Skype now offers video telephony with its version 2.5 which is available for a free download. The software works with your PC and laptop and once you have attached a webcam you’re ready to see the person you’re talking to. The best part is that you can make Skype-to-Skype video phone calls for free from [...]

If you questioned it before, CNET’s article [via 21Talks] on how the FBI used a remotely- switched on cell phone microphone to listen to conversations “surrounding” a US gangster should make you think otherwise. And US District Judge Lewis Kaplan defended this use because of the broadness of the federal wiretapping law.
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You’ve seen the Skype VoIP phones, the Skype mouse phones, and the Skype keyboard phone combos - and possibly wondered when it would stop. Later this month, there’ll be computer motherboards with a Skype-enabled phone jack built right in. What that means is that your regular home phone can become a Skype phone. [IDG/ InfoWorld [...]

A Faraday Cage is any sort of enclosure that can block out radio frequency signals. It’s typically metal or wire-mesh based., and is the principle behind special sleeves now being used to protect RFID-enabled contactless credit cards and e-passports. It seems that Faraday Cage-enclosed rooms will now be used in the UK during some exams [...]

Virgin Mobile UK Drops Price On Lobster Smartphone
MS Mobiles has a picture of an unusual-looking smartphone known as the Lobster 700. The Lobster, which is capable of receiving mobile TV, is offered by Virgin Mobile UK as part of a pay-as-you-go package, whose price has been reduced from 199 GBP to 109 GBP. Purchasing the [...]