Gadgetopia

Skype: Locked phones unfair: Skype s all up in the FCC s business this morning. Good for them. Next up, fix cell phone application pricing. Are cellphone companies using their sway over handset makers to unfairly limit consumers choices? Skype, a pioneer in PC-to-PC calling, thinks so, and it wants the Federal ...

New rules could rock wireless world: I could obviously not work for any wireless company since this just makes sense to me on its face. Coming soon could be a wireless broadband world in which consumers get to pick any smartphone or other device and load any software on it ...

FCC Endorses Built-In Copy Controls: Why don't I think this has a prayer of working? "Tuesday's vote orders makers of hardware that can receive digital television signals to build in recognition of broadcast "flags" that copy-protect content. When the flag-compliant device, such as a PC or DVD recorder, detects content ...

SIPphone - Call worldwide over your broadband Internet connection with any phone: This is a new IP telephony service started by Michael Roberston, the guy behind Lindows and MP3.com (he's not a magnet for controversy or anything...). SIPphone makes it possible for people to send and receive free calls worldwide. ...

FBI targets Net phoning: The government wants to start tapping Internet phone calls. "The new rules are necessary, because terrorists could otherwise frustrate legitimate wiretaps by placing phone calls over the Internet, warns a summary of a July 10 meeting with the FCC that the FBI prepared. 'Broadband networks may ...

I suppose that FCC blogging regulations require us to muse on Google Talk for a bit. For folks that have been using IM since ICQ was king (like me, and I'm betting most of you), the Google Talk client itself looks pretty poor. It's missing features that AIM and ICQ ...