Quick follow up on the SkypeIn mis-routing story that we broke a couple of days a go.
Skype have now issued us a statement (don’t rush yourselves will you).
We’re aware of the problem and currently working to fix it. In the meantime, if any customers are experiencing problems, they can contact customer service at [email protected]
The super svelte and lovely MacBook Air that many people have been drooling over … nay, dreaming of, after having seen it just over a week ago at the MacWorld Keynote doesn’t appear to be impressing with it’s sluggish performance.
Engadget got hold of one to run some tests on it – Xbench 1.3 to be exact. The test numbers place it at the bottom on the league for speed of current machines.
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We’ve just received some interesting and tantalising shots of a new phone that we’re told is coming out of to the UK.
Details are very sketchy beyond it’s called the Liscio and is being aimed at those who want to ‘stand out from the crowd.’
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You’ll remember the outcry when Skype forced many of their 0207 SkypeIn subscribers to change their phone numbers late last year, due to Skype changing their suppliers, following an increase in costs.
Many didn’t take up Skype’s offer to use new SkypeIn numbers, opting instead to transfer their SkypeIn number to another VoIP provider (we changed ours to VoIPFone).
We’re getting reports of problems – and have experienced problems ourselves – of calls being incorrectly routed to Skype accounts when these number are called within Skype.
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One of the (many) complaints that people had with the BBC iPlayer was that their processing power and bandwidth was being used even when they didn’t have the iPlayer application loaded.
While some of the more technically minded might have known that this would have been the case by default, the majority – and let’s not forget that this is a service aimed at the general public – had not clue about it.
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These are days you can turn around for podcasts, so each person who launches one has to find an angle. One that caught our eye today was from Hampshire police with their Plod-cast.
For our non-UK readers, The Plod, or PC Plod is a slang term referring to the police, with its origins lying with Mr Plod, the policeman in Enid Blyton’s Noddy stories.
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Everyone’s had that heart stopping moment when their mobile phone falls from they hands and tumbles towards the ground – there’s a frantic reaction as you attempt to grab for it with flailing arms, often resorting to placing your foot in the way to try and brake the fall.
With a newly-announced phone, the Sonim XP1, this will no longer be a problem, in fact, it looks like you can be pretty rough with it and it’ll still work.
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MySpace is to launch MySpace Celebrity, a ‘channel’ (read Web page) on MySpace that bring to attention MySpace pages of ‘celebrities.’
The illusion they are trying to create is that MySpace users will be able to interact with their favourite stars. The likelihood is that they will in fact be communicating with one of the team responsible for running the site for the ‘celebrities.’
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Rumours are circulating that HD-DVD could be losing the support of another studio.
Yesterday, we covered Warner Brothers showing their cards and deciding to support Blu-ray in favour of HD-DVD, despite comments from Toshiba that there may be some legal contracts in place with Warners.
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Skype _will_ be coming to Sony’s PSP.
Following on from all of the faux-shyness of Skype and Sony refusing to officially confirm that Skype was going to be seen on the Sony PSP at CES, they’ve just released the news that … tad daaaa … it is. So no shock there and both Sony and Skype end up with some pre-CES buzz and everyone in the PR departments are happy.
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