Skype and UK Mobile phone service provide 3 have joined hands and have announced today that they are going to sell Skype enabled phones from November 2 onwards in all the major stores of Britain.The 3G enabled Internet phone can be used both as a normal mobile phone and also to make Skype calls.

Users can make free calls and text messages to other Skype users. Also users can make cheap International Calls calls with the help of Skypeout account using the skypephone.

The handset was developed by Skype and 3 in partnership with Qualcomm, using Qualcomm’s BREW platform to enable Skype to work with core handset features such as address book and messaging.

Skype CEO said "Skype is now truly mobile. This new handset lets you make free mobile Skype calls when you are on the move to other Skype users all over the world".

The 3 Skypephone will be out in the following countries shortly, Australia, Austria, Denmark, Hong Kong, Italy, Ireland, Macau and Sweden. Free Skype-to-Skype calls will be only available only if you are on contract with 3 (or have enough balance with) the service and regular top-ups.

Free calls are Skype to Skype calls and Skype instant messages from the 3 network (in some countries also available when roaming on a 3 sister network).

More Details At Skype.

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After waiting in long queues, waiting on the streets for getting an IPhone for yourself, The iphone was bought by most of them for using it as a multimedia device.But the guys from Think Secret and iFixit had other ideas they have taken apart the phone for having a look at what when went into creating this phone.

Check out the step by step disassembly in pictures at Think Secret [ 49 images ] and Ifixit [ 25 Images ].

All the images show how to disassemble the phone but there are no images showing how to put all of that back.I doubt whether they could get to fix all those parts together and get the phone working. So don’t even think of doing this !!

Enjoy the phone and let aside about what went into making the phone.I mean the hardware, congrats to Apple engineers for their hard work.

Apple TV will soon offer content from Google’s YouTube. “This is the first time users can easily browse, find and watch YouTube videos right from their living room couch, and it’s really, really fun,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO.Beginning in mid-June, Apple TV will wirelessly stream videos directly from YouTube and play them on a user’s widescreen TV.

Users will be able to view the content using Apple TV interface, to browse, find and watch free videos from YouTube using Apple TV’s interface and Apple Remote.
YouTube members can also log-in to their YouTube accounts on Apple TV to view and save their favorite videos.The YouTube feature for Apple TV will be available as a free software update in mid-June.

Apple has also announced that it is offering a new Apple TV build-to-order option, with a 160GB hard drive for a suggested retail price of $399 (US).

For more check out theApple Press Release

Google’s acquisitions continues, next on its list is FeedBurner.You read it right the same FeedBurner with which you burn your site or blog feed for around $100 Million.
Many users have stopped visiting sites because they can get the latest on any site by subscribing to its feed,rather than visiting the site every time, doing so a user can can get information from many sites faster and easily.

So, How could FeedBurner acquisition be useful to Google?
1.Google can incorporate their adesense into the feeds.
2.Offer RSS Statistics in Google Analytics.

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The two week suspense over who would acquire DoubleClick is finally over.Google acquires DoubleClick,a online advertising company for $3.1 Billion an all cash deal .An agreement has been reached between the comapnies.This deal would increase Google’s online advertising stand even further and it can be said as a setback for Microsoft which was the second contender in the race for acquiring DoubleClick.Its nearly a DoubleClick by Google after its last acquisition of YouTube for $1.65 Billion.
Lets wait and see who’s next on Google’s list of ‘To be acquired’.

More about the deal on Google’s Official Blog - Link

Wikipedia the Free Encylopedia,written by volunteers indicated that it would ask anonymous contributors to prove their credentials and identify themselves. Contributors still would be able to remain anonymous.

This message was relayed by Wikipedia ,This would definitely increase Wikipedia’s credebility.