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As we expected the 3 Skypephone has been announced today.
It’s a fully-featured 3G Internet phone with Skype built-in, giving Skype to Skype calls and Skype instant messages over the 3G network – all for no payment for calls. To call up the Skype functions, there’s a Skype button in the middle of the handset.
The handset also has Web access built in and the ability to play music from the 3 MusicStore, giving the ability to play over 500,000 tracks.
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There’s plenty of people and publications saying that Skype has been a failure for eBay.
Word to the wise – have you noticed that today it’s crossed the 10 million line today. That’s 10m people running the software concurrently. Pretty strong support in anyone’s book, we’d have said.
What with that and the introduction of the Skype High Quality video service coming out soon, it’s hardly a slouch is it?
Anyone who’s ever sat through long conference calls with a load of people sat around a table will be familiar with occasionally having to lurch over the desk to talk into the ‘sound station’ thingy.
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Regina Lynn has an informative and impassioned piece on Wired about a proposed US law that will extend requirements currently placed on porn studios to include online social networks, such as YouPorn.
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The plan is to allow planes to carry their own mobile micro-cell from about 2010 – as long as they don’t switch it on before they reach a height of 3,000 metres.
At least, that’s what Ofcom expects we’ll want as users; you have till 30 November to register your opinion.
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MySpace is to introduce MySpace IM with Skype, giving their considerable number of users the ability to directly IM with each other, and talk using Skype for zero cost.
The integration between MySpace and Skype sounds like it’s been considerable, with MySpace users able to block or grant access to them through settings on their MySpace pages, including only accepting calls from MySpace ‘friends.’ In addition MySpace profiles, photos or avatars can also be linked to their accounts on Skype.
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Google has rolled out a test version of an anti-piracy system for its hugely popular YouTube video sharing site.
The beta tool, called ‘YouTube Video Identification’, will let content owners intercept copyrighted clips as they’re being uploaded to YouTube.
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With punters lapping up the free email storage offered by Google’s GMail service, the company has pledged to accelerate the rate at which it adds storage space.
Google gave the world of free e-mail services an almighty kick up the jacksi back in April 2004 when it began offering 1GB of free storage for its Gmail service.
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If the growth of mobile access use continues at the current rate in the UK, future Brits may develop hands with massive thumbs, teensy little fingers and Quasimodo-like hunches developed from squinting at tiny little screens, according to a new study by the Mobile Data Association.
Well, alright, we made up the bit about the possible Darwinian side-effects, but the figures show that an awful lot of us are now getting on line with our phones, with the total now hovering around the 15 million mark.
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The latest version of Skype, currently in Windows beta, 3.6, has High Quality Video.
It makes sense that as capabilities of equipment and bandwidth improve, so should quality.
Don’t get too excited yet, because currently it only works with two of Logitech’s High Quality Video webcams – the Logitech QuickCam Pro for Notebooks and Logitech QuickCam Pro 9000 (See below to purchase from Amazon).
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