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Apple scrambles to fix FaceTime bug

Jan 29, 2019
A bug in Apple’s FaceTime, news of which filled social media channels and tech news sites this week, could have allowed a caller to listen to the audio from an iPhone she or he is calling, even before the person at the other end of the line had accepted or rejected the call. Apple is […]
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Apple to release Lion this week?

Jul 11, 2011
So goes the rumor. It's not Apple Computer opening up actual cages to reveal real lions, at least not yet, it's the release of the new operating s...

Facetime for Mac goes public

Feb 24, 2011
The Mac based version of the iPhone's video phone call app has been in testing for a while but it just went live. Facetime for Mac is available as...

iPad 2 to ship in February

Dec 7, 2010
This according to the Chinese news site Digi Times, which cites sources at Foxconn. They say that Foxconn has been told to start shipping within...

Google Me doesn't exist

Nov 11, 2010
For months, a big play by Google in the social media sphere has been talked about. Supposedly they were cooking up something to compete against...

Face Time. Really?

Jun 8, 2010
I've been interested in the idea of video phones for a long time. It's thought of as this thing that only exists on The Jetsons and in the distant...