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1. My 10 favorite Windows apps

   (Software/Software Features)

   ... and Chicago. 2. Skype. The TG Daily team all conference on Skype. I also use it to call people because I have Skype Out, It's just so much cheaper than using my BlackBerry, a landline at home, or worse, ...

2. FCC scrutinizes Google Voice restrictions

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   ... millions of dollars in universal service subsidies," said Whitt. Whit also criticized AT&T's alleged demand for web applications, including Skype and Google Voice, to be treated the "same way" ...

3. AT&T ends controversial ban on iPhone VoIP apps

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   ... applauded by Skype president Josh Silverman. "Since launching our iPhone application six months ago, people have downloaded and installed Skype on 10% of all iPhone and iPod touch devices sold - making ...

4. Down in the Valley, the car lots are empty

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   ... – we hadn’t come across a Skype appliance designed for senior people. You don’t need a PC or notebook to make this work – it’s standalone and you just press the buttons to turn it into a video phone. The ...

5. Silicon Valley returns to glory days

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   ... joining start-ups. There have been a lot of buy outs in the hi-tech field too.  This includes the purchase of Mint.com by Intuit for $170m,  Adobe buying Omniture for $1.8bn the sale of Skype ...

6. Ebay says: Skype out for $2.75 billion

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Voice over IP unit Skype has been sold by Ebay to an investment group for a cool $2.75 billion.Voice over IP unit Skype has been sold by Ebay to an investment group for a cool $2.75 billion. The investor ...

7. Watchdog bans "fake" Skype ad in UK

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   A UK television commercial for Skype has been banned, after regulator the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) decided that the company had faked the quality of images. London, UK - A UK television ...

8. Ebay may replace or shut down Skype

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   There is a new and rather dramatic development surrounding the dispute between between Ebay and the founders of Skype. Ebay announced that it has begun developing at least some code that could replace ...

9. Third party software slows Internet Explorer

   (Software/Software Features)

   ... The most troublesome add-ons typically are toolbars and browser helper objects, which will run with each new tab opened in the browser. One of the major culprits, according to Microsoft, is the Skype ...

10. How my Blackberry isn't crackberrying me up

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... GPRS coverage is very patchy in my sleepy hollow. The one thing I'd really like is a Skype client - there is one available on one of the sites that hosts free software apps for the Blackberry family but ...

11. Angry iPhone owners Push back over Skype

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    The latest iteration of Skype for the iPhone offers a number of useful features, including multiple language options, voicemail and SMS. Unfortunately, version 1.1 lacks critical Push Notification support. ...

12. TG Daily’s Dads and Grads Product Giveaway: Play along and win!

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... Whether your dad is tech savvy or not at all, Eyeball is a user-friendly, portable webcam that combines CD-quality audio and HD quality video, making it perfect for video conferencing through Skype or ...

13. Apple and AT&T explain Sling Player block

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... such as Skype can only be utilized via Wi-Fi. Many have speculated that the true reason for AT&T’s block of the SlingPlayer service as well as others  via its 3G network is actually due to potential ...

14. Windows 7 RC1 – first impressions

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... speeds of up to 800K/sec. Burned the image to a DVD and did a clean install on a second hard disk in this machine. Around two and a half hours from starting the process, I rejoined the TGD editorial Skype ...

15. AT&T to get RIM's Blackberry Curve 8900

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... Skype is expected to arrive this month and there is no information whether it will actually do voice calls through the AT&T or T-Mobile data network, so don’t hold your breath. We have had access ...

16. SlingPlayer shot down for iPhone App Store

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... Skype entered into, in which the software was required to only allow calls to be placed utilizing WiFi, which reduces the bandwidth usage by customers. At this time SlingPlayer has had no news from Apple ...

17. Ebay to divorce itself from Skype

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Ebay conceded that acquiring Skype back in September of 2005 was a mistake. While the online auction giant had big plans with the VoIP pioneer, the “synergies” are “limited”. Ebay now prepares Skype ...

18. Google allows Android tethering apps – outside the U.S.

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Software that takes secondary advantage of the data transfer capabilities in smartphones remains problematic, especially in the case of Android phones and the iPhone. Skype on the iPhone is growing ...

19. Showdown: Carriers threaten to ban Skype from cellular networks

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    The recent release of Skype for iPhone proved that yes, users are interested in replacing their costly carrier voice minutes with free (or much cheaper) VoIP calls -- downloading the Skype application ...

20. Skype's mobile assault: iPhone client due tomorrow, Blackberry in May

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Starting tomorrow, the Internet telephony giant should release mobile Skype client for iPhone and iPod touch. The application will allow users to make free VoIP calls to other mobile and desktop Skype ...

21. Skype using open-standard SIP for business VoIP service

    (Networking/Networking Features)

    Skype Technologies announced today a beta business-based VoIP service to run on the open-standard SIP (Session Initiation Protocol). The eBay-owned communications company has increases its base to well ...

22. Google introduces telephone services

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    ... features seen below. The new service, called Google Voice, will aid Google in propelling itself away from merely online search and advertising. Long distance carriers and VoIP companies like Skype may ...

23. CherryPal launches the Bing, an Atom-based notebook

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... the company's custom Green Maraschino Linux OS, which (in my opinion) leaves much to be desired. The product comes equipped with Firefox, OpenOffice, Skype, and other media software. The Intel Atom-based ...

24. Verizon Wireless honoring pre-cap contracts

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    ... had noticed my usage for this month had already exceeded 5 GB. As a result, I spoke with Wolfgang Gruener, TG Daily's founder, over Skype about this saying how great it was to not have bandwidth caps. ...

25. Review: Internet Explorer 8 improves with age

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... confirm related statements in the official IE8 Blog that efforts like these have been made. However, compatibility issues still remain with popular sites like Facebook, as well as plug-ins like Skype. ...

26. Joost kills desktop app

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

      Joost, founded by the Skype creators Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, has been downgraded to a YouTube clone as the company announced that it will disable streaming to its desktop client tomorrow. ...

27. Update: T-Mobile’s Android G1: The verdict is in

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... no VoIP (T-Mobile said it will not prevent VoIP calls over its network), Skype, stereo Bluetooth, or killer apps on the Android Market and there is a lack of computer syncing (you have to drag media by ...

28. Videosite Joost reinvents itself to become a Hulu clone

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    ... Hulu.com, one of the most popular streaming video sites that is owned by both Fox and NBC. Created by Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis (the creators of Kazaa and Skype) two years ago, Joost originally ...

29. Ebay to lay off more than 1000, spends $1.3 billion on acquisitions

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... - when the dotcom bust was still not over. However, industry sources suggest that the Skype business as well as StumbleUpon are up for sale.    ...

30. Fring debuts VoIP on the iPhone

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... chance to be officially approved by Apple. However, Fring has made it and enables users to send can instant message or place voice calls to your contacts on major platforms such as Skype, MSN or ICQ ...

31. Skype claims no knowledge of privacy breach

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

      After word begin to spread across the Internet yesterday that China was monitoring and filtering conversations in Skype, the company’s president addressed the issue stating that Skype was unaware ...

32. Skype Messaging Surveillance found in China

    (Security/Security Features)

    ... is capable of tracking text messages that are sent by TOM-Skype customers. TOM-Skype is a joint venture between eBay and a Chinese wireless provider. This discovery puts the heat on the Chinese government’s ...

33. iPhone 2.1 firmware update looms, delivers missing features?

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... my Skype, MMS and instant messaging, I need these features big time! The ability to play YouTube videos directly inside web page would be nice, but I would trade that anytime for wireless printing and ...

34. Vopium wants to be the first native VoIP app for the iPhone

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... in anticipation of an Apple-branded VoIP application based on iChat, you would be disappointed. Presently, iPhone users are limited to Web-based VoIP services such as Jajah, IM+ for Skype or Fringe . ...

35. HP tries to thump the Macbook Air with its Envy 133 notebook

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... can be fast-booted for quick access to common applications like a Firefox browser or Skype. The Envy should be available later this summer starting at $2100.  Not a bad price that all those features, ...

36. Who needs D-SUB, DVI, HDMI, DisplayPort? USB rocks!

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... difference in everyday applications such as web surfing, Photoshop, YouTube, Excel, Word, Skype or a Media Player. Given the fact that the USB controller requires CPU cycles to work, there is an obvious ...

37. Skype begins offering "all you can eat" calling plan

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Internet calling giant Skype announced today that it is offering an unlimited calling plan for local and long-distance calls.  Users wanting to go for a plan of calls to US and Canada can pay $2.95 ...

38. Fring VoIP for the iPhone: Why should you care?

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... but we already have a good idea how Fring for iPhone can unite all of your contacts from Windows Live Messenger, Skype, Google Talk, ICQ, Twitter and Yahoo! Messenger within a single, unified interface: ...

39. The iPhone's next killer apps: VoIP and videoconferencing

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    ... kind of VoIP solution, such as Skype, that will enable iPhone users to place free phone calls over Wi-Fi network. The prospects for a VoIP iPhone app looked grim when we learned that the iPhone SDK doesn't ...

40. 10 things you didn’t know about … André Eriksen

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... eating Italian specialties and watching the Formula 1 race. Yes that was pretty close to luxury…   I wish I had invented … Skype! Although I do not believe that there is much business in it, but ...

41. Intel fires up new Atom processors

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... display, you can install anything from Firefox, Skype (Intel says there will be a special version of Skype for MIDs), Google Earth, office applications and well, if you really want to, games and Photoshop. ...

42. The joys of finding high-speed Internet

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... won’t let you disable the updates. Thankfully most of the McDonalds in Thailand have very fast wireless Internet.  It’s fast enough for Skype conversations, uploading large video files and even Bittorrent.  ...

43. Original Ada Lovelace painting purchased on eBay

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... a flurry of emails, Skype messages and phone calls between fellow computer geeks, historians and antique dealers who tried to authenticate the drawing.  Experts soon agreed that the portrait was done ...

44. Skype comes to PSP

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    PSP owners will finally make good use out of the system's voice-over IP functionality, with the official addition of a custom version of the online calling service Skype. Culver City (CA) - PSP ...

45. Asus Eee PC – pc power in the palm of your hands

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... the code available.  Read about that here . The Internet tab is probably where most people will spend their time because it has the web browser, Skype and shortcuts to the popular web-based mail ...

46. IPEVO SOLO Skype Desktop Phone Review

    (Networking/Networking Features)

    The SOLO is a self-contained desktop Skype phone for those who don't want to run a computer for Skype calling. As an active Skype user, I’m constantly on the lookout for new Skype-related products that ...

47. Asus releases 4G sub-sub-notebook to western world, the Eee PC 701

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Brief)

    ... video memory. It comes with standard Linux apps, including web mail, internet browser, iGoogle, IM client, Skype, and several other shortcut links.  Costing US$399, or about 220 British Pounds, the ...

48. Nokia upgrades its Internet tablet

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... Nokia says that the N810 enables users to make VoIP calls (via Skype or video chats via Gizmo), check email, stay in touch with social networks, watch videos on YouTube or update a blog. The technology ...

49. UPDATE: Skype co-founder steps down, "monetization" on users lower than expected

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Niklas Zennstrom appears to be preparing his exit from Skype. Ebay today announced that the Zennstrom has stepped down as CEO from the company he co-founded in 2003 and has moved into a role as non-executive ...

50. Joost 1.0 beta goes live

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Joost, a YouTube competitor from the creators of Skype, has gone to version 1.0, edging its way to becoming officially off the ground. Los Angeles (CA) - Joost, a YouTube competitor from the creators ...