Skype gets new owners and a $2.75 billion valuation
Friday, November 20th, 2009
Skype has finally been sold off from beleaguered auction house eBay, though they will retain a 30 percent stake in the company.
Skype has finally been sold off from beleaguered auction house eBay, though they will retain a 30 percent stake in the company.
Surpassing long-running leader Internet Explorer, the browser with the most security vulnerabilities is now Mozilla Firefox according to application security company Cenzic.
Microsoft has released a firmware update for its new Zune HD that brings a lot of upgrades.
Have you ever looked at your mouse and thought, ‘I wish someone would over complicate this?’ Well, your wishes have come true!
Without warning or any need based on it’s applications, iPhone gaming company Storm8 has been snooping on users’ cell phone numbers and storing them on their servers. Left unchecked, what other kind of malware might slip into the iTunes App Store?
In his review of the Motorola Droid, New York Times writer David Pogue tried to coin the phrase “App Phone” for the newest, high-end mobile devices, presumably because, well, you can install applications on them. While the newer platforms are getting a lot more attention from app developers, that’s not what makes them different.
A surge in book-related releases for the iPhone has some people wondering if the device can displace the Kindle as a lower-cost e-reader. Or the question could be posed, “If you build it, will they read?”
It seems that it was just yesterday that everyone was either dying to get a Wii or had just purchased one and was talking about how wonderful it was. Now, sales are way off and Nintendo is in pain.
WordPress 2.0 for the iPhone and iPod Touch has been released in the iTunes App Store.
The City of Los Angeles has decided that its 30,000 employees will “Go Google,” as the city has selected Gmail as its new email system. This decision might spell a troubling trend for Microsoft in the Enterprise Software market.
Over the weekend Mozilla Labs launched the prototype of a new Web-based messaging inbox called Raindrop that helps sift through all of your messages to make sure you don’t miss important ones. More importantly Raindrop collects your email, Twitter and Skype messages into one clean inbox called the Inflow.
Now every time a new user starts a blog on Wordpress.com, the default theme on their site will be mobile-friendly, demonstrating how important a consideration mobile devices have become for Web site owners.
The upstart search engine Wolfram Alpha released it’s also-ran iPhone search application to be had for the unbelievable price of 50 bucks on iTunes. Maybe the new kid on the search engine block doesn’t realize that people don’t pay for search, advertisers do.
Intel and AMD are forming battle lines for another round of processor warfare, each warming up to win the battle of the new, slimmer laptops to be managed by Windows 7.
The Acer Aspire AS5738PG might have a name that’s hard to remember, but it’s memorable in that it’s Acer’s first touch-enabled notebook. The new addition to the Aspire line will take advantage of the full multi-touch capability of Windows 7.
Most in-home streaming music devices work with the iPhone by means of a dock, making it impossible to do anything else while you’re jamming out. The Zoneplayer S5, on the other hand, has an iPhone app that turns your phone into a remote control.
In the continuing saga between Google and AT&T, the FCC has now stepped in and is asking the search giant some serious questions. AT&T alleges that Google is violating net neutrality rules with its voice service. The allegations made by AT&T have caused the FCC to set in motion a probe into Google’s voice service.