Talking Skype in Arizona!

This week, we’re featuring the Tucson Mac User Group, a great group that reviews Mac products and gives presentations on how to use your Mac even more! Check them out on their website.
Thank you Curt for this wonderful review!
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“VoIP services such as Skype, MSN, AOL and YahooMessenger provide good, low cost voice communication over the [...]

Skype in the classroom!

We love to hear about how Skype helps connect people. One of the stories that was relayed us and that we would like to share is one of Skype in the classroom.
This great teacher posted a completely hands-on, practical how-to use Skype in the classroom
Our take on it: this is an awesome idea. [...]

It’s a Network World!

We’re excited to share this great post in Network World which was published yesterday . The FR-33.2 has always been the top seller in Skype hardware, but it’s always good to hear feedback from new users!
Great review also appeared yesterday for our Speakerphone for iChat, which made Keith Shaw’s “Rock and Roll Fantasy” List!

Logitech Acquires SightSpeed

Logitech International, the Swiss manufacturer of PC peripherals, announced the acquisition of SIP-based video communications company SightSpeed for around $30 million Tuesday. The deal is expected to close in early November, following completion of standard closing procedures and conditions.
In a release, Logitech stated SightSpeed’s video technology and research and development team would allow the manufacturer [...]

RadioShack Launches High-Tech Trade-In Program

The electronics retailer will offer store credit in exchange for used laptops, cameras, phones, and other technology gear.
By W. David Gardner
InformationWeek
October 28, 2008 02:15 PM

RadioShack (NYSE: RSH) announced a trade-in policy for used electronics and computer gear whereby consumers can get credit for their used [...]

HP Mini are ready to Battle Asus’s EEpc

Hewlett-Packard has decided to get serious about their netbook operation after its brief experiment with the Mini-Note 2133 netbook. Sporting a C7 processor from Via, HP claimed that the product was strictly targeted to “K through 12 students and some business travelers.” Apparently, the sales of the 2133 exceeded expectations, and has led to [...]

TV Pricing Promos To Drive Holiday Sales

By Greg Tarr — TWICE, 10/27/2008
New York — The stock market and banking industry may be on a roller coaster headed for a crash of 1929 proportions, but the flat-panel television market appears to be entering the holiday season in relatively good shape, vendors and analysts told TWICE.
Vendors noted that TV sales have softened somewhat [...]

IPEVO’s Joins Apple on the No on 8 campaign

No on Prop 8
October 24, 2008
Apple is publicly opposing Proposition 8 and making a donation of $100,000 to the No on 8 campaign. Apple was among the first California companies to offer equal rights and benefits to our employees’ same-sex partners, and we strongly believe that a person’s fundamental rights — including the right to [...]

CE products show growth despite slight dip in retail sales

Retail consumer-electronics sales fell only a slighter amount last month than a year earlier, according to 
The NPD Group, which said flat-panel TVs, D-SLR cameras and notebook computers enjoyed solid growth in September.
NPD Group said that the 2% drop in sales was an encouraging sign to the CE industry and that high-ticket items were continuing to [...]

Google’s Android Market Economics 101

 
Google will hand over 70 percent of revenues to developers when its Android Market virtual storefront begins offering premium mobile applications in the first quarter of 2009. Equally noteworthy, the web services giant will allot the remaining 30 percent to operators and billing settlement fees, taking no cut for itself. Writing on the Android Developers [...]