Category: Communication

  • Focus on the conversation not the medium with Skype 4 beta

    Skype, the internet phone service, has opened a public beta test of Skype 4, the next version of the software you use to make phone and video calls and do text messaging. If you’re a Skype user, you’ll notice an…

  • Firefox aims for another first

    Are you going to download Firefox version 3.0 today? After months of testing the new browser version and quite a few public betas and release candidates (I’m currently running RC2), the final version will be available at 5pm GMT today.…

  • Getting rid of unwelcome attention in FriendFeed

    One of the reasons why FriendFeed has captured so many imaginations, certainly in the tech community, is the way in which it has rapidly developed as a place where conversations happen. Originally started in October 2007 as an aggregator for…

  • Government to ban product placement on TV

    One of the great things about digital TV and a personal video recorder (PVR) is the ease with which you as a viewer can wholly control what you watch. With the exception of the news, I rarely watch TV as…

  • Who has responsibility for addressing PR spam?

    Since I last wrote about PR spam a few weeks ago, I’ve been keeping an eye on some of the email that’s ended up in the spam folders in Outlook. It’s a never-ending stream of spam, and it’s getting worse…