Skype, Vapps offer free conference calling

Skype, Vapps offer free conference calling

Users of Skype's Internet telephony service can now create free conference calling with up to 500 participants on each call under a new service offered with VOIP (voice over Internet Protocol) vendor Vapps, the companies said Thursday.

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Report: Micron, Hynix e-mails point to price-fix scheme

Newly disclosed e-mails from computer chip makers Micron Technology and Hynix Semiconductor provide details that point towards a global price-fixing conspiracy that could support allegations made by Rambus, the Wall Street Journal reported.

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Yahoo launches new video site

Yahoo is set to launch a new video Web site in a bid to cash in on the popularity of viral video, which has pushed YouTube front and center.

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IBM Touts Missing Link To Utility Computing And Shared IT Resources

It's hard to implement shared IT resources or a utility computing environment if you can't accurately measure usage and bill the proper people or departments accordingly. IBM says it has solved that problem with the introduction Thursday of Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager, which it describes as the missing link necessary to tie IT infrastructure management to actual business usage.

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Microsoft to offer premium server license

Microsoft Corp. will offer a premium license for the upcoming version of its Exchange e-mail server that will let users do things like retrieve voice mails from their e-mail inboxes or give their computer a voice command to check their calendar or alert co-workers they're going to be late for a meeting.

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AOL e-mail delayed by software glitch

Millions of AOL users encountered delays sending and receiving e-mail for several hours Thursday before the company identified and fixed a software glitch.

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Google Adds Chat To Gmail

Google on Thursday incorporated instant messaging into its Web mail, making it possible to immediately chat with an email sender.

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Study: Asia leads spam relay

More spam is relayed through Asia than any other continent â?“ a sharp difference from the situation two years ago when the United States accounted for over half of all spam sent to the world.

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Google answers analyst questions

Google answers analyst questions

Google executives said they have no plans to build a browser and downplayed threats from Microsoft's new advertising system and plans to bundle search into the next version of its operating system.

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Next-generation Wi-Fi tech to deliver IPTV

Airgo Networks, which makes Wi-Fi chips, announced Tuesday that Caton Overseas and STMicroelectronics will use its latest generation of wireless technology to distribute video over Wi-Fi links throughout the home.

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Chicago seeks city-wide wireless Internet access

Chicago could soon become the world's largest Internet cafe now that the city hall has put out a request for bids to build a city-wide wireless Internet system.

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Gartner: Skype Bugs Bad News For Enterprise

The most recent bug in Skype is another clue to enterprises that they should steer clear of the VoIP service, research firm Gartner recently warned.

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Dell Agrees To Ship Skype With Mobile Entertainment PCs

Dell Inc. on Wednesday said it has agreed to ship its latest mobile entertainment PCs with Skype Internet telephony software pre-installed.

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NTT DoCoMo eyes Web search tie-up

NTT DoCoMo, the world's second-largest mobile-phone firm, may ally with online search engines to encourage users to spend more on internet services, challenging a tie-up between KDDI and Google.

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Ask.com adds new search tools for blogs

Ask.com is adding new tools to appeal to the growing online audience trying to track the latest commentary on blogs, marking the online search engine's latest move to become a more prominent player in its field.

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Coming soon: The Web toll

What if the Internet were like cable television, with Web sites grouped like channels into either basic or premium offerings? What if a few big companies decided which sites loaded quickly and which ones slowly, or not at all, on your computer?

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Gonzales pressures ISPs on data retention

Gonzales pressures ISPs on data retention

U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and FBI Director Robert Mueller on Friday urged telecommunications officials to record their customers' Internet activities, CNET News.com has learned.

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EU to tax e-mail, text messages?

European Union lawmakers are investigating a proposed tax on e-mails and mobile phone text messages as a way to fund the 25-member bloc in the future.

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Google Accounts For Half Of all U.S. Web Searches

Google in April accounted for one in two U.S. Web searches, a milestone for the search engine, a market research firm said Friday.

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Phishers use Microsoft Word hole as bait

Microsoft last week said it would rush to deliver a patch for a recently discovered hole in Microsoft Word that was being used in sophisticated online attacks.

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-read full story from InfoWorld.com, May 29 2006


Middle class goes broadband as price falls

Middle- and working-class Americans signed up for high-speed Internet access in record numbers in the past year, apparently lured by a price war among phone companies.

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China Ready To Swipe Spam Crown From U.S.

U.S. junk e-mailers sent more spam than those in any other country during the first quarter, a security company recently reported, although China is hot on America's heels.

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AT&T, Yahoo Jointly Offer VoIP

AT&T Inc. and Yahoo Inc. Wednesday officially rolled out integrated Internet-based voice services.

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New Service Turns Phones Into Mini-PCs

Sun claims, "The network is the computer." For social computing company TransMedia, the computer is the phone.

For more on this:-read full story from messagingpipeline.com, May 26 2006