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TUAW TV Live: The shiny new live stream edition

by Steven Sande (May 8th, 2013)

Welcome back to another hour of fun, excitement and chat on this week's TUAW TV Live. The show is now part of the AOL On Network, so we're using a different livestream tool and chat room. No more Ustream, no more IRC chatroom. It's all right here on this page, where you'll watch the show and also ...

Sony releases a PlanetSide 2 app for iOS

by Mike Schramm (Apr 15th, 2013)

Sony has released PlanetSide 2 Mobile Uplink (free, universal), an iOS app that connects with the popular online game PlanetSide 2. The MMO has you traipsing around another world, trying to claim facilities and land for one of three factions. Now, PlanetSide 2 Mobile Uplink will help you track ...

TUAW TV Live: Shooting the virtual breeze

by Steven Sande (Feb 27th, 2013)

Another Wednesday, another TUAW TV Live. While Cupertino has been keeping things quiet recently, there's still a lot going on in the world of Apple. If you have some free time this afternoon, join my fellow TUAW blogger Randy Nelson and me for an hour of live chat about what's new. Below, ...

TUAW TV Live at 5 PM ET: A clean desktop is the sign of a cluttered mind

by Steven Sande (Feb 20th, 2013)

Today's going to be another "flying solo" episode of TUAW TV Live. My potential guest is still suffering from some viral crud or another, so I thought that we'd do another unboxing-fest to take a look at some great new Apple accessories and talk about apps. In case you're wondering about that ...

HipChat ditches Adobe Air for a native Mac client

by Randy Nelson (Feb 14th, 2013)

Collaborative chat service HipChat has been available on multiple platforms including Mac and iOS for some time, but the desktop iteration has until now existed as an Adobe Air app. Citing an outpouring of requests from its users and an internal unhappiness with Air as a platform, Atlassian has ...

Rabbit video chat beta kicks off

by Michael Rose (Feb 7th, 2013)

Late in December we told you about the upcoming Rabbit video chat and screensharing service, aimed specifically at Mac users in the near term. Rabbit's team has been cranking away since then, and today the service begins welcoming invited testers to the closed beta. Rabbit's aim is to ...

Rabbit aims to lift the limits on video chat, Mac beta coming next year

by Michael Rose (Dec 20th, 2012)

Considering how long it took for the videophone to truly reach the mass market -- the first public video telephony service was launched in Germany more than 75 years ago -- it's pretty remarkable how many video chat options we have today. From FaceTime to Microsoft's Skype to Cisco's WebEx, ...

Imo offers free voice calling for iOS users

by Mel Martin (Aug 14th, 2012)

The imo instant messenger app has been updated to add voice calls. The app can communicate with your friends on any almost IM network, including Facebook Chat, Google Talk, Skype, MSN, ICQ/AIM and more. With this latest update the app adds high quality voice calls. To place a call, you tap a ...

Biscotti and telyHD set-top video chat both get Father's Day upgrades

by Michael Rose (Jun 15th, 2012)

Combine geek-dad gadget lust with the promise of an easier way to stay in touch with faraway family, and you can see how the latest generation of standalone video chat boxes might have a good sales story to tell for this Father's Day weekend. While Cisco's discontinued ūmi never caught on in a ...

TUAW TV Live at 5 PM EDT

by Steven Sande (May 2nd, 2012)

This is just a subtle reminder that TUAW's weekly live streaming video broadcast, AKA TUAW TV Live, will be coming your way this afternoon at 5 PM EDT / 2 PM PDT. The topic will probably drift depending on what you -- the viewers -- want to talk about in the chat room, so bring your Apple ...

TUAW TV Live: iPads, apps, accessories, and trivia

by Steven Sande (Mar 14th, 2012)

Welcome back to another thrilling episode of TUAW TV Live! On today's show, I'll be doing the regular round of demos along with discussion with the chat room about the new iPad, and ending the show with another fun round of Apple trivia. As usual, the show will get underway at exactly 5 PM EDT / 2 ...

TUAW TV Live at 5 PM EDT: iPhone anticipation episode

by Steven Sande (Sep 28th, 2011)

Apple's announced the upcoming event at which we all hope to hear about a new iPhone or two, and I'm as giddy as a schoolgirl with anticipation. Well, as giddy as a 54 year-old guy can get, y'know? Today on TUAW TV Live, I want to share some thoughts and hopes for the new device(s) with you, ...

Exclusive: TinyChat to enable location-linked video chat on iPhone 4

by Michael Rose (May 13th, 2011)

When it comes to ad-hoc video chatting with friends, strangers or space aliens, the heir apparent to the Chatroulette throne is TinyChat. This Flash-based video-chatting service, launched in 2009, lets you create chatrooms on the fly. You and several friends can all broadcast, while more ...

AT&T CEO promises improved service from T-Mobile deal

by Mike Schramm (Mar 30th, 2011)

Businessweek had a chat recently with AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson, and he told them that the pending merger with T-Mobile would have the intended effect of improving service and capacity on the networks for all of AT&T's devices, including, of course, the iPhone. "Virtually on the day ...

TUAW TV Live: How would you improve the Mac OS?

by Steven Sande (Mar 23rd, 2011)

Today on TUAW TV Live it's all about the chat. I've sent out a tweet requesting input on what people think are features that are ripe for improvement in the Mac operating system, and we'll be bashing around some of those ideas in a free-for-all discussion about our favorite OS. As usual, I have ...