Skype for Symbian Phones (Nokia)

One day after Skype yanked support for Windows and Java mobiles, citing a lack of consistent quality across handsets, the proprietary VoIP outfit is showing its love for Symbian. Skype’s free mobile app for Nokia’s Symbian OS has left the beta stage and is now available directly from the mobile Ovi Store or alternatively the Skype website. Skype for Symbian will run on any Nokia smartphone using Symbian^1, the latest version of the mobile OS. (A list of the compatible devices is available here). The app works over both a 3G mobile data connection or WiFi, and it allows users to make free Skype-to-Skype calls across the globe, along with gratis instant messaging, text messaging, and picture and video sharing.

Earlier this month, Skype announced a partnership with the mobile carrier Verizon to make a similar smartphone app for select BlackBerry and Android phones on Verizon’s network. It would seem as VoIP applications spread across more mobile devices, service providers must warm up to the idea that data plans will replace voice as the main source of revenue. Skype already runs on the iPhone over WiFi only, although a 3G-enabled version is expected soon. The company said "soon" it will update the Symbian app so that it will work on Symbian mobiles from other manufacturers, including Sony Ericsson. ®

 

Source : TheRegister.co.uk

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WOW ! New iPods !!!

Today, i got a mail on my inbox :

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iPod Shuflle in new colors !

New iPod Nano

iPod Touch

Classic iPod – to 160 GB !

Is electronic mail stressing you out?

A new study that was recently conducted by two Scottish researchers revealed that a third of office workers suffer from stress related to the non-ending flow of emails arriving in their in-boxes.

Of the 177 people interviewed by the team at the University of Glasgow and the University of Paisley, 34 percent of workers felt stressed by the number of the emails they received and felt obliged to reply quickly. More than half of those surveyed said they checked their in-box more than once an hour, while 35 per cent sheepishly admitted to checking for new messages every 15 minutes.

I’m not exactly sure if 177 subjects is enough to make the results of this study relevant, so let’s do our own research. How often do you check your in-box? Are you an email junkie, and if you are, do you think this makes you less productive and more prone to suffer from stress? Let us know in the comments section below.

Comcast Throttles BitTorrent Traffic

Afraid of excessive bandwidth usage, ISPs have been throttling BitTorrent traffic for almost two years now. While most ISPs simply limit the available bandwidth for BitTorrent, Comcast has now taken it one step further, and is actively preventing its customers from seeding, if the latest user reports are to be believed. Comcast is not alone in this: Canadian ISPs Cogeco and Rogers use similar methods on a smaller scale. These more aggressive throttling methods can’t be circumvented by simply enabling encryption in a BitTorrent client, as Comcast is reportedly using an application from Sandvine to throttle BitTorrent traffic; the application apparently breaks every (seed) connection with new peers after a few seconds if it’s not a Comcast user, making it virtually impossible to seed a file, especially in small swarms without any Comcast users. Although some users report that they can still connect to a few peers, most of the Comcast customers chiming in have seen a significant drop in upload speed.

Sandvine’s throttling works like this: a few seconds after one connects to a peer in the BitTorrent swarm, Sandvine sends a peer reset message (RST flag) and the upload immediately stops. Most vulnerable are users in a relatively small swarm where one only has a few peers to which to upload. However, only seeding seems to be prevented, as most users are able to upload to others while the download is still going; once the download is finished, though, the upload speed drops to 0.

Yahoo! Messenger 8.1.0.415

Yahoo! Messenger is a popular instant messaging client and protocol provided by Yahoo!. Yahoo! Messenger is provided free of charge and can be downloaded and used with a generic “Yahoo! ID” which also allows access to other Yahoo! services, such as Yahoo! Mail, where users can be automatically notified when they receive new email. Yahoo! offers PC to PC telephone, file transfers, webcam hosting, text messaging service, and chat rooms in various categories. In addition to instant messaging features similar to those offered by ICQ, it also offers (on Microsoft Windows) many unique features such as: IMVironments (customizing the look of Instant Message windows), address-book integration and Custom Status Messages. It was also the first major IM client to feature BUZZing and music-status. Another recently added feature is customized avatars.

Features:

* Yahoo! Voice – Yahoo! Voice is a Voice over IP PC-PC, PC-Phone and Phone-to-PC service provided by Yahoo! via its Yahoo! Messenger instant messaging application.
* Voicemail and file sharing – Yahoo! added voicemail and file sending capabilities to their client. File-sharing of sizes up to 1GB was added.
* Plug-ins -As of 8.0, Yahoo! Messenger has added the ability for users tocreateplug-ins (via the use of the freely available Yahoo! MessengerPlug-inSDK), which are then hosted and showcased on the Yahoo!Plug-ingallery.
* Interoperability with Windows Live Messenger-This allows, for Yahoo! and Windows Live Messenger users to chattoeachother without the need to create an account on theotherservice,provided both contacts use the latest versions of theclients. For now,it’s impossible to talk using the voice service amongbothmessengers.

Download: Yahoo! Messenger 8.1.0.415
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Google Offers 6GB, 35GB, 100GB, 250GB Gmail & Picasa Storage

Google has launched a new service that will allow users to expand their Picasa and Gmail storage limits. Currently, the two free services offer 1GB and 2.8GB of storage space respectively.

Users who run out of storage space will now be able to purchase additional space from Google. The extra space will start at $20 for 6GB and sell as a yearly subscription service.

Additional storage plans include 25GB for $75, 100GB for $250, and 250GB for $500 per year. Unlike storage on the free service, users who have purchased the extra capacity will be able to fill it with any combination of Picasa and Gmail content. Free users are limited to each service’s default limit.

Gmail launched in 2004 with a 1GB storage limit. One year later that was increased to 2GB, and later to 2.8GB. At the time, this was considered an extremely large amount of storage space in comparison to rival services such as Yahoo Mail and Microsoft’s Hotmail.

Google saw its capacity lead diminish, however, when Microsoft bumped Hotmail’s limit to 2GB, and Yahoo removed storage limits altogether.

Free E-Mail ID For A Couple Of Minutes

These are two offers you can avail :

Guerrilla Mail provides you with disposable e-mail addresses which expire after 15 Minutes. You can read and reply to e-mails that are sent to the temporary e-mail address within the given time frame. (Video Tutorial)

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Welcome to 10 Minute Mail

By clicking on the link below, you will be given a temporary e-mail address. Any e-mails sent to that address will show up automatically on the web page. You can read them, click on links, and even reply to them. The e-mail address will expire after 10 minutes.

Why would you use this? Maybe you want to sign up for a site which requires that you provide an e-mail address to send a validation e-mail to. And maybe you don’t want to give up your real e-mail address and end up on a bunch of spam lists. This is nice and disposable. And it’s free. Enjoy!

Get my 10 Minute Mail e-mail address.