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Skype makes group video calling free on Windows, Mac, and Xbox One; coming to all platforms ‘in the future’

Apr28
by on April 28, 2014 at 1:00 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Product Updates

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Skype today announced it is making group video calling (GVC) available free of charge on Windows desktop, OS X, and the Xbox One. At the same time, the company is also promising it will enable group video calling across all platforms at no cost “in the future.” We talked to Phillip Snalune, Skype’s General Manager of Consumer Product Marketing, to learn more, and he specifically listed apps for the following platforms: Windows modern (read: Metro app), Windows Phone, Android, and iOS. Unfortunately, he refused to share exact timing details. Snalune also wouldn’t disclose how much revenue the feature has generated…

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Google’s self-driving cars are getting better at navigating city roads

Apr28
by on April 28, 2014 at 12:40 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Google, Insider, Product Updates

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The utopian vision of self-driving cars quietly humming along our roads is nothing new, but much of the work tends to focus on testing a system’s ability to drive a car along a freeway, rather than more tricky busy city streets. However, Google has just published a blog post describing the work it has been doing on this very problem since August 2012. The company says that compared to the more open freeways, city roads have “hundreds of different objects moving according to different rules of the road in a small area” and as such pose a far greater challenge for…

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9 tech companies join London Stock Exchange’s new two-year ELITE support program

Apr28
by on April 28, 2014 at 11:39 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, UK

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The London Stock Exchange has today announced that nine technology companies are among the first 19 businesses to join its 24 month ‘ELITE’ support and training program. The nine tech companies joining the ELITE program, which launched today, are Amplience, Graze, Intrinsic, Medic Animal, Money Dashboard, Naked Wines, Post Code Anywhere, Test Plant and Unruly Media. The scheme will provide each of these with “business support tools”, access to group advisors and investors, and education services provided by Imperial College Business School. The program also has the backing of trade bodies like the CBI and Tech City, among others. “Small and medium sized businesses are the lifeblood…

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Microsoft releases its first Nokia ad with the tagline ‘Not Like Everybody Else’

Apr28
by on April 28, 2014 at 10:50 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Gadgets

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Nokia’s devices and services unit is now owned by Microsoft and to celebrate the company has released a new advert on YouTube. Sporting the tagline ‘Not Like Everybody Else’, it uses a track by English rock band The Kinks to highlight Nokia’s expertise in industrial design. In a street drained of color, one brightly dressed pedestrian grabs his yellow Lumia 1020, adorns a matching pair of headphones and strolls down the road – causing passersby to be paralyzed by sheer shock and awe. It’s a slick advert that embraces the position of the Windows Phone platform. Microsoft’s mobile OS is…

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Offline over the weekend? Read all the tech news you missed right here

Apr28
by on April 28, 2014 at 10:01 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Roundups

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Staying in touch with the fast moving world of technology can be a little harder than usual at weekends, but thankfully you have friends like us. So, if you were out having fun (or painting the spare room) rather than glued to your screen, here’s a handy little list of some of the things you missed from the last two days. Make a coffee, leave your inbox unattended for just a few minutes longer and play catch up on everything you missed now. News from The Next Web over the weekend Facebook Suffering ‘No Content in This Feed’ Error Twitter…

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