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- Skype
- An Internet phone service from Skype Limited, Luxembourg (www.skype.com). Being softphone based, calls from Skype subscribers originate from their PCs. All PC-to-PC calls between Skype subscribers are free,...
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ZDNet Resources
- Conversion of Skype voice mail to SMS is on the way
- Jim Courtney of Skype Journal certainly seems intrigued by a forthcoming service from SpinVox and Skype that will enable users to have all their voice messages converted and sent directly to their cellphones as an SMS when they are not at their PC.SpinVox notes that the caller's Skype ID,...
- Tags: Skype
- Blog posts 2007-08-02
- Is Skype overcharging for foreign character SMS?
- According to a post on Skype News, there are some issues that appear to come into play when a Skype user enters a non-English character into your Skype SMS screen.The unsigned poster charges that these non-English characters can be misinterpreted by Skype's SMS interface as constituting way more characters than...
- Tags: Skype, Case Studies
- Blog posts 2007-05-21
- Skype promotion cuts SMS message rates in half: here's why they are doing this
- This morning, Skype announced that from now until the end of next Tuesday (May 8), Skype users anywhere in the world who send SMS messages to recipients in the United States, Australia, Poland, Russia, Taiwan, Belgium, Thailand, Ireland, Austria and Italy will be charged...
- Tags: Skype, General
- Blog posts 2007-05-03
Additional Resources
- Has technology evolved our language beyond recognition?
- You pick up your Blackberry in the morning because your notebook has a virus. You connect to your cloud storage and retrieve a few documents to store on your drive, and grab yourself a cup of Java. I get emails every day, mostly ordinary commentary from like-minded...
- Tags: Legend, RIM BlackBerry, Virus, Computer, Internet, E-mail, Productivity, Cyberthreats, Notebooks, Handhelds, Online Communications, Security, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- The widget conundrum
- There's a pretty good article in Advertising Age about the benefits of widgets and the fact that not a lot of people are using it. AdAge says that "entire segment" will amount to around $100 million. That sounds like a chunk of money, and especially one for an industry that...
- Tags: Advertisement, Microsoft Silverlight, Mobile, Rich Internet Application, AdAge, Widgets, Desktops, Hardware, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- News to know: Mumbai attacks, Microhoo, Holiday shopping, HDTVs
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Jennifer Leggio: Mumbai attack coverage demonstrates good and bad maturation point of social media Social media marketing opportunism during tragedy = fail Oliver Marks: Mumbai Attacks...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., HDTV, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Attack, Digital Video, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Open Source, Personal Technology, Internet, Security, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- Distributed and Parallel Database Systems
- The maturation of Database Management System DBMS technology has coincided with significant developments in distributed computing and parallel processing technologies. The end result is the emergence of distributed database management systems and parallel database management systems. These systems have started to become the dominant data management tools for highly data-intensive...
- Tags: Database Management System, Database Management, Database System, University Of Alberta, Databases, Storage, Data Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware
- White papers 2008-12-01
- Security Lessons and Your Personal Firewall
- There's an interesting dynamic I've been noticing and discussing a lot recently - people and companies are grappling with how to project some facets of their lives and information online while keeping other areas secret. As i suggested in my previous post, it...
- Tags: Facebook, Firewall, Personal Firewall, Security, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-11-30
- IBM, HP update workflow and forms software with an eye to cutting paper waste
- I love it when competing vendors do something semi-related within days of each other, because it makes these posts so much more relevant. So, here's the deal: Both IBM and Hewlett-Packard are making some noise right now about the impact of enterprise document management technology on green technology agendas. I...
- Tags: U.S. Army, Hewlett-Packard Co., Workflow, IBM Corp., Document Management, Tools & Techniques, Content Management, Managerial Accounting, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-11-28
- SMS fees impacting Twitter feature
- Just this week, I was applauding Twitter for rejecting an offer from Facebook. One reason I noted was that Twitter's SMS text feature makes alerts from twittering (tweeting?) news outlets such as ZDNet even more valuable. Now, that feature seems headed for the history books as wireless carriers impose fee...
- Tags: Wireless Carrier, SMS, Twitter, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Telephony, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Networking, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-11-26
- If networking can be hip and cool, then so can storage
- In a blog post last month, I chimed in on how some tech companies - notably Dell and Cisco - were using video as a marketing tool to promote their technologies, not just their brand names. After all, if networking comes across as cool, then maybe you'll buy a Cisco...
- Tags: Hard Drive, Network, Video, Cisco Systems Inc., Corporate Communications, Storage, Marketing, Hardware, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-11-26
- I'm a PC and, yes, I love Vista
- * Ryan Naraine is on vacation. Guest editorial by Todd Hooper It's true - I'm a PC. Searching through my 2006 emails recently reminded me it was two years ago this month when I loaded a beta of Windows Vista on...
- Tags: Security, PC, Microsoft Windows Vista, Laptop Computer, NAP Agent, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-11-26
- Cassatt helps organizations implement in-house clouds
- A crew of folks from Cassatt presented Active Profiling Service, a new service offering, and Active Response 5.2, a product update for the company's orchestration and automation product. I was very interested in learning more because Cassatt has long been helping organizations discover and then make best use of their...
- Tags: Cassatt Corp., Data Center, Cassatt Active Profiling Service, Cassatt Active Response, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-11-26
- Twitter: is there any point?
- The last few days have been an eye-opener for me, because I've discovered there may in fact be little point in having Twitter. I see Twitter as a pain in the arse, something you have to go out of your way for and tell the world something you really shouldn't...
- Tags: Twitter, Channel Management, Marketing, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-11-25
- What people use their mobile data connections for
- Activity Subscribers, 000 Share of mobile subscribers Growth, % News & Info via Browser 36,185 15.9% 1.3% News & Info via Download 13,274 5.8% 7.0% IM 21,032 9.2% 6.1% News & Info via SMS 18,727 8.2% 4.0% Social Networking 14,94...
- Tags: Mobile, SMS, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Advertising & Promotion, Telephony, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Marketing, Networking, NB
- Blog posts 2008-11-24
- Text analytics helps find what you're searching for
- As search becomes more and more of a commodity, many people are beginning to ask “what’s next” for the enterprise search industry. The answer may lie with the fast-evolving area of text analytics, says Lexalytics' Jeff Catlin. Commentary--Enterprise search is still growing, evolving and improving....
- Tags: Enterprise Search, Financial Planning, Cloud Computing, Finance, search, analytics, Jeff Catlin, Lexalytics, Special to ZDNet, Jeff Catlin, Lexalytics, Special to ZDNet
- News items 2008-11-24
- Twitter is smart to reject Facebook and go it alone
- Talks between Facebook and Twitter have broken down, Kara Swisher reports in a post on the Boomtown blog today, and - on the surface - it looks like the dividing issue was money. (Isn't it always?) Facebook was offering $500 million in Facebook stock based on what what Twitter considered...
- Tags: Facebook, Twitter, Operational Accounting, Finance, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-11-24
- The ultimate student handheld: something for Christmas?
- I've taken many months looking for the ultimate student device; something fairly cheap and not too expensive especially in this current credit climate, something that'll last for a while, something which which can be multi-purpose; none of this "buy a camera, a phone and a sat-nav" when you can have...
- Tags: Phone, Handheld, Video Call, Video, Camera, E61, E71, Multimedia Having Fun, Telecom & Utilities, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-11-24
- No drama, Obama? Sounds dramatic to me...
- In today's radio address, the President-elect specifically said he intends to add jobs in the greentech sector. Here's the specific passage: "We'll put people back to work rebuilding our crumbling roads and bridges, modernizing schools that are failing our children, and building wind farms and solar panels; fuel-efficient cars...
- Tags: Alternative Energy, Government, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-11-22
- iPhone update kills 12 security bugs
- Apple has released iPhone OS 2.2 with patches for 12 documented security flaws, some very serious. The vulnerabilities covered by the patch which also affect iPod Touch could allow remote code execution, information theft, software crashes and weakened encryption settings. The skinny on this...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Security, Issue, SMS, Arbitrary Code Execution, Security Bug, Application Termination, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Telephony, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Networking, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-11-21
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