As you’ve undoubtedly heard, one of the big new features of the iPhone 4 is FaceTime, the video chatting functionality. If you’re on a call with another iPhone 4 user (and both of you are connected to WiFi), you’ll see a new FaceTime button in the bottom row of the call options. But as some people have noticed, this new button replaces the “Hold” button found on all other iPhones. So how do you put a call on hold now? One reader, Jonathan Cowperthwait, emailed Steve Jobs today to find out.
Less than two hours later, he got a response. (Apparently, Jobs is on top of his emails even on days when he’s launching a massive new product.) In typical Jobs fashion, here’s his answer: → Read More
The future has officially arrived, ladies and gentlemen: El Steve just made a video call to Jony Ive as part of his famous “One more thing” sequence of the Apple WWDC. → Read More
The ever increasing popularity and usage of social networking sites, blogs, and instant messaging services in the workplace–while beneficial in many cases–is the cause of many security concerns for IT and security specialists. Human mistakes, such as disclosing private information through these portals and accepting malicious content via file transfers, coupled with newly enacted regulatory compliance which force many companies to record all of their electronic transmissions, stress the need for a new solution to combat these challenges. FaceTime’s newest product which is launching today, Unified Security Gateway 3.0, hopes to be this solution.
The product, which I have aptly dubbed “The Regulator,” moves FaceTime from their niche, Instant Messaging Compliance, where they track over 230 Instant Messaging Applications, to the overarching web security domain. Unified Security Gateway 3.0 will still monitor these IM applications, as well as web mail, social networks such as LinkedIn and Facebook, and blogs. → Read More
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