It has been almost three months since Microsoft shelled out a whopping $8.5 billion on Skype, and at that cost, it has always been seen as inevitable that Skype would be ported into Microsoft's product range as quickly as possible.
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After barely seeing the light of day on Google+ a couple of weeks ago before being hauled off, the hacktivist group who go by the name Anonymous stated its intention to come up with it's own social networking site with a more open-source, anonymous platform. Promising to deviate from the censorship which affects the Facebookers and Googlers of this world, it was said to be aimed at those who “simply want a better internet”.
A leaked photo over at 9to5mac show what appears to be a guy holding an iPhone, only it doesn't look to be any of the models that have been released by Apple thus far. The image was sent in by a tipster who believes it was the iPhone 5, but the pictures he managed to capture "just didn't do it justice".
Since its inception some 8 years ago, Skype has established itself as the market leader in online telecommunications with in excess of two thirds of a billion users worldwide. The company has has seen many significant changes during the course of its life, particularly in the last 12 months in which it has sought integration with the main communication mediums of today such as Facebook.
There has been much speculation during the course of the year that Apple would implement the facial recognition technology, which it dropped a lot of cash to acquire in the fall of last year from Swedish algorithm specialist Polar Rose, to the eventual fifth iPhone.
How To Make Airplay Work With Just About Any App On iPhone, iPad, iPod touch [No Jailbreak Required]
Not every app available in the broad range of iOS apps is designed to be fully AirPlay compliant, however as with most limitations beset upon our digital devices, there is usually someone else on hand with a tweak or a workaround in order to circumvent the problem. In this case, Lifehacker has divulged a few very simple steps you can take in order to force the audio to be streamed though to your Apple TV or AirPlay enabled speakers, and it does not require any jailbreak, although it doesn't work with video.
According to inside information gathered by MacRumors, it appears that Apple is currently in the late testing stages of a 15" ultra-thin Mac notebook. After quietly axing it's 13" plastic MacBook just last week in favor of the 11.6" MacBook Air as it's basic, entry-level portable Mac, it seems as though Jobs and Co. are are already looking to fill in the void left by its departure.
Aside from iOS 5, nobody knows exactly what will feature on the next iPhone installment, except Apple of course. Speculation has been rife, with many conflicting suggestions of what is and what isn't going to feature. MobileFun has released some supposed iPhone 5 schematic diagrams which are said to outline key design properties of the eagerly awaited device.
Online movie streaming service Netflix today confirmed that Facebook integration is on the horizon, and will most likely be implemented within the next three months. However, the company has rather cautiously not decided to launch Stateside just yet, due to the legalities surrounding video sharing and will only launch in Canada and Latin America.
It's been little over a week since Apple scrambled to release iOS 4.3.4 to plug the easily jailbreakable 4.3.3, and already another update has surfaced which addresses "certificate validation" vulnerabilities, and unfortunately, just like iOS 4.3.4, those of you that own an iPad 2 on iOS 4.3.5 can no longer jailbreak, not even tethered like other devices.
