Uproar Archive

  • PSA: iPhone 4’s FaceTime won’t use your voice minutes

    PSA: iPhone 4’s FaceTime won’t use your voice minutes

    Posted on June 21, 2010 | No Comments
    We can't even imagine the uproar that AT&T and Apple would be dealing with if FaceTime calls -- which travel over WiFi alone -- siphoned minutes out of your cell plan's voice bucket, but fortunately, that's a doomsday scenario we'll never need to worry about because it's now been confirmed that they're totally minute-free. What's more, when you start by initiating a voice call, it ends as soon as you switch from voice to FaceTime -- so you won't be charged for the portion of the call that's conducted over FaceTime in that case, either. Of course, as long as FaceTime is an iPhone 4 exclusive, it's going to be pretty limited in scope -- but once other vendors start getting in on the open standard (if "standard" is an appropriate term here) it'll get a lot juicier, we suspect.

    PSA: iPhone 4's FaceTime won't use your voice minutes originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Mon, 21 Jun 2010 18:20:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Why are people falling victim to Facebook scams?

    Why are people falling victim to Facebook scams?

    Posted on December 14, 2009 | No Comments
    The beauty of essentially quitting social networking, as I have, is that I don't have to worry about all of the associated nonsense. “Facebook's new privacy settings cause uproar.” Really? Not if you quit the site it doesn't. “Malicious programs causing social network malaise.” Again, not an issue if you're not all-consumed with tweeting every 10 seconds about what you're eating for breakfast.

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  • Elder Scrolls franchise not dead yet

    Elder Scrolls franchise not dead yet

    Posted on August 18, 2009 | 1 Comment
    Last week at QuakeCon, Bethesda Software employee Todd Howard made a statement that was misquoted, and has started quite the uproar. When asked if there were going to be any new Elder Scrolls games, he responded that people shouldn't look for any "in the near future". This led people to believe that there weren't going to be any new games at all.

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  • Google Wave unveiled, new live chat medium for browsers, iPhone and Android

    Google Wave unveiled, new live chat medium for browsers, iPhone and Android

    Posted on May 28, 2009 | No Comments
    Google's big reveal at I/O? Meet Wave, the Next Big Thing from the Lars and Yen Rasmussen, makers of Google Maps. It's a very early build, meaning we won't see it anytime soon, but here's the gist: a "wave" is a chat session that enables you to send messages live, with each word being transmitted live -- no more "person X is typing" messages (don't worry, that can be deactivated momentarily / permanently with a "draft" button). You can also add others to the wave, drag and drop images for instant transfers, and share documents for on-the-fly edits (with all the participants working simultaneously, mind you), and get this... it does real time translation. So hot, and the crowd is in an uproar over this. The "waves" can be played back to see the conversation evolve / documents edited dynamically. We just got confirmation that it'll be coming to Android and iPhone, also, but they have yet to get the mobile platform to do the live updating. As they keep telling us, this HTML5-based platform is still in a very early stage, but all attendees will be getting an invite to a sandbox build later today. It's an open protocol, so expect other devs to add their own toys to the mix. Hit up the gallery for more pics.

    Gallery: Google Wave unveiled, new live chat medium for browsers, iPhone and Android

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    Google Wave unveiled, new live chat medium for browsers, iPhone and Android originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 28 May 2009 13:14:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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