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Society RSS FeedsComcast Skype on Xfinity $9.95/month - Lame or Cool? - Comcast today unveiled their Skype video calling service, Skype on Xfinity which directly integrates into your HDTV. The beauty of the system is you can make and receive Skype video and audio calls from your TV. Users can send instant messages via Skype, while watching TV at the same time.The only problem is Skype on Xfinity costs $9.95 a month extra. We saw what happened to the $599 Cisco Umi, which Rich Tehrani and I rightly predicted would fai...Feed Source: feedproxy.google.com Plixer Scrutinizer Network Traffic Analyzer Preview - I've been testing Plixer Scrutinizer, a network traffic analyzer product for several weeks now. It's a great product that supports NetFlow used by popular routers and switches, including the popular Cisco ASA series of firewall/security routers, Checkpoint, Adtran, Riverbed, and more. It also supports Juniper Jflow and Juniper IPFIX, SonicWALL NetFlow and SonicWALL IPFIX and Citrix AppFlow. It also supports sFlow.Having insights into your network... Netflix Temporarily Offline? On Movie Night? Ahhhh! - Oh joy - was checking my Netflix DVD queue to see if any interesting movies to stream as well as which ones arrived in the mail and I got this lovely error message:
Watch as many TV episodes and movies as you want for one low price! One month FREE Trial.
We’re sorry, the Netflix website is temporarily unavailable.
Our shipping centers are continuing to send and receive DVDs, so your movies will be processed as usual... Telefonica Launches Skype Competitor Tu Me - Telefónica today launched a new mobile app called Tu Me, which essentially takes the approach if you can't beat Skype, join em'. Tu Me features texts, voice calls, messages, and location and photo sharing - all free of charge, with the caveat that it uses your data plan more, so it isn't technically "free" unless you are on an unlimited data plan or you use free Wi-Fi hotspots most of the time.The app is currently only available on iOS ho... Viber Announces BlackBerry Beta and Windows Phone 7 Beta - Viber today announced the availability of Viber for BlackBerry Beta and Windows Phone 7 Beta.Both Viber for BlackBerry Beta and Viber for Windows Phone 7 Beta initially offer Viber Messaging, allowing users to exchange text and high-quality photo messages and share locations with other Viber users. The beta does not yet include their HD VoIP calling. Some may call this a bit premature beta since Viber is a known as a mobile VoIP app not a st... Nokia City Lens Augmented Reality Launches on Lumia Phones - Nokia today released its City Lens app for Windows Phone, an app that is an augmented reality browser. Users open the app, and depending on the phone's angle (landscape [facing away from you], 45 degrees, or parallel to ground) it automatically changes modes - augmented reality, list of locations, and map mode respectively.The coolest mode is obviously augmented reality where you hold the phone up and scan the horizon with the camera and it... Ooma Telo Review - Back in 2007 I wrote an article "Ooma goes Booma" because Ooma's claim-to-fame feature was that it worked by 'sharing' your PSTN analog phone line with other Ooma users. I was right that this PSTN sharing feature and business model wouldn't work, so certainly that did go "Booma". However, 5 years later after dropping the PSTN sharing and moving to a VoIP-centric business model Ooma has redeemed themselves with some really cool features. Ooma is a... Skype Aware of IP Security Flaw Back in 2010 - Some more interesting information has come to light regarding the IP revealing security flaw in Skype. Researchers from Inria, a research institute in France, and the Polytechnic Institute of New York University discovered the flaw. Stevens Le Blond, one of the team's researchers who discovered the exploit told the Wall Street Journal that the team first discovered the flaw in November 2010. They were actually able to track the city-level locat... Skype Responds to IP Address Privacy Vulnerability - Yesterday it was reported that a simple script could expose any Skype user's IP address. A Microsoft representative saw my article and gave me this official response, which they also provided to other media outlets:
“We are investigating reports of a new tool that captures a Skype user’s last known IP address. This is an ongoing, industry-wide issue f... Does HTML5 Rock Your Mobile World? - We've heard the hype surrounding HTML5, but does it live up to its promise? If TMC's recently completed DevCon5 show in Santa Clara, California is any indication, HTML5 will soon rock your mobile world!At DevCon5, an international community of HTML5 developers and designers gathered to focus on Mobile Apps, Consistent UI Development, and more. Gaming was a huge draw featuring a large, enthusiastic group.With breakout sessions led by experts from ... New Skype for iPhone, iPad, iPod touch Sports Ability to Move Video Preview - Some new features in the latest release of Skype for Apple iOS, including the ability to move your own video preview, app auto-restart if it crashes, improved accessibility, improved stability, some UI improvements and more. See full release notes in screenshot.
In related news, today gHacks revealed that Skype reveals remote and local IP Address of all online Skype users using a script. Yikes! Privacy zealots have at em'!
Tags: apple, ipa... Ooma Telo installed - Ooo Look, Shiny Bright Blue LEDs! - I received the latest version of the Ooma Telo along with the Wi-Fi dongle for a product review. I'll have to ask Ooma for the Bluetooth dongle to test since that seems like a cool mobile integration feature. Ooma competes with magicJack and netTALK offering low-cost phone service leveraging VoIP.
I hooked up the Ooma Telo in front of my Cisco Wi-Fi router and in addition to having an eerily similar size, shape, and color they both sport bright b... Skype@Home Telephone Products Coming? - Today, Rich Tehrani wrote about Microsoft "working on Skype Everywhere Initiative" based on another Microsoft-careers.com job listing. Just a few days ago I wrote about a Microsoft job listing was pointing toward Microsoft and Skype building a HTML5 Web version of Skype.Rich believes there are some good syner... RingCentral Cloud Touch Platform - Configure Phone System from iPad, iPhone, or Android - Imagine being able to record prompts, configure IVR/auto-attendant, and remove a disgruntled employee's access to your phone system all while sitting on a beach - simply using your tablet or mobile device. That's exactly what RingCentral's Cloud Touch Platform does and they proudly claim this touch-enabled phone system configuration platform "Reimagines Business Phone Systems". They may just be right.Founded in 2003, RingCentral (>1000 employe... Google's Chrome Team Reveals WebRTC Roadmap - Google's Chrome team stated in their recent WebRTC roadmap that the main components of WebRTC are now stable and they will be releasing it to the 200M+ Chrome users later this year. However, they want developers to get a sneak preview of what will be in the first WebRTC release. I should mention that two days ago I discussed how Skype and Microsoft were working on a HTML5 web-version of Skype. I felt that HTML5 would be inadequate and any Skype w... Police: Boy, 13, Tortured And Abused In Front Of Bible Study Group - A California pastor's assault on a 13-year-old boy took place during a Bible study session as a circle of men watched, newly released court records say. The pastor has other legal problems as well.... Religion News Briefing: Widow of first televangelist dies - In today's issue: The widow of Rex Humbard, the world's first televangelist, dies. An Agape Ministries cult member gets his ammunition back. A court orders gated communities in Puerto Rico to provide access to Jehovah's Witnesses. Plus a short, but though-provoking documentary on the Westboro Baptist Church -- a hate group that masquerades as a Christian church.... Faith-healing parents acquitted of murder charge - Gregory and Garnet JaLea Swezey have been found not guilty of second-degree murder in the death of their 17-year-old son. They had been accused of relying on faith healing instead of getting their son proper medical attention... Court affirms rejection of insanity defense in ?exorcism? murder - The Indiana Court of Appeals has upheld a jury's rejection of an insanity defense in the case of a woman who suffocated her 3-year-old son by forcing him to drink oil and vinegar because he was possessed by a demon. In June 2011 Latisha Lawson was sentenced to 62 years in prison.... Church sues ex-members for defamation over blog criticizing church?s practices - Pastor Charles O'Neal of Beaverton Grace Bible Church in Oregon is trying to silence critics by filing lawsuits against them -- even though the Bible teaches that Christians should not file lawsuits against other Christians. The family being sued says it was shunned after leaving the church a few years ago.... ?Holy Ghost? cult leader sentenced to six years to life in rape of daughter - A religious cult leader has been sentenced to six years to life for raping his daughter and allowing his friend to rape her as well. Terrill Dalton, who called himself the 'Holy Ghost,' promised the girl "great blessings" if she had sex with him.... ?This was not a faith healing death,? lawyer tells jury - Gregory and Garnet Swezey of Carlton, Washington are on trial on charges of second-degree murder in the death of their 17-year-old son. Their lawyer: if you ask the Swezeys what they would have done if they knew it was a ruptured appendix, and that their son was dying, ?They both say, they don?t know."... Conviction upheld in FLDS sexual assault case - In his appeal, Abram Harker Jeffs claimed that the state had insufficient evidence to prove that a sexual relationship had occurred between him and his wife, whom he married when she was 14 years old. He was one of 12 men indicted after a 2008 law enforcement raid on the sect's Texas-based ranch.... Faith Healing trial begins for Church of the First Born members - The second-degree murder trial of a faith healing couple whose teenage son died of a burst appendix is underway. 17-year-old Zachary Swezey died of a burst appendix while his parents and other members of the Church of the First Born prayed for his recovery, and failed to call a doctor or ambulance.... Colonia Dignidad cult victims seek escape from nightmare past - A little over two years ago former Nazi Paul Schaefer, who founded a secretive German cult in Southern Chile in the 1960s and was later convicted of sexually abusing children, died of heart failure in a prison hospital. But today, ten years after Chilean police raided Colonia Dignidad's properties, many of his victims are still seeking closure from the human rights abuses the... Copyright © 2012, TopLooker.com. All Rights Reserved. |