With more than 400 million users around the world, Skype is set to make their grand entrance onto the smartphone scene and bump that 9-figure subscriber number just a little bit more.
Brad Stone of New York Times reports in his March 29 blog post that this Tuesday the world will welcome Skype for the iPhone.
This is a long anticipated launch that stands to shake up cellular carriers’ monopolies on the smartphone market. Or will it?
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In our first installment yesterday we introduced you to our ten favorite Apple, Design, Electronics and Entertainment blogs. In Part 2 of our blogs worth reading on a daily basis series, we offer our thoughts and analysis of blogs in the Japanese, Security, Technology and Startup categories, hopefully exposing you to a blog or two you were not previously familiar with. Sit back and allow the TechMiso crew to once again point you and your browser to a number of excellent blogs we find quite beneficial.
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There are thousands of web sites available for your reading pleasure. Each one of those sites are competing for a slight chunk of your time each day, including our beloved TechMiso. Many of us simply do not have the time to thoroughly examine the countless blogs available for evaluation, so how do we determine which RSS feeds are worth reading on a daily basis? Simple – allow the TechMiso crew to point you towards a number of high quality sites we consider extremely valuable and definitely worth your time each day.
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Just as cloud computing picks up steam and recognition, Coghead’s PaaS cloud is closing down on April 30, 2009. Their failure to raise funds and monetize their business model is forcing all Coghead users into offloading data and rewriting their specialized drag-and-drop database applications.
Coghead’s conundrum is one to take note of and typical of the risk involved with moving operations into a cloud computing environment. Lose your cloud provider and your faced with data migrations, application redesign and even worse – company downtime.
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Panic! Unseasoned IT staff saw Adobe’s recent security vulnerability as promise of devastation and widespread compromise. In fact, if you practiced ‘defense in depth,’ your network is safe and sound.
Like every other exploit, this one too was accompanied by the frightening canned phrase:
“These vulnerabilities may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial-of-service condition.”
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Unless you have been on the run from the police for the past couple weeks, you are already well aware of the radical layout changes to the Facebook home page. Most people have had an opportunity to test drive the new features, formulating an opinion on whether or not the modifications are worthwhile. Regardless of your thoughts on the new layout, it is important to point out that drastic layout changes of this nature are a huge challenge for the company managing the web property. Contrary to popular belief, most changes are not done on whim!
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Google does a disservice to its Gmail users by not turning on HTTPS by default — as doesn’t Facebook, MySpace, Hotmail, Twitter and other websites that require you to log on with username and password.
These and other sites not using SSL for their logon page could almost be called negligent in their [lack of] support for user privacy.
So why is the ‘S’ in HTTP’S’ important?
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President Barack Obama was the first candidate to make extensive use of social networking tools during his campaign for the presidency. His campaign used these tools so the average user benefitted from visiting Obama’s various web sites and social networking profiles. With Obama at the helm of the United States, one would expect the President to force a bureaucratic culture change, ushering in a new era of governmental use of social networking and embracing the web. Unfortunately, the government has both embraced and banned social networking in the same breath.
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