‘Tis the season for Apple fans around the world to line up (or wait for the doorbell to ring) and get their hands on a shrink-wrapped, boxed-up, shiny new iPhone. Of course the killer feature of this year’s iPhone 4S is undoubtedly the A.I. assistant, Siri. As Siri is described as Beta software, you […]

It’s official, folks: Microsoft’s acquisition of Skype is a done deal. The two companies can now forge ahead with whatever plans for dominating world communications they’ve hatched, though chances are good they were already working on them anyway. A note of apology goes out to the Italian VoIP company Messagenet, whose pleading that the EU re-examine […]