New and Noteworthy: iPhone to allow free VoIP calls; Apple Rumor Generator promises all kinds of wild products; more

iPhone to allow free VoIP calls IT Wire reports that Jajah will allow iPhone users to bypass their cellphone network charges to make and receive Voice over IP calls, without the need for internet access. "It works by getting the Jajah service to call your mobile phone via VoIP and the call the other party via VoIP. As both parties are receiving calls, they don't have to pay anything to their network provider." More.

Apple Rumor Generator promises all kinds of wild products engadget reports on the Apple rumor generator, for creating your very own speculative product introduction prediction. "Luckily the good folks at Apple Gazette empathize with your need for Apple 'news' on the regular, and have helpfully created a tool that will fill the gossip vacuum with info just as reliable as the usual sketchiness which infects the 'nets. Their Apple Rumor Generator picks a random clause from each of nine different phrase banks, and combines them for a fresh, exciting new bit of speculation with each press of the radio button -- feeding your Apple jones has never been easier. Ultra portable Mac Pro? It's in there." More.

College goes "All-Mac" across campus Network World reports that Wilkes University in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., instituted a university-wide switch from Windows PCs to Apple's new Intel-based Macintoshes. "Over the next three years, the college will become an 'all-Mac' campus, giving faculty and students access to iLife and Mac OS applications (as well as Windows applications through the Intel-based systems)." More.

Food for Thought: an Apple VC Fund A New York Times column speculates on what Apple will do with its US $12 billion in cash. "How should the high-flying maker of iPods and Macs spend that money? According to BusinessWeek's Arik Hesseldahl, the company should launch a $1 billion venture-capital fund. Big acquisitions, especially of tech companies, haven?t always fared well, Mr. Hesseldahl writes. Apple also has a tendency to pick up small companies whose projects can easily be integrated with its own." More.

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