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Microsoft’s $8.5 billion acquisition of Skype has finally been closed, the company recently announced. The plan is for Skype to become a new business unit within Microsoft, with Skype CEO Tony Bates becoming the president of the newly created Skype division. Users should expect for Microsoft to integrate Skype into a variety of its products, including mobile. Discussing plans of the future after joining forces…
blueSLR has expanded from iPhone to support Android and BlackBerry handsets recently. By slapping their Bluetooth accessory onto the side of your DSLR camera, you can control shooting settings for your camera from your phone, as well as geotag photos and upload them to Flickr, Picasa, and other web albums. Although cameras on smartphones are…
You’ve probably already seen Verizon Wireless’ recently unveiled Samsung Stratosphere. If you haven’t, make sure to check out our hands-on post where we briefly check the first QWERTY keyboard-equipped Android smartphone that sings along the Big Red carrier’s LTE network. It is available for $149.99 with a new two-year contract, but we’re hearing Staples will…
Are you using an ADSL line to connect your home to the internet, what about VDSL? Do you have a DOCIS modem, if so then is it DOCIS 1.0, 2.0, or 3.0? You probably don’t know the answer to that question since for you the broadband that gets delivered to your home is simply a…
The meeting room where the NFC (Near Field Communication) Forum holds their biweekly game of beer pong needs to be upgraded since they’ve just added 29 new members. Some of the companies you may have heard about: HTC, the folks who make high end Android smartphones with this thing called Sense UI on top that…
T-Mobile updated its VoIP service Bobsled with new features. The new functionality provides users with an easy way to call Facebook friends from most desktop browsers, Android-powered smartphones and tablets, as well as Apple iOS devices. In addition, the service now provides users with free calls to any mobile or landline phone number in the…
While it wasn’t the announcement we were hoping for from Samsung at CTIA 2011, the company did show off the Verizon Stratosphere, the first 4G LTE device on the network with a full QWERTY keyboard. We’re rocking and rolling at CTIA, so you just know we had to play with it. The Samsung Stratosphere has…
Yesterday, RIM announced that they would be incorporating an NFC feature called Tag into their next BlackBerry 7 update. It will let owners of NFC-enabled BlackBerry devices to swap contacts, documents, web site URLs, pictures, and videos just by tapping their phones together. Yeah, it sounds an awful lot like Bump, but good luck getting…
Mobile VoIP service provider Vopium is organizing a neat contest to celebrate its fifth year in business. The so called “Vopium Birthday Blowout” sweepstakes have already started and will go through October 31st. Every week Vopium users (you need to have an account to participate) could win cool prizes, including call credits, iPods, T-shirts, and…
Microsoft, coming fresh off its first major update to its new Mango operating system, indicated that future Windows Phone models will have dual-core processors or support for faster LTE networks, in a interview with AllThingsD. This comes straight from the lips of Windows Phone head man, Andy Lees. In the interview, Lees remained confident in the progress…