Apple Is About to Own Your Face
My mom totally wants one of these. My mom doesn’t know smartphones, but she wants Facetime. The same woman who used a Motorola RAZR for most of the last decade now wants to drop – or, more precisely,...
View ArticleApple To Reignite The iPod Fire With Hot New Models This Week? Yep.
Apple has an event on the books for this coming Wednesday and it’s widely expected that Steve-O will announce new iDevices, specifically an iOS-version of the Apple TV and new iPods. Most of the...
View ArticleiPod Touch Has a Vibrating Motor For Facetime Calls
This just in: the new iPod Touch with front-facing camera (aka the iPhone Lite) has a built-in vibrating motor for notifications, including silent call notifications. Why is this important? Well,...
View ArticleApple Adds Facetime to Macs [Update: Official]
Apple is busy running through all the new bells and whistles of iLife. It’s actually quite boring. But if you look close when the demo machine shows its dock, there’s a Facetime icon present, which...
View ArticleDownload The OS X Facetime Beta Right Now
Apple took just a few quick minutes during its Back To The Mac event today to announce Facetime on OS X. The release seems only natural as most Macs have had an integrated web camera for years and...
View ArticleHands-on With Facetime for OS X
http://player.ooyala.com/player.swf?embedCode=M4YnNyMTpSL_Pr4Ncg1PZoRl0Q5Maefh&version=2 This is clearly a beta product. It’s very non-intuitive and the contacts system is ridiculous. Regardless,...
View ArticleWhy FaceTime And Not iChat?
Is anyone else curious as to why Apple decided to make an entirely new FaceTime app instead of adding support to iChat? Lets look at why Apple could have done this. So far, FaceTime for Mac isn’t even...
View ArticleTango Takes Face-To-Face Video Calling Beyond The iPhone With 8 Million...
One of the best built-in features of the iPhone 4 is FaceTime, the video calling feature that lets you see who you are talking to by using the cameras on both phones. But it only works over WiFi and...
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Apple Now Owns FaceTime.com (But Still Doesn't Own iPad.com)
When Apple first announced its video calling application FaceTime on June 7, 2010 at the WWDC event, in conjunction with the iPhone 4, it quickly became apparent that there was a potential trademark...
View ArticleStrangers in Paradise
My weekends are getting stranger. Part of it has to do with postponing stuff throughout the work week, a concept that is under serious pressure these days. The iPad has obliterated the boundaries...
View ArticleFlash in the Pan
The news from NBC/Universal/Comcast is that the cable giant has finally made deals with both ABC and Fox to carry selected shows on their on-demand service. This is big news for the iPad set, because...
View ArticleGillmor Gang 7.2.11 (TCTV)
The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, John Borthwick, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor — joined the Circle Game as channelled by Joni Mitchell and Tom Rush. Google + seems to be a hit, which means it is...
View ArticleGillmor Gang 7.09.11 (TCTV)
The Gillmor Gang — Michael Arrington, Dan Farber, Robert Scoble, and Steve Gillmor — enjoyed @scobleizer’s FaceTime tour of Florida’s abandoned Kennedy Space Center in the aftermath of the last...
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New iOS 6 Beta Hints That AT&T May Charge For FaceTime Over 3G
When Apple announced at WWDC that FaceTime would (officially) work over cellular data networks, the company deftly avoided offering up much in the way of details. Now that iOS 6 beta 3 has been...
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Will AT&T Charge For 3G FaceTime? CEO Randall Stephenson Says It's ‘Too...
AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson took the stage this afternoon at the Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference in Aspen, where he was asked about a recent report in 9toMac that AT&T might charge customers...
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AT&T Defends FaceTime Over 3G Decision, Says It Isn't Violating Net Neutrality
AT&T ruffled more than a few feathers last week when it announced that only customers on the carrier’s new Mobile Share plans would be able to use iOS 6′s FaceTime over 3G feature. Almost...
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AT&T On Notice: Carrier To Face Net Neutrality Complaint Over FaceTime
AT&T announced early on that users wouldn’t be able to use FaceTime over cellular connections on its network, for subscribers who aren’t on the carrier’s Mobile Share Plans. The decision was...
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AT&T Expands FaceTime Support To Those With Tiered Data Plans & LTE-Capable...
Last month, open Internet advocacy groups threatened to file complaint against AT&T with the Federal Communications Commission due to AT&T’s decision to limit the use of Apple’s FaceTime video...
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AT&T Reportedly Extending FaceTime Over Cellular To Some Users On...
AT&T definitely didn’t win any fans with its initial reaction to Apple’s decision to open up FaceTime video chat services to cellular networks. Originally, the carrier was going to limit FaceTime...
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AT&T Now Offers FaceTime Over Cellular For Any Customer With A Tiered Data Plan
AT&T announced on its consumer blog today that it will finally allow FaceTime over cellular available to all customers on a tiered data plan, after previously offering it first only to those with a...
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