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Cheap Facebook phone designed to attract the masses

The INQ1 comes with built-in support for Facebook, Skype, Last.fm and Windows Live Messenger as well as a low price tag.

| News | Personal tech | 11/13/08 at 10:32 am |


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Skype says it was unaware of China message-logging

In a blog posting to the eBay subsidiary's corporate blog, Skype President Josh Silverman said his company had no idea that the Tom-Skype software, distributed to Skype users in China, was logging chat messages and storing them on a publicly accessible server.

| News | Government | Security | 10/02/08 at 7:20 pm |


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Skype messages being monitored in China, group says

Tom-Skype, a joint venture in China between eBay's Skype unit and Tom Online, has been known to operate a text filter on text chats, but a new report says that the data is stored insecurely and the text messages and records containing personal data can be easily accessed.

| News | Security | 10/02/08 at 9:17 am |


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BlackBerry a Security Threat? Only to Governments

The story "Tata Launches BlackBerry Service in India" said that the Indian government objected to launching BlackBerry service in that country. Why? The government wanted RIM, creator of BlackBerry, to provide access to all communications from BlackBerry devices to the Indian version of the FBI.

| Opinion | Security | Small business | 09/18/08 at 12:11 pm |


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