Source: snapvoip.blogspot.com

If you have Gmail and a mobile device like iPhone (I almost typed gPhone ;)) here is a video explaining how to setup your iPhone to get Gmail via IMAP.

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The Wall Street Journal carried an article about Google Powered Phone, (Google Phone, Gphone) today. But the Journal is basically saying what we have been saying for some time now, first article here, and then the update here, both with photos that were mocked up Google phone. Even the first article got DUGG. Of course Google’s support of open Broadband, Open access to 700MHz spectrum may have had something to do with Google Phone.

The article cites unnamed sources as saying Google has been talking to Taiwan’s HTC and South Korea’s LG Electronics about making phones that will run the Google mobile OS.
But I am yet to find a real Gphone photo.
Google might select T-Mobile, supposedly the most consumer-friendly of the major U.S. cellular carriers, as the Google phone’s wireless operator of choice. The Google based phones are expected to wrap together several Google applications like its search engine, Google Maps, YouTube and Gmail, that are already available on some mobile devices. The most radical element of the plan, though, is Google’s push to make the phones’ software "open" right down to the operating system, say Linux!, the layer that controls applications and interacts with the hardware. That means independent software developers would get access to the tools they need to build additional phone features.
WSJ Article

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Although in the back channels of news and talks about communications, Google talk has gone through many a changes and challenges. Two of those were integration with GMail and Orkut, both of which I use extensively.
These integrations provided unique scalability challenges to Google Talk team and had to handle a sudden increase in very large number of users. But they have fared very well and one of the Engineers, Reza Behforooz, has done a presentation at the Google Scalability Conference
a while ago. But the lessons learned might help any project that will require to scale to large number of users in a very short time.
Following is a video at Google Video.

Google Talkabout: Lessons in Building Scalable Systems

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Grand Central, which I am have my comfort number subscription on, has been aquired by Google. May be it will be Google Central, mmm naagh. It is just to small and the amount paid is too to be called Google Central.
I think it will be a part of GMAIL and Googletalk (I typed once, gooletalk and I continue to have hits based on that!) it suites the purpose well. According to the Google Blog article (the link below) ,
While Google is moving their technology over to Google’s network, a limited number of invitations will be available to register for a GrandCentral beta account. If you have a U.S. telephone number, you can sign up for an invitation at www.grandcentral.com. Current GrandCentral customers will continue to have uninterrupted access to the service. Wow, lucky me! oh US.
Official Google Blog: All aboard

Source: voipcentral.org

Skype has announced the launch of its 3.2 beta version for the Windows users. The striking feature of the latest version is inclusion of Skype-PayPal system, which we have talked of last week.

With Skype 3.2, the users can send money to the fellow Skype users through PayPal besides enjoying VoIP call and chat.

Other features of Skype 3.2 include importing contact and video snapshot service.

The Skype users can import their contacts from more sources, such as MSN Hotmail, Gmail and Yahoo! Mail. It means easy way to finding friends for Skype calls and also a way to further popularize Skype service. The video snapshot what we can say video-calling service allows user to instantly capture photos of themselves.

Source: voipcentral.org

Gone are the days when spamming was considered as security threat to social networking sites. Now, phishing and Web 2.0 attacks are on rise.

Once in my write-ups here, I argued how cheap VoIP calls widen the scope for data-thieving frauds. The number of phishing cases is increasing day by day. As per the latest count, one in every 459.8 emails (0.22 per cent) is now a phishing attack.

According to Web security firm MessageLabs, Gmail, MySpace and VoIP services such as Skype are most favored targets for security attacks. In its recent report, the security firm claims that security threat levels have remained constant overall, but attackers are turning away from email inboxes and towards social networking sites and other Web 2.0 phenomena.

The MessageLabs Intelligence Report explains,

July was a month of victimization for high profile and popular sites and services, with MySpace, AOLs AIM and Gmail all being used for attacks.

The report says that traditional email spam reduced by 2.1 percent from June to July. However, the report explains there is an increase in phishing attacks in which users lose their personal data. The scammers are targeting new platforms such as VoIP. MessageLabs says a growing number of distortion VoIP calls implore credit card details.

Israel is the most spammed country with 77.3 percent of junk email of all email, the report says. In case of India, one in every 11.1 emails contains a virus.

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