Ken Garen, CPA, Co-Founder and President, UBCC

Skype Over 3G Comes to the iPhone. It's Not All Good News. * By John C Abell Email Author * May 29, 2010 8:56 pm Skype on Saturday released an upgrade to its iPhone app that allows calls to be made and received under AT&T's 3G network, but there's a catch - they won't be free for very long, even for Skype-to-Skype calls or for people who have all-you-can-eat calling plans with the internet telephony company. No specific pricing or even timeline was announced, but the release notes of version 2.0.0 (to the right) say this feature will be free only "until at least the end of August 2010, after which there will be a small monthly fee." All of this became possible only after Apple changed its iPhone SDK in anticipation of the iPad. Skype pronouced on Feb 3 that 3G calling would happen "soon." But the additional cost was not trumpeted and does come as a surprise, though perhaps not a terribly big one given the revenue possibilities and the ad...

The game changing transformation of how TV is delivered and even what it is, is now taking shape. As usual content is King and where the money is. I recommend this article: http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Search-Engines/Google-TV-Coming-to-Make-Your-TV-a-Larger-Computer-815990/

This will further encourage use of Firefox or Chrome. I recommend this article: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9172578/Windows_XP_No_IE9_for_you?source=CTWNLE_nlt_dailyam_2010-03-18

This looks like the start of the long awaited Star Trek "universal translator". Someone has finally started down a promising path to ease the translation problem. I recommend this article: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2361433,00.asp