eBay's Skype Internet telephony service remains a hugely popular, highly efficient way to communicate with colleagues and family all over the world at a free or very low cost per call.
Skype To Go for cheap calls
(Credit: Skype)With the addition of a new feature allowing your Skype To Go number to be used to make outbound calls from any landline or mobile phone, it just got a lot easier and cheaper to dial internationally. This service also ratchets up Skype's ability to better monetize a massive but largely unpaid user base:
A Skype To Go number lets you make superlow-cost international calls from mobiles and landlines. When you're on the move, dial the Skype To Go number from any phone to reach your friends, family, or business partners abroad. Skype To Go numbers are local numbers, so if they're included in your phone's calling plan, you'll pay only the low Skype rates for the calls you make.
Once you get a Skype To Go number, you call it instead of dialing the international number directly. You can set up speed dial or just follow the prompts to call a number. Your Skype To Go number charges you the same low rate as it would if you had used Skype on your computer to call the international number.
According to Download Squad, Skype To Go used to require a Skype Pro plan (which is probably why I never used it.) Now it's available to all users with a Skype account, and a bit of Skype Credit or a subscription.
Via Lifehacker
Google on Thursday announced Android Market, an online center that will let people find, buy, download, and rate applications and other content for mobile phones equipped with the open-source operating system.
These screen shots show the Android phone interface to the Android Market. The software shows what applications can be downloaded and reviews of applications that people are browsing.
(Credit: Google)Attracting developer attention is a key part of the Google-led Android software effort, and those who produce applications will have an easy time getting them to the market, Eric Chu of Google's Android project said in a Thursday blog post.
"Similar to YouTube, content can debut in the marketplace after only three simple steps: register as a merchant, upload and describe your content and publish it," Chu said. "We chose the term 'market' rather than 'store' because we feel that developers should have an open and unobstructed environment to make their content available."
Though the first Android phones are planned to arrive later this year, Chu said to expect the initial phone-based Android Market application to be a beta version that might only support distribution of free applications. An update later will handle different versions of applications, support for different profiles of Android phones, and analytics to help developers track adoption.
The move was expected. Google said in May at the Google I/O conference that it would provide a central repository of Android software.
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