With the release of iPhone on the Verizon Wireless Network, Skype announces exciting new features on Skype iPhone App.
Skype App allows you to make free Skype-to-Skype voice and video calls over 3G and WiFi.
Besides supporting H.264 video format, Skype is continually expanding their horizons to make video calling possible on much wider range of devices and platforms. Skype takes video calling a step further, now you can even make a video calls on Skype-enabled TV.
Blekko, currently in beta, aims to be a better search engine than Google Search for the web.
Blekko’s unique feature is that it uses slashtags, sort of like Twitter slashtags and hashtags, to locate relevant information. According to Blekko, a slashtag is a tool to filter search results, rather than searching the entire web, using slashtag allows you to search only the particular section of the web you’re interested on.
Users can make their own slashtag, or use a list of Blekko’s built-in slashtags, that are edited and already maintained by them. And, that is where the spam disappears.
I recently stumbled upon a Bloomberg article entitled “Apple Sued Over Applications Giving Information to Advertisers.”
Apple Inc., making of the iPhone and iPad, was accused in a lawsuit of allowing applications for those devices to transmit users’ personal information to advertising networks without customers’ consent.
— Bloomberg
This is quite disheartening. As we had always thought that before an App is made available on Apple’s iTunes App Store, it goes through Apple’s rigorous App Approval Policy. Well, even Sony Reader™ app failed to get an approval! But, in the case of Sony Reader™, it was because Sony Reader™ app lacked In-App purchasing option, where Apple would get 30% share in In-App purchasing sales.
People’s Republic of China is cut off from the Internet world after the Chinese government decided to block Google, YouTube, Twitter and Facebook. Skype also has become inaccessible, as announced by the government in Beijing.
Other services such as Microsoft Messenger, GMail Talk are still in operation, but at this rate they too will soon see the scissors of censorship: the minister of propaganda Wang Chen said that these measures are taken to prevent access to “potentially dangerous information” to Chinese users.
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