Scratches Mar New iPod's Beauty
There’s no other major item most of us own that is as confusing, unpredictable and unreliable as our personal computers. Everybody has questions about them, and we aim to help. Here are a few questions...
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Faster, iPhone! Kill! Kill!
With less than three months to go before Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple (AAPL) observers are slowly being swept up in that most hallowed of Mac faithful traditions: the futile guessing...
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Happy Chat: Paltalk Buys Back Its Shares From Softbank, at a Premium
Here’s a funding story you don’t see often, recession or no: A start-up buying back its shares from its venture capitalist, at a premium. But that’s the transaction video-chat firm Paltalk and Softbank...
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With Video Chatting, It's a Small World After All
Before my sister and her husband moved to South America about a month ago, they convinced family members to use video chatting as a means of keeping in touch. After helping relatives download Skype...
View ArticleThe $100M Revenue Club: EHarmony Captures Hearts Of VCs
EHarmony Inc. may not be the trendiest or flashiest dating Web site out there, but it has steadily grown to become a big piece of the online dating space. The company has done this by bucking the...
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New iPods: Touch Gets FaceTime, Nano Gets Multitouch, Shuffle Gets Click Wheel
Apple’s (AAPL) refreshed lineup of iPods, introduced by Steve Jobs today, looks pretty much as anticipated. The iPod touch–the No. 1 portable gaming machine in the world, Jobs said–is getting the...
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Tango Brings a New Face to Mobile Video Calls
There is nothing new about video chatting on computers, where people commonly use Skype and other services to keep in touch visually. But the function is just getting started on mobile phones, at least...
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Skype Does Better With Group Calls Than Mobile
Making audio and video calls between computers over Skype is now so common that the company’s name has become a verb. People ask others to “Skype me” or say they are “Skyping.” [ See post to watch...
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Four Big Projects Facebook Should Launch, and Probably Will–Even Though It...
Steve Jobs is famous for publicly dismissing a market shortly before Apple enters it. And Mark Zuckerberg and his team seem to have some Steve Jobs in them: There are several obvious product launches...
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Skype's iPad Plans Leak Out Over YouTube
I bet there are some angry Skype calls going around inside the company’s headquarters over this one. The video chat company was planning to wait until next week to announce its iPad plans, but the cat...
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Real Bonding With Family Around the TV Via Skype
As you read these words, millions of people are conducting video chats using the popular Skype service, now owned by Microsoft. Most of these calls are low-resolution encounters between two...
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Hangouts On Air: The Google+ Version of Public-Access TV
The beauty of local-access TV is that it has always been democratic. Whether you’re a seasoned on-camera vet or just a local yahoo with opinions, there’s little between you and the local TV-watching...
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Sean Parker and Shawn Fanning's Airtime Finally Launches Today
Airtime, the next act from Napster co-founders Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker, launches to the public today. The service is a Web application for person-to-person video calling, with an emphasis on...
View ArticleNot to Be Outdone by Airtime, YouTube App Updated for Google+ Hangouts
YouTube announced on Thursday an update to its app for Google+ that will allow users to make playlists of YouTube videos inside of Hangouts, the group video chat feature that Google+ prides itself...
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Videogame Distribution Shifting Online, Even for TV-Tethered Consoles
Internet-enabled devices such as phones, tablets and computers are making it insanely easy for consumers to discover and play new videogames. And it’s that kind of online connectivity that is expected...
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Can Google Make a Case for Hangouts?
Back when Google first unveiled Google+, Hangouts looked to be the company’s secret weapon. One week after Hangouts first debuted, if you’ll recall, Facebook looked foolish when it unveiled its...
View ArticleGoogle Adds Video Hangouts to Gmail, as Expected
Google today added its distinctive group video chat Google+ Hangouts tool to Gmail, expanding on the email service’s existing video chat to add mobile support, screen sharing and silly effects. This...
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A Chance to Call 15 Friends to Video Chat in High Def
There are lots of ways for consumers to conduct free one-to-one video calls on computers and mobile devices. The best known is Microsoft’s Skype service, but there is Apple’s FaceTime, a good service...
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Telefónica Digital Buys Video Chat Platform TokBox
In a transaction that will make the online video calling start-up a wholly owned subsidiary, Telefónica Digital has acquired TokBox. The purchase price was not disclosed. TokBox video chat Like other...
View ArticleAfter Leaving Zynga, Wilson Kriegel Surfaces at Paltalk
Wilson Kriegel has been named president and COO of Paltalk, a provider of group video calls. Prior to joining the New York company, Kriegel was at Zynga, having joined the social games maker through...
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Jibe Picks Up $8.3 Million From Vodafone and MTI to Help Build...
Jibe Mobile is betting that one of the biggest app categories — mobile video chat — is soon to become a feature of other apps. The days of old-school calling or texting someone — even on a cellphone —...
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'Twas the Night Before Christmas and Santa's Online
’Twas the night before Christmas, And Santa’s online. He’s emailing and calling, And all just in time. With holiday cheer, And a techie assist, He’s using the Web To re-check his list. It won’t fit...
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Skype Begins Testing Video Messaging Feature
Skype has started allowing some users to send short video messages to one another when their friends aren’t available for a live chat. The Microsoft-owned service had said the feature is coming....
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New Spin on Video Chats Brings More to the Party
Holding video chats on your mobile devices can be a great thing. But many of the common video chat apps only allow two-party calls, at least for free, or require you to have an account with a large...
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AllThingsD in the Media: Microsoft's Next CEO (Maybe) and a New Video Chat App
Another busy week of tech news — and when was the last time it wasn’t a busy week? — meant AllThingsD’s personnel was equally busy in the media. Early in the week, on Sept. 30, Kara Swisher was on CNBC...
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