Skype for iPad officially launched today after briefly appearing in the App Store last night.

After giving the world a a brief tease Monday night, Skype for iPad is now (finally) live.

The tablet version of Skype’s app is crisp and seemingly bug-free on the iPad 2’s 1024-by-768-pixel display. You’ve got all the features of the iPhone app — voice and video calling over 3G or Wi-Fi (using the front- or rear-facing camera), the ability to make calls to landlines or receive calls using your Online Number, and instant messaging — but it’s now optimized for the iPad.

The Skype for iPhone app has...

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Victor Lortz understands that feeling — and he’s done something about it.

Lortz, an engineer at Intel, has developed an electronic watchdog to catch those scofflaws in the act and even send live footage to your phone. He’s onto something, because when he announced the the project during the Research@Intel conference, the crowd broke into ap...