Linked List: September 2, 2010

Thursday, 2 September 2010

That Skype for Android Update That Purportedly Worked Over Wi-Fi? Not So Fast ★

Still tied to Verizon’s 3G network — your Wi-Fi connection doesn’t disconnect while using the app, but Skype doesn’t actually use it. Sounds great.

CRN: ‘Samsung Vows Allegiance to Google Android’ ★

CRN:

And while Samsung also expects to leverage its own software, called bada, in future devices as well, it’s putting the majority of its eggs in the Android basket, as Android’s popularity continues to snowball with other device makers like Motorola and HTC hitching their device wagons to Google Android.

That wasn’t the tune Samsung was singing about Bada last year.

Steve Jobs on Why Ping Doesn’t Integrate With Facebook ★

Kara Swisher:

And Facebook is nowhere on Ping, either. Currently, there is no linking, sharing or participation of any kind with Facebook–or Twitter or MySpace–on Ping, which will work only on the iTunes software on computers, iPhones and iPods.

When I asked Jobs about that, he said Apple had indeed held talks with Facebook about a variety of unspecified partnerships related to Ping, but the discussions went nowhere.

The reason, according to Jobs: Facebook wanted “onerous terms that we could not agree to.”

Tim Bray on the Samsung Galaxy Tab ★

Give Samsung credit: their debut Android tablet is not a clone of the iPad. Smaller and lighter, if it has an advantage, it’s that you can hold it in one hand for reading. Bray has links to coverage elsewhere, too.

Skype Mobile for Android Now Works Over WiFi, But Still Verizon-Only ★

Android is open, but more open on Verizon.