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Full story: Using Skype via wi-fi without a computer
Browsing in my local PC World yesterday, I came across a display of the new Belkin wi-fi phone for Skype. It looks very appealing – a phone that enables you to make and receive Skype calls without using your computer. All you need is access to a wireless network and you’re off. I’d find such a device very useful. Imagine sitting in an airport, train station, someone’s office – just about anywhere, really – and be able to connect to…
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Full story: A weekend roundup
One of the neat features of the FeedDemon RSS aggregator is how easy it is to manipulate the news and information that you subscribe to. For example, highlighting items of interest for later attention, such as blogging about them. You can do that manually, copying those items to a news bin, or automatically by setting up watches and search channels that search for keywords in feeds as they arrive (see the concise features list). That’s been pretty useful this weekend…
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Full story: iPod via your car radio: Now it’s legal
I had a great feeling of liberation yesterday – driving along listening to a podcast on my iPod via my car stereo, and doing it completely legally. Yesterday On Friday, a change in the law came into force in the UK that makes it legal to do this. There is already a proliferation of gadgets on the market here that let you do this, like these. Legal to buy, illegal to use until now (how crazy does that seem?). I…
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Full story: The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #196: December 7, 2006
Content summary: Measuring RSS feeds; RadioTail’s Ripple out of beta; what it takes to be in PR; catching up: Music Ally event, London conference, Neville and Dan York meet up; Edelman introduces the StoryMaker social media press release; Philip Rosedale of Linden Lab on the economic possibilities of virtual worlds; Fleishmann Hillard on French attitudes towards blogs; FT reports on substantial shifts in attitudes towards financial reporting; CIPD survey on ‘passion for work’ in the UK; Dan York reports; listeners’…











