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<a href="/article/11015"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('11015', 'show')">Verizon Dials in Skype</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_11015" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_11015">Verizon will offer a unique Skype client for its smartphones that's focused on Skype-to-Skype calls made over Verizon's 3G network.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=5" class="category">Networking</a> | by <a href="/author/Glenn%20Fleishman">Glenn Fleishman</a> | 16 Feb 2010</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_11009" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_11009">Steve Jobs will cooperate with best-selling biographer Walter Isaacson on his biography, the New York Times reports. While the article relies on anonymous sources, it's obvious Jobs would be happy to be in the company of Benjamin Franklin and Albert Einstein, the subjects of former Time manager editor Isaacson's previous biographies.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=21" class="category">External Links</a> | 15 Feb 2010</div></div></div>
<a href="/article/10994"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('10994', 'show')">What's the Google Buzz? Tell Me What's A-Happening</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10994" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10994">Google wants to capture what's most hip about Facebook, Twitter, and other social-networking sites, and wrap it inside Gmail's already bulging bag of tricks. Is Google Buzz worth the buzz?</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=5" class="category">Networking</a> | by <a href="/author/Glenn%20Fleishman">Glenn Fleishman</a> | 14 Feb 2010 | <a href="/article/10994#comments">7 comments</a></div></div>
<a href="/article/10991"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('10991', 'show')">Hulu Working on iPhone App?</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10991" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10991">One of the main arguments for Adobe Flash support in the iPhone OS is to provide access to Hulu, the streaming television and movie service that requires Flash. TechCrunch says an iPhone app is likely in development.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=17" class="category">iPhone iPad iPod</a> | by <a href="/author/Glenn%20Fleishman">Glenn Fleishman</a> | 10 Feb 2010 | <a href="/article/10991#comments">6 comments</a></div></div>
<div class="link_hover" id="link_box_full_10982" onMouseOver="blurb_slide('10982', 'show'); link_hover_swap('10982', 'in')" onMouseOut="link_hover_swap('10982', 'out')"><div class="link_hover_title"><a href="http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/att-and-sling-media-collaborate-on-slingplayer-mobile-app-for-3g-mobile-broadband-network-83531982.html" id="link_hover_title_10982">Slingbox for iPhone Will Work over 3G</a></div><div class="link_box_right" id="link_box_right_10982" style="visibility:hidden"><img src="/images/external_link_arrow.gif" height="15" width="15" border="0" alt="arrow"> <img src="/images/favicons/prnewswire.png" border="0" alt="favicon"> </div></div><div class="spacer"></div>
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<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10982" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10982">AT&T and Sling Media have worked out a deal where SlingPlayer Mobile app for iPhone will be able to stream content from an individual's SlingPlayer digital video recorder over a 3G network. AT&T also said it has worked out streaming video guidelines for 3G, which other developers will have access to in the second quarter of 2010. The updated version hasn't yet been approved and posted by Apple, but it's unlikely to hit other snags.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=21" class="category">External Links</a> | 04 Feb 2010</div></div></div>
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<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10978" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10978">Skype said in a blog post (with a brief video interview) that Apple's iPhone OS 3.2 update, currently available for testing with developers, provides the changes necessary to allow voice-over-IP calls using a 3G connection. Apple had previously not allowed this, but U.S. regulators pressed for a change, which Apple has made. Skype says the new release will come when it is confident of its software's capability to make high-quality calls. </div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=21" class="category">External Links</a> | 03 Feb 2010</div></div></div>
<a href="/article/10971"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('10971', 'show')">Can You Get By with 250 MB of Data Per Month?</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10971" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10971">Apple said AT&T will offer two service plans for the 3G iPad on a month-by-month basis. The option for 250 MB per month seems laughably small - but check your iPhone. It may be plenty.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=17" class="category">iPhone iPad iPod</a> | by <a href="/author/Glenn%20Fleishman">Glenn Fleishman</a> | 02 Feb 2010 | <a href="/article/10971#comments">84 comments</a></div></div>
<a href="/article/10966"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('10966', 'show')">Is the iPad a Kindle Killer?</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10966" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10966">Does the iPad's general-purpose nature, color LCD screen, and App Store spell doom for the specialized Amazon Kindle ebook reader and its proprietary ebook catalog?</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=17" class="category">iPhone iPad iPod</a> | by <a href="/author/Glenn%20Fleishman">Glenn Fleishman</a> | 31 Jan 2010 | <a href="/article/10966#comments">20 comments</a></div></div>
<a href="/article/10960"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('10960', 'show')">Hands-on Impressions of the iPad</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10960" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10960">Jeff Carlson and Glenn Fleishman share their impressions of using the iPad during Apple's media event.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=17" class="category">iPhone iPad iPod</a> | by <a href="/author/Jeff%20Carlson">Jeff Carlson</a> and <a href="/author/Glenn%20Fleishman">Glenn Fleishman</a> | 29 Jan 2010 | <a href="/article/10960#comments">32 comments</a></div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10958" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10958">AT&T told the Associated Press it would bump wireless capital infrastructure spending by about $2 billion this year, and admitted to the well-known network deficiencies in New York and San Francisco.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=21" class="category">External Links</a> | 28 Jan 2010 | <a href="/article/10958#comments">1 comment | Comment on this link</a></div></div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10959" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10959">The latest revision to the Google Books settlement, an ongoing saga we've written about regularly here on TidBITS, is still opposed by Amazon.com and the Internet Archive, among others. The settlement in this revised version would still anoint Google with court approval as the only party in the United States that can scan and offer for sale copyrighted works that are out of print and for which the publisher isn't known.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=21" class="category">External Links</a> | 28 Jan 2010</div></div></div>
<a href="/article/10911"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('10911', 'show')">Google's Gmail Defaults to Encrypted Sessions</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10911" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10911">Google finally switches its Gmail service to offer an encrypted Web session by default, something we suggested years ago.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=13" class="category">Safe Computing</a> | by <a href="/author/Glenn%20Fleishman">Glenn Fleishman</a> | 13 Jan 2010 | <a href="/article/10911#comments">7 comments</a></div></div>
<a href="/article/10913"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('10913', 'show')">Citrix Ships Mac Version of GoToMyPC Remote Control Software</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10913" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10913">Citrix has released GoToMyPC for Mac OS X, remote-access and file-transfer software that works interoperably among Mac OS X, Windows, Linux, and Unix systems.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=5" class="category">Networking</a> | by <a href="/author/Glenn%20Fleishman">Glenn Fleishman</a> | 13 Jan 2010 | <a href="/article/10913#comments">5 comments</a></div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10852" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10852">Chuck Joiner interviews a slew of electronic book authors about electronic book readers, like the Kindle and Nook. Chuck talks to Michael Cohen, Glenn Fleishman, Joe Kissell, Kirk McElhearn, and Matt Neuburg, all Take Control authors who have strong opinions about print books, too.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=21" class="category">External Links</a> | 16 Dec 2009 | <a href="/article/10852#comments">3 comments | Comment on this link</a></div></div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10853" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10853">TidBITS editor Glenn Fleishman spent weeks driving aimlessly for Macworld, where his overall look at GPS navigation for the iPhone appears, along with reviews of nine apps and the TomTom car kit.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=21" class="category">External Links</a> | 16 Dec 2009 | <a href="/article/10853#comments">3 comments | Comment on this link</a></div></div></div>
<a href="/article/10849"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('10849', 'show')">Improve Wi-Fi Performance in the 5 GHz Band</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10849" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10849">As the 5 GHz band becomes increasingly used for Wi-Fi and cordless phones, some readers are finding interference in previously wide-open spectrum spaces. A few tips may help you reclaim space in that spectrum.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=5" class="category">Networking</a> | by <a href="/author/Glenn%20Fleishman">Glenn Fleishman</a> | 14 Dec 2009 | <a href="/article/10849#comments">3 comments</a></div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10826" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10826">Expanding vaguely on previous threats, AT&T's head says that the firm will offer "incentives" to have heavy users reduce their usage. Incentives is 1984-speak for penalties.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=21" class="category">External Links</a> | 09 Dec 2009 | <a href="/article/10826#comments">4 comments | Comment on this link</a></div></div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10827" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10827">David Pogue reviews the Barnes & Noble Nook electronic reader at the New York Times, and finds it a poor competitor to the Kindle for identical features, while its unique features don't measure up to a real difference.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=21" class="category">External Links</a> | 09 Dec 2009 | <a href="/article/10827#comments">1 comment | Comment on this link</a></div></div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10825" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10825">Fixes bugs related to Leopard upgrades to Snow Leopard, Wake on Demand, and creating a shared AirPort network connection. (Free, 13 MB)</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=22" class="category">Watchlist</a> | by <a href="/author/Glenn%20Fleishman">Glenn Fleishman</a> | 08 Dec 2009 | <a href="/article/10825#comments">11 comments</a></div></div>
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