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Recording phone calls for podcasts or broadcast | Ask Jack

Darryl is working for a community radio station and needs to record telephone interviews. What's the best approach?Do you have any recommendations for equipment and programs to record telephone...

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China jails dissident Zhu Yufu over poem sent on Skype

Court in Hangzhou gives veteran activist seven-year prison sentence for inciting subversion of state powerA Chinese court has sentenced a veteran dissident to seven years in jail, his son said.Zhu Yufu...

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Cisco launches appeal against Microsoft's £5.4bn deal to buy Skype

Cisco asks European commission to ensure Skype's 700 million users are not locked into a Microsoft platformCisco has launched an appeal against Microsoft's $8.5bn (£5.4bn) acquisition of internet phone...

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Apps Rush: Skype, Opera Mini Next, Barbarian, iAlbums, CodeRunner, The Social...

What's new on the app stores on Tuesday 28 February 2012A selection of 15 apps for you today:Skype for Windows PhoneMicrosoft has released a "pre-release" beta version of Skype for Windows Phone,...

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Monitoring communications: shrivelling the domain of privacy | Editorial

To mandate that an automated inspector must jot down the fact of every exchange is to shrivel the domain of privacyTrust us. It's for your own safety. Besides, it's not all that different from what we...

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Instagram: a billion reasons to beware the latest dotcom bubble

What exactly has Facebook bought with its $1bn purchase of Instagram? Recent internet history suggests it may be a huge haul of overpriced pixels…So Facebook has bought Instagram, a company with a...

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How tiny Estonia stepped out of USSR's shadow to become an internet titan

The European country where Skype was born made a conscious decision to embrace the web after shaking off Soviet shacklesEesti keel | Estonian language versionIn 1995, four years after Estonia broke...

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Hacktivists in the frontline battle for the internet

Amid the power struggle between hacktivism and officialdom, Grateful Dead lyricist John Perry Barlow explains why he is working on a system to fund online activists hit by corporate blockades• Follow a...

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Army nurse who died during Skype chat with wife not shot, investigation finds

Captain Bruce Clark's wife had stated she saw a bullet hole behind her husband, but army found no signs of traumaMilitary investigators have sought to defuse a controversy swirling around the sudden...

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YouTube, Digg and Skype founders talk technology at LeWeb London

Chad Hurley, Kevin Rose and Niklas Zennström mull over the next big thingsBilled as "All-Star Entrepreneurs", Chad Hurley, Kevin Rose and Niklas Zennström shared the stage for a spot of technology...

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Don't believe the Skype: it may not be as private as you might think | Dan...

Skype has always refused to reveal its encryption methods and could now be giving police access to users' conversationsWhen Skype became popular just under a decade ago, I repeatedly asked the company...

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Europe's digital agenda chief earmarks €7bn for broadband expansion

Commissioner Neelie Kroes pushes for 'fully wired-up' continent abuzz with 4G and carpeted with fibre-optic cablingIn the 1980s Neelie Kroes was considered Holland's answer to Margaret Thatcher. Three...

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Skype disables password reset to block account hijack by email

Technique developed by Russian hackers meant accounts could be taken over simply if user's email address was knownSkype has disabled its password reset capability after hackers discovered a serious...

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Skype warned in August of email flaws

Russian coder has dated chat transcript showing he warned accounts could be set up without email verificationSkype was warned in August by a Russian programmer about a vulnerability closely linked to...

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The new age of the internet: why London needs to step up

London's startup talent has a real shot at building one of the world's top five internet hubs.My career in the internet industry began in London in 1993 and if you had told me then that the UK would...

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BSkyB claim forces Livescribe to pull Sky Wi-Fi Smartpen

Broadcaster sues Livescribe and Dixons Retail, which stocked the product, over alleged trademark infringement of its Sky brandThe digital pen maker Livescribe has been forced to pull its flagship Sky...

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Technology is a double-edged sword

When it comes to technological innovation and its effects on our lives and culture, both the luddites and the evangelists have a pointOver at the New Statesman, Steven Poole is Mad as Hell. Like Howard...

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Windows Messenger closes in March

Microsoft instant messaging tool to shut down after 14 years, with users directed to Skype, acquired by Microsoft for £5.2bn2013 will mark the end of an era for social media fans as Microsoft finally...

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Guardian Viral Video Chart: Toy Story, Lance Armstrong and dogs on Skype

A bear washes up at an ad shoot, Samuel L Jackson croons Taylor Swift, a bird sings dubstep, and a trombonist on skiisWe've gone a bit animal crackers this week with an assortment of cute pets and even...

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Skype talks mobile: 'People are communicating constantly now'

But Neil Stevens says that some mobile operators have yet to realise that his company isn't an enemyWhen Neil Stevens joined Skype four years ago, the company had just passed the 100m monthly unique...

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