India Calling Cards

Today we were honored to have wireless visionary, serial entrepreneur and CEO of both Xircom and Xirrus, Dirk Gates in the TMC Newsroom in our Norwalk, CT headquarters. Xirrus Arrays provide super high-capacity 802.11 access points by utilizing cell phone tower technology used by wireless carriers and are capable of sending signals in three directions, Having done a long-term review of one of the company’s products, I can tell you the AP we have works and works well

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Xirrus Doubles Sales Again

We went shopping for clothes today. This is not something we do very often, but my wife had a gift card for Dillards so we went to see if we could find anything. My wife finally found some shirts she wanted to try on, but the store was short-staffed so the first couple of fitting rooms we tried were locked up

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Thinking in Hashtags

Hi all, we have received lots of great feedback about our upcoming editorial open house at TMC on August 12, 2010. Here are the details if you are interested in reserving a spot. Tags: communications , open house , technology , tmc Follow me: Facebook Profile Google Reader Profile Twitter Profile Related Entries ITEXPO West 2010 Starts in 68 Days – Jul 27, 2010 TMC Editorial Open House August 12th – Jul 19, 2010 TMC editors in San Jose Next Week – Jul 08, 2010 TMC Moves to New Headquarters Next Month – Jan 08, 2010 TMC Launches Blog Aid for Communications and Technology Markets: Those Out of Work Get a Voice – Nov 14, 2008 Communications and Technology Stories August 14, 2008 – Aug 14, 2008 TMCnet Hits 100 Sponsored Community Milestone – Apr 06, 2008 MyTMCnet – Mar 21, 2007 Communications in the Cloud Webinar – Jun 21, 2010 TMCnet Videos now More iPhone/iPod/iPad Friendly – Apr 21, 2010 TrackBacks | Comments | Tag with del.icio.us | Communications and Technology Blog – Tehrani.com Home | Permalink: Reminder: TMC Open House August 12, 2010 Copyright Communications and Technology Blog – Tehrani.com

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Reminder: TMC Open House August 12, 2010

“What happens if Google chooses to come into your space with your own content?” I grew up at a time when companies were afraid of Microsoft because whenever they came up with a good idea, Redmond would copy it and potentially put them out of business. They weren’t always successful but having the world’s largest software company in your market was generally a recipe for reducing investor interest. And I would have to say that after a lack of marketing skill, no other force has slain more tech entrepreneurs than Microsoft.

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Google Far More Feared than Microsoft

Language is obviously crucial to describing and understanding the world around us but did you know the particular language you speak can influence how you see the world as compared to speakers of other languages? This weekend I had a chance to read a fascinating article in the Wall Street Journal on the topic authored by Lera Boroditsky who is a professor of psychology at Stanford University and editor in chief of Frontiers in Cultural Psychology.

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Altering Language to Achieve Government Objectives

MadBid , a fast growing “pay-to-bid” auction site has secured £4 million in a Series A funding from Atomico Ventures. Launched in 2008, MadBid is one of a number of pay-to-bid auction sites which have appeared in the last couple of years, with Swoopo among them.

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Penny auction site MadBid secures £4m funding from Atomico Ventures

South Africa has recently become a very popular international calling destination due to the 2010 World Cup. Many people people at home are trying to find ways to make cheap calls to South Africa so they can keep in touch with family and friends attending the World Cup.

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Cheap International Calls to South Africa

Unless you have been living in a cave over the past few months, you would have heard about iPhone 4, Apple's latest and greatest phone, which went on sale overnight . To celebrate, we are all very excited to announce that we have just upgraded our iPhone  and iPod touch applications to take advantage of some of the great new features with this launch

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3G and background calling now available with Truphone v4.0

Teachers at my school are required to create a list of course expectations that they give to students (typically on the first day of school) and often also post to their website. This is pretty much what you would expect, a list of general information, procedures, and rules and regulations regarding the class

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Transparent Algebra: Course Expectations

Yes you heard it right. Many of you must have received mail from Skype regarding the free calls offer. For those and others as well let me share the news To celebrate a season of football, skype is offering you free calls to qualifying countries for a…

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Skype Free international calls for a month

(Credit: CNET) Probably like many people reading this blog post, I experienced firsthand the trouble Apple and AT&T had with the overwhelming number of preorders for the iPhone 4 on Tuesday. I thought I was being smart by deciding to skip the long lines and get the iPhone 4 delivered to my house, but I ended up getting nothing but errors after only the first few steps into the process. After several attempts, I decided to wait a couple of days before trying again and ended up buying the black 32GB model through Apple on Thursday

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Start your streak and swing to win: iPhone apps of the week

Okay so i was tryin to fix my microphone, people were saying it was very quiet, I finally found a volume increase in my sound options for my microphone, but i remember changing some options, i think i changed the “Default format” and after i did it warned me that something was already in use, and continuing might make the device stop working, i cant remember exactly what it said, but thinking back on it i shouldve hit no, but anyways now i cant hear anything, i cant hear anything on youtube or the internet or anything, the only thing i have that makes noise is skype, idk why, i can hear skype noises, i can hear ppl talk on skype, i can talk on skype myself, i just cant hear anything else, i tried going back what i did before and changed it back to default to see if it would fix it , but it didnt, im using a steelseries headset , can some1 pl help me, ive tried everything i could think of.

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Cant hear anything but skype

One month after releasing its open-source, royalty-free VP8 video compression technology, the company already is working on significant revisions to the technology. VP8, combined with the Vorbis audio technology, form the WebM codec with which Google is trying to unfetter Web video from the patent and royalty encumbrances of rival codec H.264

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Google opens up VP8 for Web video tweaks

(Credit: Mozilla) Mozilla released a minor update to its tabbed e-mail program Thunderbird 3 this week, in anticipation of the release of its next beta version. Thunderbird 3.0.5 for Windows , Mac , and Linux includes several fixes to the user interface, improves message indexing and profile access on a network, and corrects an e-mail notification bug on Mac OS X.

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Thunderbird gets minor point update

CNET News Poll Imagining iTunes 10 Which of these features will we see in iTunes 10? Syncing libraries across multiple computers Music stored “in the cloud” TV show or channel subscription service Podcast recorder and editor iChat-like function for video chatting with new iPhones Karaoke! Vocals stripped, lyrics shown Option to play vuvuzela over all tracks View results This week, Apple dropped iTunes 9.2 on us

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Friday Poll: What will iTunes 10 bring?

(Credit: Apple) Apple made some changes to its MobileMe service Friday. The MobileMe Mail service that was in beta for a little over a month is now available to all members. Mail at me.com now has widescreen and compact views, mail organization rules, single-click archiving, a formatting toolbar, SSL protection, and better junk mail protection

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Apple revamps MobileMe e-mail

Tales2Go streams kid-friendly short stories and full-length audiobooks, and it’s free until Labor Day. If you have children between the ages of 3 and 11, there’s an app you have to get: Tales2Go . It provides on-demand access to more than 1,000 children’s books and stories–everything from “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” to “Junie B

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(Credit: Google) Neither enabled by default nor particularly stable, the long-sought-after browser feature to synchronize extensions across multiple computers arrived Thursday in the developer’s builds of Google Chrome. Available for Windows , Mac , and Linux , Google Chrome dev 6.0.437.1 for Windows and Linux, and version 6.0.437.2 for Mac, include a rudimentary version of extension sync that users need to manually activate, a collection of the usual bug fixes and performance tweaks, and also combines the stop and reload buttons into one to streamline the omnibox and free up space for extension icons

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Shaky extension sync debuts in Chrome

In a new move to increase its user base, Skype has showcased its new software which will allow users to make video calls from their mobile phones to web enabled TV sets or computers at CommunicAsia, a technology tradeshow in Singapore. Currently this service will be available only on Symbian phones. Skype has tied up with Sony Ericsson to enable the VoIP software on the Satio, Vivaz, and Vivaz pro devices

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Skype Calls for ‘Ubiquity’: Mobile Video Calls

Attention readers – in our never-ending quest to keep TMC’s growing audience up to date on the latest happenings in the market we will be in DC with our video crew next week interviewing companies in the Baltimore and Washington DC area. We are looking for CEOs, CMOs, and Presidents at companies which are in the tech and/or communications spaces

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Looking for CXOs in DC/Maryland for Video Interviews

If you want to thank someone for lowering your phone bill, you have a few options – you can thank the founders of Skype and Vonage or go back to the nineties and thank the many people at VocalTec who invented and popularized VoIP before anyone else even thought of it. Much of the reason TMC decided to launch a magazine titled Internet Telephony back in 1997 was because we saw the transformational power of the IP telephony gateways and software which VocalTec produced. VocalTec co-founder Alon Cohen is a personal hero for what he did by literally changing the way the world communicates

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Phone.com and the Next Phase of VoIP

Millions and millions of crazy football fans across the world have joined in on the excitement of the 2010 FIFA World Cup. And multifarious services have risen up around the event to cash in on its popularity as fans shell out big bucks to maximize their fun.

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Fifa Fever Spreads Across Web, Mobile & Sms

OnePage , founded by Warwick University alumni Oo Nwoye and Joel Gascoigne, wants to make physical business cards a thing of the past by aggregating all of your contact details online. These can include anything from your homepage address, Skype and IM handles, to your Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn profile, along with a range of other social networking accounts.

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OnePage wants to make business cards a thing of the past

What if you are away from your PC/internet connection and still wants to stay connected on Skype. What if you are travelling and wants to make free calls to your Skype Contact ! Well Zenofon has released its new invention which allows you to assign your… This is only content summary.

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Zenofon : Make calls to Skype Contacts

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange wants a copy of the chat logs in which a U.S. intelligence analyst discussed providing classified materials to the whistle-blower site, according to an e-mail shown to Wired.com by the ex-hacker who turned the analyst in. Assange says he’s arranging the legal defense for 22-year-old Bradley Manning, now in his third week in military custody

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Wikileaks Commissions Lawyers to Defend Alleged Army Source

The preparation is almost complete, the hard months of training are nearly over and the big event is just one day away… Now you just need your team to win! The 2010 World Cup in South Africa is going to be an incredible event and with many fans travelling thousands of miles to watch their team, what better way to stay in touch with loved ones back home than with Truphone. With a free Truphone application, you can make low cost calls over Wi-Fi  to any local or international number

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Worry about your team, not your phone bill in South Africa.

As a tech person I am often called upon to help people I know fix their computers when there is a problem. While my regular readers are no doubt aware of many of the Internet scams which infect computers with malware, Trojans and viruses, I imagine many of you have had to spend hours and money trying to undo damage done by some of this software because others have been duped into clicking where they shouldn’t have. Having said that, I have been meaning to put together some graphics of “legitimate looking” scams to avoid and today my capable MIS team sent these images around – which of course reminded me to attend to this post which has been on my mind for a while.

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Malicious Software to Avoid Online

Adobe announced a new 0-day vulnerability in Flash, Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat over the weekend. The vulnerability lies in how Flash and Adobe Reader/Acrobat handles a specially formatted SWF file and the attacker can use this to automatically execute malware on the machine when the user just visits a website or opens up a PDF file

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Adobe 0-day vulnerability in Flash, Adobe Reader and Acrobat (CVE-2010-1297)

Google kept us busy with announcements at its I/O developer conference in San Francisco, like news of a Chrome Web Store , Google TV , a forthcoming update to the Android operating system that includes the first full-fledged Flash Player for a mobile phone, changes to the camera app, and support for tethering and portable hot spots, among a list of other additions. We happen to have a version of Android 2.2 (albeit a prefinal one) loaded on a Nexus One, and dove inside to survey the new features for ourselves. Originally posted at Android Atlas

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Android 2.2 in action (video!)

I was never a fan of the original Dolphin browser for Android , but when DolphinHD was released for Android 2.0 and above I figured I’d check it out for the feature set alone. Little did I know that within a day I’d make it the default browser on my Motorola Droid. Tapping the designated corner in the DolphinHD browser will let you control many browser functions with gestures.

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Why I switched to DolphinHD