Microsoft has confirmed what many suspected: Front facing cameras, and Skype’s support of them, arecoming in Mango. Mango, the first major software refresh to the Windows Phone platform, contains support for several new hardware elements, including gyroscopes. The following sentence is thecrucial tweetfrom WindowsPhoneNZ:“Nice, they just confirmed at TechEd NZ that #WP7 devices with forward facing cameras are coming with Mango – and Skype will support it.” Of course, as Microsoft moves ever closer to concluding its purchase of Skype, any video or voice interaction that its phones support will eventually be integrated with the telephonic giant....

When you’re talking about taking care of customers, there’s probably no one person who is more vocal and visible about that subject than Gary Vaynerchuk. It shouldn’t have been much of a surprise then to see Gary V himself talking via a recorded video about howHelp Scoutwas an incredible product. It was Boston TechStars Demo Day and that simply wasn’t expected. You see, Help Scout has some strong beliefs and it holds to them rabidly....

If you’re aGoogle Apps for Businessuser, you’ve undoubtedly been frustrated by the release ofGoogle+. The product, still very much in private beta, isn’t available to you guys yet. I’m a paying Google Apps user myself and understand the frustration. In fact in my eagerness to use Google+ on a daily basis, I made the switch and have literally moved all my email from my paid-for Google Apps account to a standard free Gmail account....

Facebook’s “special announcement” ofa new VR meeting appwas curiously timed. It arrived on the same day that the Federal Trade Commission made a fresh attempt to forcethe companyto sell Instagram and WhatsApp. The FTC filed an antitrust complaint on Thursday that alleges Facebook usedan illegal buy-or-bury scheme to maintain its market dominance. The US competition regulator argues that Facebook repeatedly failed to develop meaningful innovations on its mobile app. Instead, it acquired competitors, including Instagram and WhatsApp, with features that had succeeded where Facebook’s own attempts had failed....

Fuck yeah, under-screen cameras are nearly here — thanks, Xiaomi! Get in the fucking sea, notch Under-screen cameras: coming to a phone near you Yes, under-screen cameras are coming.Soon. Specifically, next year if Xiaomi is to be trusted. How do we know this well? Well, the company stated ina blog postthat its third generation under-screen camera is ready for consumer use. It’s set to appear on devices in 2021 and I, for one, am hyped....