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  • Share Google Docs with a quick drag and drop in Gmail

    Folks living in the browser will appreciate this quick-and-easy tidbit of a feature shown over at Digital Inspirations. You can now share a Google Doc simply with a drag-and-drop right in Gmail. First, you'll need the Google Doc gadget that we mentioned back in October so that your Docs will...
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  • Telcos Will See a More Activist Congress

    I'd better hightail it to Washington, because a reshuffling of Congressional Committee members is poised to herald more regulation for telecommunications firms on issues ranging from rural access to Net Neutrality. Yesterday Rep. Henry Waxman ascended to the head of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce -- which you may remember for its investigation into how web firms use consumer data -- and convened two hearings into online privacy. As the head of that committee, Waxman has considerable influence over its agenda. The Wall Street Journal speculates that Waxman will delegate many telecommunications issues to Rep. Ed Markey, of Massachusetts, who has already pushed for a Net Neutrality bill , and has a fondness for consumer issues. In the Upper House, Sen. Jay Rockefeller from West Virginia will likely be named the head of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Technology, and as the representative from a heavily rural state, is likely to push for access to broadband. He would replace Sen. Dan Inouye of Hawaii, who will chair the Appropriations Committee. Inouye had supported Net Neutrality rules, as well as the entrance of new bidders into the 700 MHz auction . Of course, if politicians are willing to float regulations on telecommunications, they're also likely to float more regulations in general -- some of which the pro-Net Neutrality crowd won't enjoy. Rockefeller wants to introduce legislation to make the FCC regulate television violence, while Markey has sent letters to the FCC expressing concern about the use of product placement in television shows.

  • Nokia launches Mobile Web Server 1.5 beta

    Nokia has just released Mobile Web Server 1.5 beta for Symbian S60 smartphones, an application that allows users to access (and manage) their phones via the WWW, from a desktop browser. Like many of Nokia’s applications and services, Mobile Web Server is offered free of any charge. Among the new things that the 1.5 beta version of [...]

  • Microsoft increases SkyDrive to 25GB of free cloud

    It's been interesting to watch Windows Live SkyDrive mature in terms of capacity. When Live Folders was revamped as SkyDrive last August, Microsoft was willing to dole out 500MB of online storage. February of this year brought expanded availability to 35 countries and upped the ante to 5GB. Now, Redmond...
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  • Area Codes Are Dead — Thank VoIP

    Over the years we have seen the gradual separation of phone numbers from geographical location. To date, Skype's SkypeIn service has been the best demonstration of this trend; even though I live and work just outside Toronto, Canada, I have a Palo Alto, Calif., SkypeIn number for historical family reasons, and I recently acquired a San Francisco number for Truphone. The same separation can apply to most VoIP-based voice services. Over the past couple of years Belgian-based Voxbone has also developed an international numbering service which offers its clients a "local" phone numbers in any of 5,000 cities in 45 countries. OnState has used Voxbone's "local" numbers as access points to its virtual call center service ; its clients' businesses can offer customer service and support centers with worldwide "local" access. However, it would be even more convenient for businesses selling into multiple countries if they could simply offer one universal number worldwide. Now, they can. Yesterday, three months after the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) made available the +883 "global" country code, Voxbone announced the launch of its country-agnostic iNum service . I first learned of Voxbone at last spring's eComm 2008 where Voxbone CEO Rod Ullens first mentioned the iNum concept. This announcement starts to realize his vision of enabling low cost conversations with worldwide access by taking advantage of the technology around IP-based communications: “iNum is a new kind of phone number for a new kind of world — a world with a new geography that’s about local presence and global relationships, not about distance or national borders,” said Rodrigue Ullens, CEO and co-founder of Voxbone. “We believe the new geography is defined by the markets, customers and vendors that businesses need to connect with most. We need ‘local’ communication with these people — whether calls originate on public-switched or VoIP networks...

  • Google launches web-based Gmail Voice and Chat

    I've been looking for a better web-based video chat service for a while. I'm not sure that Google's new offering is going to take the place of Skype for me, but at least it's another option out there. Rafe Needleman gave it a shot and felt that it used up...
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  • Opera Mini hits 4.2 beta

    Opera Mini - the free java-based little brother of Opera Mobile - has just hit version 4.2 beta. The biggest improvement so far seems to be the new back-end servers that should give a much more responsive service (Opera caches web pages on its own servers and re-renders them for speed) better YouTube support and Opera [...]

  • Live Mesh for Mobile: available on limited basis in U.S., U.K.

    The Windows Mobile 6.x client for Live Mesh followed right in the footsteps of the Mac client although it's not out for general consumption just yet. Only residents of the U.S. or U.K. can download it for their handheld at the moment. You'll want to catch the signup and download...
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  • Microsoft Live Mesh tech preview hits Mac OS X

    I got a tip off from the LiveSide folks earlier this week that we'd see it and they were spot on: the technical preview of Live Mesh for Mac is finally available. I've just pulled down the 6.8MB download and will have to kick the tires for a bit. My...
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  • Box.net client hits iPhone, offers remote file viewing

    Having storage in the cloud is great, but easy access to your data is the icing on the cake. Box.net is one of those online storage services we've mentioned before and WebWorkerDaily caught wind of an iPhone client app for the service. Of course, just being able to look at...
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  • Cloudy Microsoft forecasts partly Office

    Right alongside the many Azure and Windows 7 announcements out of PDC, Microsoft is making more of a move to the cloud with their Office suite. Specifically, the company will offer light, web-based versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote (shown above). The last app is worthy of note (no...
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  • Microsoft Office Is Coming To the Cloud

    Microsoft’s Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote will have a new home in the cloud, the company announced at the Microsoft Developers Conference in Los Angeles this morning, adding the Office suite to the cadre of software and services it has said it will provide as it develops its Windows Azure cloud-based platform. The browser-based [...]
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