A Very Short Letter From a Friend in Cairo

After a few days of trying, and despite the restrictions on communication to and from Egypt, today I heard back from a friend who’s in the thick of events unfolding there.

SAP CEO Steps Down

Telcos to Ribbit: What's Green and White and Red All Over?

Ribbit is as much “Silicon Valley’s first telephone company” as the region’s first to boast a silly name and grandiose claims. Still, the Silicon Valley start-up, which officially opened its Web-based telephony platform to third party developers this morning, is generating a lot of buzz for its Flash/Flex-based telephones (see video below), and rightly so. [...]

Telcos to Ribbit: What’s Green and White and Red All Over?

Ribbit is as much “Silicon Valley’s first telephone company” as the region’s first to boast a silly name and grandiose claims. Still, the Silicon Valley start-up, which officially opened its Web-based telephony platform to third party developers this morning, is generating a lot of buzz for its Flash/Flex-based telephones (see video below), and rightly so. [...]

Extending Cellphones’ Reach

The $150 Vtech LS5145 Expandable Cordless Phone System synchronizes with your cellphone and redirects incoming cell calls to ring wherever the VTech phones are placed in the house.
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iPhone to Support Third-Party Security Exploit Applications

Here’s an unintended, but perhaps inevitable, corollary to the iPhone’s success: the proof-of-concept security exploit. Researchers at Independent Security Evaluators have discovered a vulnerability that could give an attacker unfettered access to an iPhone, with administrator privileges, and they have written a bit of code to demonstrate it. “In our proof of concept, this code [...]

Please Leave a Message for Google to Data Mine After the Tone …

Let’s face it: Google probably knows more about us than the National Security Agency ever will. Over the years it has amassed a staggering amount of user data–search queries, email records, social networks, purchase histories and the like. And now it’s adding voice data. Or rather, more voice data than what it’s already collecting with [...]

The iPhone Is a Breakthrough Handheld Computer

The iPhone is a beautiful and breakthrough handheld computer, Walt Mossberg and Katherine Boehret say. A major drawback: the network it uses. Video
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Making Voice Mail More Like Email

We test Pinger, a free messaging service that tries to make voice mail a little more like email, or like a cellphone text message.
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