Wi-Fi Phones are Coming

By David Needle
What’s next in tech? For the past eleven years, the Churchill Club has taken a crack at answering that question with a panel of high profile venture capitalists proposing and debating trends as part of the annual Top 10 Tech Trends event.
Last night’s dinner event before a packed Hyatt Regency hall here covered [...]

People Will Pay For VoIP Because It’s In A Game?

There are plenty of places for people to make free VoIP calls through their PCs these days, while the cost of phone-based VoIP service keeps falling towards zero. Given this, it’s a little surprising to see the companies behind some online video games and virtual worlds planning to start charging users to make in-game or [...]

FBI ‘Going Dark’ with New Advanced Surveillance Program

The proposed 2010 Justice Department budget published last week reveals the development of a new FBI advanced electronic surveillance program dubbed “Going Dark.” The program is being budgeted $233.9 million next year.
According to the published budget summary (.pdf), the program “supports the FBI’s electronic surveillance (ELSUR), intelligence collection and evidence gathering capabilities, as well as those of [...]