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Its only a few days until the final issue of PC Zone magazine hits the shops. This, its fair to say, is a shame. Over the years, PC Zone has included content from lots of brilliant writers most famously Charlie Brooker, but also legendary videogame journos Duncan McDonald, David McCandless, Paul Mr Biffo Rose, Stu Campbell, Jon Blyth, Culky and many more.

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Cisco reportedly is considering buying Skype before the VOIP and video conferencing vendor enters into its planned IPO later this year. It would continue Ciscos push into video. – Skype officials are in planning stages for their expected IPO, which
they announced Aug. 9. But reports are circulating that Cisco Systems
may derail those plans by buying the VOIP vendor.
IT blog TechCrunch
reported that according to one of our more reliable sources, Cisco
officials have mad… Read the rest of this entry »

Legacy phone systems are no longer cutting it, especially as more people work remotely and require mobile capabilities to collaborate effectively. As a result, an increasing number of enterprises are transitioning toward IP-based unified communications. But if the network migration isn’t managed properly, unified communications can overwhelm networks and affect application performance. Here, Knowledge Center contributor Ed Basart explains how to transition to IP-based unified communications without overtaxing your IT department or budget. – Legacy phone systems are no longer offering the modern capabilities that drive business value, especially as more people are working remotely and requiring mobile features to collaborate and be productive. On top of that, IT teams are short on staff and budget. Add increasing layers of IT complexity… Read the rest of this entry »

Futuramas back on Comedy Central in the USA, and its as good as it ever was. Hurrah!

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Google’s Gmail calling threatens Skype because it copies its service for initiating and receiving free or cheap calls over IP. Gmail and Skype offer tradeoffs and analysts and industry experts have different takes on how these services match up. – When Google
launched its Gmail calling service August 25, the top question was how the VOIP
service would impact Skype.
Gmail calling threatens Skype because it copies its
service for initiating and receiving free or cheap calls over IP. However, Gmail
and Skype offer tradeoffs and analysts and… Read the rest of this entry »

Google’s new Gmail phone-calling service racked up 1 million calls from users in its first 24 hours of release. Gmail calling potentially challenges Skype and Facebook. – Skype and Facebook could have a substantial new competitor
on their hands, if Googles new Gmail phone-calling service keeps attracting a
substantial number of users.
Over 1,000,000 calls placed from Gmail in just 24 hours!
Thanks to everyone using this new feature, read an Aug. 27 note on… Read the rest of this entry »

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Google unveiled a Gmail phone-calling application Aug. 25, but is mum on when the service will expand offshore. Skype, Facebook and others are growing their international user base. – Google may have generated a lot of publicity with its Aug. 25 announcement of an application that makes phone calls through Gmail, but the company is staying mum about any international expansion of the upcoming U.S.-centric service.
We dont have anything to announce about international roll-out t… Read the rest of this entry »

Google’s new Gmail phone-calling service presents a challenge to Skype, as well as Gmail’s e-mail competitors. Google has been making aggressive plays in the VOIP market. – Google is rolling out a service that makes phone calls through Gmail. Calls
to the United States
and Canada will
be free through at least January 2011, with international calls ranging
between 2 cents and nearly $5 a minute. That presents a challenge not only
to Google’s e-mail competitors, b… Read the rest of this entry »

Scanfest 2010 continues with by far the most interesting find from our archive yet. Yes, even more interesting than the FA Cup Final programmes from 1986 and 1989. First published in 1978, and costing a princely sum of 1.25, this was possibly our favourite book when we were five years old. It can only be THE MULTI-COLOURED SWAP SHOP BOOK (by Rosemary Gill and Crispin Evans). As, er, youll probably have already ascertained from the title up there.

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