Travelers are getting a welcome gift from Skype in the form of free Wi-Fi access at more than 50 U.S. airports to place voice or video calls over Skype’s service on PCs, Macs, or iOS devices. The year-end promotion runs from Dec. 21 through Dec. 27. Read More »
Archive for December 2011
Apple’s television plans were outlined in somewhat greater detail in a report by the Wall Street Journal on Sunday. All those plans might be for naught, however thanks to lackluster demand for connected TVs. But there are a few good reasons Apple could beat the odds. Read More »
Every year, IBM comes up with a list of five innovations it believes will become popular within the next five years. For 2011, it has come up with the following technologies it thinks will gain traction. I also look back at some of its previous predictions. Read More »
On the scale of surprises, the news that British Telecom has become the latest technology company to sue Google is not at the high end. The number of Android lawsuits is so large that real question won’t be about who’s suing Google — but who isn’t. Read More »
Apple’s App Store alone is worth more than all of Research In Motion, the maker of BlackBerry devices. That’s according to a bit of quick-thinking analysis by Brian S. Hall, who notes that RIM as a whole can’t match the value of Apple’s mobile software marketplace. Read More »
Gen Y members may be natural telecommuters, as FlexJobs CEO Sara Sutton Fell has claimed, but it appears their natural affinity for mobile work doesn’t come equipped with natural instincts for data security, at least if a new survey from Cisco is to be believed. Read More »
Apple’s iPhone 4S is on a roll this holiday in the UK, where it accounted for almost a quarter of all smartphone sales during the four weeks leading up to Dec. 9. Even older iPhone devices, like the 3GS, outperformed newer devices like Nokia’s Lumia line. Read More »
VidScale wants to make more efficient use of existing infrastructure, by introducing content delivery network and transparent caching technology into their networks. It’s been chosen by Avail-TVN, which is helping network operators to roll out TV Everywhere services and offer more streaming content to users. Read More »
What’s the latest battle in the mobile app space? It’s probably going to be around automatically editing videos on mobile devices, as apps from cloud-based video editing services like Animoto and Magisto begin to emerge on the iPhone and other mobile devices. Read More »
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