FaceTime versus Fring: iPhone 4 video chat throwdown

FaceTime's video chat functionality has much to offer iPhone 4 users, but there's room to grow. (Credit: Screenshot by Jessica Dolcourt/CNET) It wasn’t exactly a surprise when Apple demoed video chatting that uses the front-facing camera during the iPhone 4 announcement on June 7

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Fring picks up video calling on Android

We had a mixed experience with two-way calling on Fring for Android.

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Fring picks up video calling on Android

Blink to log in with your face

Blink detects your face at your Windows login screen, but it won't work on x64 computers. (Credit: Luxand) There’s more to your webcam than Chat Roulette and Skype-powered confabs. Blink ties your Windows login to your face, supported by the facial-recognition algorithms of its publisher, Luxand.

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Security software maker Vitamin D exits beta

p div class=”cnet-image-div image-large float-none” style=”width: 610px” img class=”cnet-image” src=”/i/bto/20100208/VDV_highlight_reel_610×280.jpg” alt=”" width=”610″ height=”280″ / p class=”image-caption”One of the strengths of Vitamin D Video, which exited beta on Monday, is its ability to pick out humans in surveillance video, allowing more easy scanning of hours of security camera footage./p span class=”image-credit”(Credit: Vitamin D)/span /div /pp Vitamin D, the start-up a title=”Ex-Palm trio loads up on Vitamin D — Monday, Nov 9, 2009″ href=”http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10392844-56.html”founded by three former Palm executives/a, said on Monday that it is ready with the final Version 1.0 of its software for a href=”http://download.cnet.com/Vitamin-D/3000-2162_4-75115638.html”Windows/a and a href=”http://download.cnet.com/Vitamin-D/3000-2162_4-75115635.html”Mac/a, which enables people to use a standard Webcam as a security system.

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