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Just playing catch up from the holiday, folks. Fring announced yesterday that video calls are now available on the iPhone and iPod Touch. It’s only one-way meaning you’ll be able to see folks via Fring or Skype, but they won’t be able to see you because, you know, the iPhone doesn’t have a forward facing camera. It only works over Wi-Fi and a select few Nokia S60 devices support 2-way video calls. This can’t be good for battery life.
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The Wall Street Journal’s Amir Efrati and Ethan Smith are reporting that Google is working on a consumer-electronics system designed to stream music–and, eventually, maybe video and other media–around the home. Their story doesn’t have much in the way of detail, but does say that Google’s brainchild might be akin to a lower-cost version of Sonos’s excellent-but-pricey music-streaming products. Absent more details, there are several ways to respond to this sketchy bit of news.
