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Tungle.Me 2.0 – Meeting Acceleration Through Participant Aggregation

by Jim Courtney on Tue, May 4, 2010 7:05 am

Over the past two years I have been occasionally reporting on Tungle, the meeting accelerator that facilitates scheduling meetings and conference calls. Tungle’s goals as a service are:

bring down barriers, such as different calendar programs, between companies and work teams
share availability (Busy/Free status only)
respect privacy and user control

In summary Tungle wants to be “the [...]

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Categories Communications News, Mobile Applications, Service Providers, Social Media, Web 2.0 Tools and Applications

How To Recall You Own @Skype – Take Heed, Twitterers!

by Jim Courtney on Wed, Apr 8, 2009 5:04 am

If you own a brand name as a TwitterID, take heed. Twitter will reveal your ownership details to the brand owner. Nerdgirl Stephanie Robesky, a former employee of a venture fund established by the founders of Skype, was shocked recently into realizing she still owned the @Skype TwitterID even though she had moved on [...]

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Categories Skype News, Social Media

TOM-Skype Breach: Answers to Phil’s Questions from 2006 SJ Post

by Jim Courtney on Tue, Oct 21, 2008 6:10 am

This is the third of four posts resulting from an interview with Nart Villeneuve, principle investigator of the Citizen Lab report “Breaching Trust”.
Two weeks ago Phil republished an April 2006 Skype Journal post with about sixteen questions related to the TOM-Skype security breach discovered by Nart. My interview provided answers to several of these questions [...]

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Categories Communications News, Service Providers, Skype News, Skype Operations, Skype Partner Solutions, Using Skype

TOM-Skype Breach: The Citizen Lab

by Jim Courtney on Thu, Oct 16, 2008 8:10 am

This is the second of four posts resulting from an interview with Nart Villeneuve, principle investigator of the Citizen Lab report “Breaching Trust”.
After discussing the report itself and some of the follow up activity, we went on to talk about The Citizen Lab, its mission and its activities. From their own website they are “focusing [...]

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Categories Communications News, Service Providers, Skype News, Skype Operations, Skype Partner Solutions, Using Skype

TOM-Skype Breach: Meeting the Primary Investigator

by Jim Courtney on Sun, Oct 12, 2008 9:10 pm

This is the first of four posts resulting from an interview with Nart Villeneuve, principle investigator of the Citizen Lab report “Breaching Trust”.
Last Tuesday afternoon I returned to a University of Toronto building I had last visited in its role as an engineering students’ residence in the mid-1960’s. Abandoned as a residence in the 1980’s, [...]

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Categories Communications News, Service Providers, Skype News, Skype Operations, Skype Partner Solutions, Using Skype