Loading ...“Just call my e-mail.”
That invitation, counter-intuitive as it may seem, is what Israeli start-up Yoomba Ltd. said Thursday it will allow consumers to do via an online service that enables instant-messaging and Web-based calling to anyone with e-mail.
Yoomba says it has made calling a friend as simple as sending an e-mail, with no special registration [...]
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I stumbled upon the headline, “iPhone a True Threat to Windows Mobile” on the blogosphere the other day and couldn’t help but chuckle a bit. How can the iPhone be a threat when millions of us can’t even use it because we’re not AT&T Wireless customers? Personally, I’m not in a position to pay to [...]
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Listen to an iPod during a storm and you may get more than electrifying tunes.
A Canadian jogger suffered wishbone-shaped chest and neck burns, ruptured eardrums, and a broken jaw when lightning traveled through his music player’s wires. Last summer, a Colorado teen was hurt when lightning struck nearby as he was listening to his iPod [...]
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Symantec has claimed some bragging rights over rival Microsoft by finding a vulnerability in Windows Firewall that backs up a warning the security firm made a year ago.
The company found a way to escalate network privileges via a smallish hole in Vista’s networking stack - a potential problem the company predicted in July 2006 - [...]
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It must be the dog days. Or maybe all the hackers are too busy trying to crack the iPhone.
Or maybe, just maybe, Microsoft is just getting caught up to fixing all the worst security bugs in its products. (Not my first guess.)
At any rate, while the company released a grand total of six patches for [...]
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Coming soon could be a wireless broadband world in which consumers get to pick any smartphone or other device and load any software on it — not have to take what the wireless carrier wants to sell.
That’s the goal of Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin, who will propose sweeping new rules for wireless airwaves [...]
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Security researchers are busy looking for flaws in the iPhone’s software and for ways of working around the restrictions imposed by the device.
“DVD” Jon Lech Johansen has released Phone Activation Server which, with some technical knowledge, can be used to activate an iPhone without AT&T’s involvement. Johansen says the result is that “The iPhone does [...]
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When Steve Jobs unveiled the iPhone in January, I wrote,
The other problem is that computers are inherently buggy. Macs crash, and it’s frustrating when they do. It’s even more frustrating, however, when your music player crashes, and if your phone or your TV crashes, you’ll probably want to tear your hair out. The iPhone is [...]
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