iPhone with Skype can now call Skype TVs

I’m jealous. There is Skype for my Evo 4G but it doesn’t do video. Meanwhile, the iPhone continues to get the early releases of the leading-edge Skype versions. If you’ve got an iPhone, enjoy! Android users, you’ll just have to keep waiting

A small, but interesting, update to Skype‘s iPhone app got pushed out today. Version 3.0.1 builds on the video calling capability that was added back in December by adding support for a wider range of Skype clients and devices, including Skype for TV.

If the idea of making a video call from some far-flung corner of the world back to a family TV sounds appealing to you, you’ll need a TV that specifically supports Skype. A number of Panasonic and Samsung sets will do the job, while a compatible webcam is required too. A list of supported kit is here.

While video calling to your TV may

Hey Google: welcome to Evil Corporationism

Sad to see this but Google is following the inevitable path that hugely successful American companies get pulled into: that of the evil corporation. I’m not saying Google is evil. Quite the contrary. What I am saying is that the bigger a company gets, the bigger the target on its back becomes ripe for accusations from those that want “fairness”. I hope Google comes out of this better than Microsoft did.

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Google is under siege in Washington like never before — and it says an “anti-Google industrial complex” is to blame.

In an interview with POLITICO, a Google spokesman argued that a cabal of antitrust lawyers, lobbyists and public relations firms is conspiring against the Internet search giant. The mastermind? Google says it’s Microsoft.

Rock on! Guitar Hero is dead

I admit I was surprised in reading this news. I guess pressing buttons on cheap plastic guitars only appeals to so many people. My guess is that this industry really relied on continued music purchase and that probably fell flat. They should open this up and let anyone create their own guitar hero tracks and just charge for licensing the original music

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Courtesy of Activision

“Due to continued declines in the music genre, the company will disband Activision Publishing’s Guitar Hero business unit and discontinue development on its Guitar Hero game for 2011,” the company said in its most recent financial statement. “These decisions are based on the desire to focus on the greatest opportunities that the company currently has to create the world’s best interactive entertainment experiences.”

AT&T Getting Desperate: launches unlimited mobile-to-mobile calling

This is why free, open markets rule. When there is competition, price goes down and quality goes up. AT&T clearly is concerned about the mass iPhone exodus and this is the first of what I believe many continued improvements.

AT&T has dropped a major gift in to the laps of its customers today: unlimited free calling to any mobile number.

iPad 3 coming this fall. Leapfrogs iPad 2

No details yet, other than it will most likely have the “retina” high-resolution display

The following may sound a little crazy considering that the iPad 2 has not even been acknowledged or introduced by Apple yet. But from what we’re hearing, the next iteration of the iPad — let’s call it “iPad 3″ to keep it simple — may be coming along sooner than people realize.

Earlier today, HP held a big event in San Francisco to unveil their latest products based around the webOS software that they acquired when they bought Palm last year. One of these devices is a tablet, called TouchPad. The device looks like an iPad, but it has better

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