Verizon Added Skype

In a huge move, Verizon announced that it was adding Skype available to its 90 million wireless user.  Those with smartphones and the right data plan can now make unlimited calls to hundreds of millions of Skype user worldwide, beginning next month (March).

These calls will go over Verizon’s network, not using cellphone plan minutes.  Minutes would be deducted to use Skype to call regular phone numbers in the US.

What is a tablet?

What exactly a tablet?

Some say a computer just needs a touch-sensitive screen to be a tablet. Others say a person should be able to write on it with a pen. Still others say it’s screen size that’s important — tablets must fit somewhere between phones and laptops. For some, it’s partly the keyboard — a tablet should have one of those.

Break off the keyboard, leaving only a touch-screen device, he said, and the gadget falls into another buzz-worthy category: the slate.

Screen of Death

Were you affected by the latest Microsoft update?  Miscrosoft announced yesterday that it is looking into its latest security updates.  For those affected, they are left with a black desktop and little else on their screen.

“The symptoms are very distinctive and troublesome,” Prevx said. “After logging on there is no desktop, task bar, system tray or sidebar. Instead you are left with a totally black screen and a single My Computer Explorer window.”

However, those far, Microsoft is saying that they cannot locate the problem nor replicate it.

A Microsoft representative said that the company continues to recommend that customers “test and deploy” the November security updates.

“Based on our investigation so far we can say that we’re not seeing this as an issue from our support organization,” the representative said. “The issues as described also do not match any known issues that have been documented in the security bulletins or (knowledge base) articles.”

So if you are amoung the few people affected by this update, please notify Microsoft.  We need to get to the bottom of this.