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FaceTime: Perfect for Absentee Dads Everywhere

Click to viewSure, the way Apple pitches it, FaceTime is for touching moments. But let’s be a little more realistic about it. [CollegeHumor]

Tech News Adam Frucci

iPhone 4 Video Sex Chat Services Already Staffing Up

That was quick: Just a few days after Apple’s iPhone 4 went on sale— featuring video chat capabilities — the “FaceTime” sex chat services are already starting up. Here’s a Craigslist ad offering a free iPhone 4 and a “very competitive salary” to girls who want to participate (via Clint Ecker). iPhone 4 FaceTime Video…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

FaceTime and Puppets and Apple Employees, Oh My!

We knew that we can call 1-888-FACETIME to try out a FaceTime chat with an Apple employee. What we didn’t know is that they’re also happy to talk to puppets and seem to work from a beach. [Thanks, Andrew!] https://gizmodo.com/call-apple-to-test-out-facetime-with-a-real-person-5572770

Tech News Rosa Golijan

1-888-FACETIME Might Be The Future of AppleCare

The line Apple set up for users to test out FaceTime is a great idea, but it might be leading to something bigger. The rep I spoke with mentioned that this is a trial for video calls with AppleCare. https://gizmodo.com/call-apple-to-test-out-facetime-with-a-real-person-5572770 If feedback is positive, I was told, you might soon have the option to call…

Tech News Adam Feldman

Call Apple To Test Out FaceTime With A Real Person

If your friends don’t have iPhone 4s, you’ll have no one to FaceTime with! Good thing Apple is letting you test FaceTime calls with Apple employees at 1-888-FACETIME. I got to talk to Dave. It was kind of awkward. They’re taking calls from 8AM-8PM CDT, so no late night freakshows. The employee gives you a…

Tech News Casey Chan

Test Notes: FaceTime

Videocalling has been a sci-fi staple for decades. From 2001 to Back to the Future people chatting face-to-face from great distances was a way of saying “Hey, look, it’s the future!” So does Facetime mean we’re in the future? FaceTime is Apple’s stab at making videocalling a reality. They’re certainly not the first: European and…

Tech News Adam Frucci

FaceTime Does Not Work Over Google Voice

Now that everyone can get Google Voice, you’ll be wondering if you can use FaceTime while making or receiving a call through Google Voice. Well, you can’t. Gotta make a naked call without GV. https://gizmodo.com/google-voice-no-longer-requires-invites-5569905 Don’t even TRY it when both people have Google Voice. Well, do try it, and cry when it says FaceTime…

Tech News Jason Chen

Apple Confirms: FaceTime Will Not Eat Up Your Carrier Minutes

Amidst the iPhone 4 cancellations and clusterfrack, some good news: FaceTime calls will not eat up your calling minutes, reports the Business Insider. Great! Hopefully my order won’t get canceled so I can see this or myself. The bad news: The side effect of this is that once FaceTime connects, you lose your voice call…

Tech News Jack Loftus

Idiot NY State Assemblyman Wants iPhone 4 Videocalling Banned from Roads

On the surface, NY State assemblyman Felix Ortiz’s push to ban iPhone videocalling from roads makes sense. It would be horribly unsafe! But then you realize that it would be impossible, and you shake your head. Yes, about 3 minutes of fact checking on Mr. Ortiz’s part would have provided him with the info that…

Tech News Adam Frucci

The 132-Year History of Videophones

Relive the 132 year history of videophones, one that’s littered with wild concepts, a few success stories and a ton of failures. AT&T, for example, has been working on videophones since 1927 and hasn’t got it right quite yet. [Technologizer]

Tech News Casey Chan

Microsoft (And Everyone), Adopt Apple’s FaceTime Videochat Standard

Microsoft just announced Videokinect that lets you videochat with other Kinect owners and Windows Messenger users. Last week, Apple announced FaceTime, which lets people videochat between iPhone 4’s. And then there’s Skype. This is a mess. Videochat is neat. It’s been neat for a while now, as people have been able to videochat from computer…

Tech News Adam Frucci

David Foster Wallace on Video Calling

Video calling may be a relatively new thing, but as Kottke points out, David Foster Wallace explored it in his epic novel Infinite Jest back in 1996. Here’s why it failed in that book’s world: Good old traditional audio-only phone conversations allowed you to presume that the person on the other end was paying complete…

Tech News Adam Frucci

What Is iPhone 4’s FaceTime Video Chat?

Steve Jobs usually saves the meatiest bit of his keynotes for the end. But WWDC’s “One More Thing” was a little tame: FaceTime, a video chat system for iPhone 4. So, what’s special about FaceTime, and how does it work? First, let’s get this out of the way: Yes, FaceTime is video chat, similar to…

Tech News John Herrman

FaceTime: Perfect for Absentee Dads Everywhere

iPhone 4 Video Sex Chat Services Already Staffing Up

FaceTime and Puppets and Apple Employees, Oh My!

1-888-FACETIME Might Be The Future of AppleCare

Call Apple To Test Out FaceTime With A Real Person

Test Notes: FaceTime

FaceTime Does Not Work Over Google Voice

Apple Confirms: FaceTime Will Not Eat Up Your Carrier Minutes

Idiot NY State Assemblyman Wants iPhone 4 Videocalling Banned from Roads

The 132-Year History of Videophones

Microsoft (And Everyone), Adopt Apple’s FaceTime Videochat Standard

David Foster Wallace on Video Calling

What Is iPhone 4’s FaceTime Video Chat?

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