:
Wikipedia is the Next Google — Fear. You can just feel it in the air, can't you? There is fear everywhere that Google has become too powerful. As John Battelle notes, the tide of public opinion is starting to turn from loving Google to fearing them. Perhaps. But I have news for you.
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Jonathan Krim / Washington Post:
Executive Wants to Charge for Web Speed — Some Say Small Firms Could Be Shut Out of Market Championed by BellSouth Officer — A senior telecommunications executive said yesterday that Internet service providers should be allowed to strike deals to give certain Web sites or services priority …
Gregg Keizer / InformationWeek:
Microsoft late Tuesday opened its OneCare Live security subscription service to broad beta testing. — Microsoft late Tuesday opened its OneCare Live security subscription service to broad beta testing, another step toward competing in the consumer anti-virus market dominated by long …
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Kenji Hall / Business Week:
Attack of the PlayStation Hackers — Sony's portable game consoles are being dismembered and reprogrammed — a movement that jeopardizes the profit potential of authorized software — The moment Sony's (SNE) handheld game console, PlayStation Portable, went on sale in the U.S. on March 24, Auri Rahimzadeh got one.
Sandy Brown / TheStreet.com:
Cablevision Breaks Ranks on Pricing — As the debate on so-called a la carte pricing reverberates through the cable industry, one hard-charging player is taking a contrarian approach. — Breaking with the rest of the industry, Cablevision (CVC:NYSE - commentary - research - Cramer's Take) …
Ryan Naraine / eWEEK.com:
Redmond Mulls Emergency Patch for IE Attacks — Microsoft Corp. is working on a plan to release an out-of-cycle patch to cover a gaping hole in its dominant Internet Explorer browser. — Sources say the MSRC (Microsoft Security Response Center) is aggressively aiming to release …
USA Today:
TiVo adds movie tickets, photos to offerings — NEW YORK — TiVo hopes to raise the stakes today in its battle with cable and satellite digital video recorders (DVRs) by introducing a suite of broadband-related services that enable many subscribers to use their TVs to buy movie tickets …
GameSpot:
Madden 06 — Madden 06 for the Xbox 360 isn't just a port of the original Xbox version. EA has rebuilt the game from the ground up and has put a lot of work into making Madden 06's graphics worthy of the Xbox 360 platform. The game features improved player models and animations and even-more-realistic stadium environments.
Karina Longworth / Cinematical:
Universal tries to claim it's illegal to email their employees — A blogger named Gerard Jones has posted the email addresses of thousands of agents, producers and executives on a site called EveryoneWhosAnyone.com, breaking down the iron curtain between practicing Hollywoodites and the rabble …
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Jason / Random Tech:
Take a Screenshot of DVD Player in OS X — Ever since OS X came out, Apple made sure that it would not be possible to take a screenshot of a DVD. When DVD Player is open, you can't capture the screen with Grab. Command-Shift-3 and Command-Shift-4 both do not work when DVD Player is open.
Sunbelt BLOG:
We liked the product so much, we bought it — Sunbelt to acquire the Kerio Personal Firewall. Link here. — Highlights: — The acquisition is expected to be finalized by the end of this month. — The Kerio Personal Firewall will be re-branded on an interim basis as the "Sunbelt Kerio Personal Firewall".
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Mike Rundle / Business Logs:
Crippling Firefox Bug On Mac OS X — As I'm sure you all know, Firefox v1.5 has been officially released and is available for download. Got a G5 processor? Check out this page to download a G5-optimized version of the Fox that is a bit faster. You would think all is gravy in Mozilla-land, but that is definitely not the case.
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