Services for your Connected Phone

Here’s a service that I’ve just read from TechCrunch about a service that’s been up for a while and hopes to provide a solution to prepaid mobile phone subscribers in the Philippines and India. The service allows people living in the United States or Canada to send a pre-paid load to someone in the Philippines by using the Internet or his/her mobile phone and a credit card. Continue reading …

Apple has recently celebrated it’s one billionth download from the Apple AppStore. The lucky grand prize winner of the App countdown contest is Connor Mulcahey, age 13, from Weston, CT. Connor will receive a $10,000 iTunes gift card, an iPod touch, a Time Capsule and a MacBook Pro. Lucky guy, he’s going to have a grand day downloading all the games he wants with the 10,000 dollar gift card.

Skype which started with a free desktop application for voice communications and has now released mobile versions of its very popular voice communication software will be having its IPO tentatively slated for the first half of 2010.

eBay Inc., the company that currently owns Skype, has announced that Skype will be moldedd into a separate stand-alone publicly traded company. This, according to eBay Inc’s CEO will allow Skype to reach its maximum potential. Skype has already experienced an improved performance in 2008 with its revenues increasing by 44 percent to $551 million. Registered users of Skype has also increased to 405 million — a 47 percent increase compared to 2007. The performance boost came in as Skype’s new management team was put in place by Donahoe — eBay’s CEO.

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I’ve just read an announcement that Google has made some changes to its user interface for the iPhone and Android mobile phones. The changes should make it easier for these mobile phone users to access gmail from their mobile phone. A new “floaty bar” feature has also been introduced for Gmail that lets the user access common functions in just one click.

With the new Calendar, it makes it easier to edit or respond to an event using your mobile phone even if you are currently offline. Switching between Gmail and Calendar is also easier with the new links at the top.