Archive | April, 2008

RIM developing software for the Apple iPhone

Posted on 30 April 2008

If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!RIM, the company behind the popular BlackBerry, seems to be in the process to build a brand new team to develop software for the Apple iPhone. Right now this should be just a rumor, but trusted sources says that a [...]

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Bad Management?

Posted on 29 April 2008

Andy Abramson wrote an interesting piece today about the just announced Jajah-Yahoo deal. He wrote some points I was thinking about while writing my post on the deal this morning. Yahoo bought Dialpad a couple of years ago and let Jeff Bonforte, man behind Yahoo Messenger and former SIPPhone developer, leave the company very easily, part of [...]

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Yahoo! Messenger gets Jajah

Posted on 29 April 2008

Frederik Hermann, global marketing director at Jajah, sent me an email today informing that Yahoo! just selected Jajah to offer voice services to their over 97 millions Yahoo! messenger users. Pc to Phone and Phone to PC services (”PhoneIn” and “Phone Out”) will leverage Jajah’s network infrastructure as well as customer care and payment processes. It [...]

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Security flaw on iSkoot: discovered and solved over the weekend

Posted on 28 April 2008

The blogsphere jumps in again when it comes to help companies to do a better job with their products. Here is today’s story. Dameon aka “hacker” Phoneboy discovered that iSkoot, the popular mobile client for Skype, was using port 80 and http to send, without any encryption, users’ private Skype data, including userid and password. After a [...]

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Spending a bit of life offline

Posted on 26 April 2008

A long weekend here in Italy, because the 25th of April is national vacation. This, plus almost 30 degrees celsius here in Sardinia, means more time to spend outside with my wife and playing with my son. I quickly read a couple of interesting news on my newsreader..very quickly.. but I’m procrastinating. I’ll take care of [...]

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Jeff resigns from Pulvermedia

Posted on 24 April 2008

Jeff Pulver announces today that he just resigned from Pulvermedia. For me it’s really a sad news since Jeff Pulver gives the name to Pulvermedia and without him, to me, there is no Pulvermedia. Jeff is not currently available to answer questions about this move, but I hope everything will become clearer in the following [...]

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iPhone in Italy by TIM

Posted on 22 April 2008

According to trusted sources, TIM should have signed an agreement with Apple on March 31st in Cupertino. The main points of the agreement should be the following: 3G iPhone only no revenue sharing between TIM and Apple in regards of contracts signed by Tim exclusive with Tim for 6 months only #2 is a good point and it would have [...]