Workaround puts Skype on the iPhone; 3Com pins hopes on China’s low labor costs

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Jul 13, 20073 mins
 

Workaround puts Skype on the iPhone

A complex remote-control work around has achieved what every geek wants: running Skype on an iPhone.

3Com pins hopes on China’s low labor costs

Networking equipment vendor 3Com is counting on low labor costs in China to help the company earn better margins on its products and compete against rivals like Cisco, the company’s CEO said Wednesday.

HP’s India lab secures paper documents

HP has developed technology at its lab in Bangalore that secures paper documents against fraud, and integrates paper documents with electronic processes, by allowing paper to be used as a medium for data transfer.

Author expert Rand Morimoto on Microsoft SubnetMicrosoft Subnet

The best features of Exchange 2007, part two. See how the app helps protect data when a mobile device is lost or stolen. Plus: Win one of 15 free copies of Morimoto’s book, “Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Unleashed” Check out the details on

VeriSign CFO resigns, company restates earnings

VeriSign CFO Dana Evan resigned Tuesday, and the company has restated earnings from 2002 to 2005, declaring an additional $160.3 million in stock-option compensation, it said Thursday.

Gloves come off in antivirus dispute

The war of words between Russian antivirus vendor Kaspersky Lab and rival Rising Tech, has intensified after Kaspersky slapped a defamation lawsuit on the Chinese antivirus provider following its recent controversial comments.

Spam filter costs lawyers their day in court

The trouble at Franklin D. Azar & Associates PC began with pornographic spam. Last May the Aurora, Colo., law firm was being bombarded with offensive messages, and enough of it was seeping through the company’s spam filters that employees complained to management, and IT administrator Kevin Rea was told to do something.

NTT DoCoMo targets 300Mbps in Super 3G experiment

NTT DoCoMo has embarked on a month-long experiment of a Super 3G cellular system.

NetSuite makes its apps available via iPhone

NetSuite users can start accessing the company’s hosted midmarket applications suite via their iPhones as businesses start to investigate the possibilities of using the much-hyped Apple mobile device at work.

“Call my e-mail,” Yoomba says

Brand-new start-up Yoomba launches a free service that lets e-mail users place VoIP calls or start instant messaging sessions with any other e-mail address.

Podcast

IT spending grows – whoo-hoo!Jason and Keith discuss the Google-Postini purchase, IT spending more on networking gear (huzzah!) and try to design their own avatars for the Simpsons movie.

Blogs

Buzzblog: 3 swings bring 2 strikes and a home run … Whole Foods CEO/blogger is so full of baloney it’s coming out his alter ego’s ears … And, baseball the way it was played in 1967.

Lightning + iPod = press stupidity

Today at Cisco Subnetfree training to certified Cisco pros to learn Juniper’s Junos OS. What do you do with old Cisco gear? These guys used their old router for target practice. Cisco Galways boss talks development and kids’ education.

Juniper offers

Tyson Kopczynksi’s open letter to poorly written software”Up until now, I’ve been putting up with it,” he writes. But he’s not gonna take it anymore.Today on Layer 8 – if you are sick of the iPhone, this will help:

The Apple iPhone does everything else, what happens to it when you stick it in a blender? The folks at Willitblend.com find out.