I’ve always been a relatively early adopter of new technologies, at least when it comes to cookware and sex. So at a seventh-grade slumber party in New Canaan, Conn., it was I who first brazenly entered the fray in an AOL chatroom with the line, “Okay, who here wants to DO IT?” (At the time, Read More
Senate Republicans are now available for “face-to-face, from anywhere in the state, or indeed, the world” because, their press office says they are now using Skype.
I just tested it, and it seems to work. So, who should I Skype with and what should I ask?
Investors who had been eagerly awaiting their chance to buy into Internet telephony service provider Skype will have to wait yet another long six months or so. The Wall Street Journal reports that the recent installment of CEO Tony Bates and potential trouble in the IPO market are holding the company back from its Read More
Welcome to 2011, the year in which principles of Net Neutrality, especially on mobile networks, will be put to the test in practice and in court.
MetroPCS announced its new 4G pricing plans yesterday, broken down into three seperate tiers at $40, $50 and $60 apiece.
The catch is that different parts of the web Read More
More than a third of China’s population is online, the Chinese government announced today, after a year of meteoric growth.
Also today, China banned Skype and shut down 60,000 Chinese porn sites. The porn crackdown came after a government-run contest that gave cash to citizens who reported offensive sites.
With no Read More
Are the holidays crashing our social media?
The popular voice, video and chat service Skype, which may be one of the few companies with more users than Facebook, was down this morning. “Calm down, everyone: Skype is down because Julian needs to make a private phone call,” wrote one commenter on the tech Read More
The new rules adopted by the FCC today are supposed to protect what has become the central tenet of the web, network neutrality. It’s a compromise, said FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski, designed to encourage companies to invest in broadband infrastructure, while preventing them from favoring one website or service over another.
But the ambiguous language Read More
