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Want brilliantly clear video calls? SightSpeed 5.0, the part peer-to-peer, part server-client communications application, can provide them. Just meld it with your broadband connection and any of dozens of webcams on the market, call another SightSpeed user, and you’ll soon be making cross-country family video conference calls part of your daily routine.
SightSpeed 5.0 review by PC Magazine
A free client is available. Rates are reasonable.technorati tags:sightspeed
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As a result of a Microsoft-Real anti-trust lawsuit, Real won the right to incorporate Windows media formats into its software. As a result, Real’s RealPlayer and its open-source counterpart, Helix, will soon be able to play the Windows media formats.Novell, in turn, will distribute the upgraded RealPlayer and Helix, as part of the GNOME Banshee music player in its SLED (SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop) distribution. The Helix Banshee player adds the Helix DNA client universal media framework to the GNOME-based Banshee open-source music player. This music player will also have the power to burn MP3 files to CDs.
RealNetworks Brings Windows Media to Linux
technorati tags:SLED, RealPlayer, Helix, Novell
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Social networking site Facebook opened up an application programming interface (API) today in a move that’s aimed to set it apart drastically from the far more hostile ecosystem of market leader MySpace.
Techcrunch » Blog Archive » Facebook requests developer friends with new API
Look, another API. This one is interesting if law students are using Facebook…
technorati tags:facebook, web_services, web_api
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The wildly successful Yahoo! Answers is moving to take its global community of user shared knowledge to the next level with today’s release of an API for outside developers interested in accessing the huge Yahoo! Answers site. The company says there are now 30 million plus answers in the system, from amusing ones to useful ones. Answers has also got an intensely loyal userbase.
Techcrunch » Blog Archive » Yahoo! Answers launches API
Looks like APIs are the thing today. You’ll need a developer key and are limited to 5,000 queries per IP per day.
technorati tags:Yahoo_Answers, web_services, web_API
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Direct from the source. You can find out everything you need to know at the recall website.Dell announced a recall today of lithium-ion batteries sold in many of our notebook computers over the past two years. You may have seen the recent New York Times story or have seen other details in the blogosphere. As the leader of the mobile business for Dell, I wanted to share my thoughts on this recall.
technorati tags:dell, laptop, battery
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