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Vyew Web Conferencing

If you work online and need a web conferencing tool, you may want to check out Vyew. View is a free web conferencing service that also lets you share your desktop.
Features of Vyew

Vyew lets you share your desktop. Remote file storage lets you share documents and other files. You can also take/listen to presentations.
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Cell Phone-Using Cheating Students To Be Caged

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 [...]

Free Googlephones?

Question. If someone gave away free cell phones in return for your time viewing ads every time you made a call, would you want one? Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt thinks people will, and believes that as the computing power of mobile handsets increases, people will spend more time on them. Therefore, it’ll be easier to [...]

Eqo: Now With Cell Phone Instant Messaging

Vancouver based EQO have just made a new version of their software for mobiles available, allowing anyone with a supported cell phone to send and receive instant messages. All the big hitters are supported including Skype, GoogleTalk, AIM, YIM, MSN Messenger, Jabber and ICQ. To get it running on your phone you only [...]

Google Talk Aims For More Users

A few months back, various industry reports indicated that the Google Talk IM and soft phone was near the bottom of the heap in terms of active users and downloads, both. Part of the reason for that might have been due to the fact that Google Talk (or GTalk, as some people call it) was [...]