The company launched a free fresh movie calling service called Duo on Tuesday that’s not unlike Apple ( AAPL , Tech30) ‘s native movie calling app. But it comes with a few bells and whistles to help the app stand out.
The name Duo comes from Google’s desire to concentrate on one-to-one movie calling. …
by Janko Roettgers Oct 30, two thousand thirteen – 12:40 PM CDT
There goes that plan to unite the industry behind one movie single codec: Google (S GOOG) intends to stick with VP8 as its default codec for real-time communication, even after Cisco (s CSCO) won support from Mozilla in a last-minute thrust to get everyone to adopt H.264. …
Connecting through games on your phones is a way to spend time together even when you're apart, and while the choice of game apps seems limitless, most don't have a private connection that engages the two of you. There are, however, slew of plain party and campfire-style games that lend themselves to text play. …
Fox News suspended host Eric Bolling in the wake of an explosive report that female colleagues have accused the former commodities trader of texting them a lewd photo.
What makes the budding scandal even more hurting to the news network is that Bolling had been getting enhanced airtime in latest months as a potential replacement for Bill O'Reilly — who was ousted earlier this year in a separate sexual harassment probe. …
When it comes to movie messaging services, there are a lot of options to choose from, most notably Skype, Facetime and ooVoo. But there is also the Google Hangouts service. The Google platform offers all the same features as other popular services; plus a few users can’t get anywhere else. …
Facebook added a fresh way of socializing yesterday, or rather incorporated an old way. Now in addition to poking, messaging, posting, tagging, linking, questioning and otherwise exposing yourself to your friends—and your friends to your friends—you can movie talk. …