Skype Introduces a Fixed-Rate International Calling Plan

Skype, an eBay subsidiary, has released a flat-rate international calling plan to specific countries' landlines and mobile phones for $9.99 per month.

Coin dealer

There is an increasingly wide range of methods available to investors wanting to buy gold, or gain exposure to gold price movements. From gold coins to complex structured financial products, the most appropriate way will depend on the requirements and outlook of the individual investor.

My reasoning for my interest in gold coins is a little unique. I've tried to avoid the cliché stories about gold and gold coins. They're the "easy" stories to tell you. I'm avoiding them because, quite frankly, the easy stories gold bugs sell you are not the reason I'm buying.

I buy gold coins with a coin dealer because, first of all, I believe that gold is cheap.

Gold is financial catastrophe insurance. And we haven't had a financial catastrophe in the U.S. in 25 years. I'm not predicting financial catastrophe here, but if you hear Greenspan some weeks ago you will fear. I'm simply buying catastrophe insurance, when it's at its cheapest.

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Nokia 5310: XpressMusic

XpressMusic has been one of the most successful logos ever created by the Finnish giant, Nokia. Thus, as soon as Nokia 5310 has been rumored, fans of the XpressMusic series were thrilled about its look and features. It seems that Nokia's 5310 candy-bar might be the right answer to Sony Ericsson's growing line of Walkman series devices. Slimmer than any other music phone available on the market, Nokia 5310 Xpress Music is one of the few handsets to feature a dedicated audio chipset. Even though its price might suggest that it belongs to the mid-level class, in terms of quality Nokia 5310 handset is definitely a tier 1 device. One of the reasons is exactly the low price that you have to pay compared with its high number of good quality features. Announced in late summer 2007 (August), Nokia 5310 XpressMusic was out on the market 2 months later, in October 2007. The handset can be acquired for about USD 280$ without any plan, but depending on the location and plan, its price can be considerably lower.

Nokia 5310 XpressMusic adopts a standard candy-bar form, pretty much classic for Nokia's bar handsets. What really amazes is the slim thickness of the phone – only 9.9 mm. Without looking too flimsy or too stylish, Nokia 5310 will surely attract fans of the brand. Because of the low size thickness, almost all the important ports and keys have been moved on top of the device. Thus, on the left side of the phone, you'll find the small charger port, while the right side includes the dual volume key. Nothing else could be fit in here, so take a look on top of the phone to notice the microUSB port, the 3.5 mm jack port and the Power button.

Nokia 5310 XpressMusic runs on a S40 5th Edition interface, which is the latest user-interface coming from Nokia. If you wonder what happened with the 4th Edition, which should've been out right before the 3rd then look no further, as Nokia decided to drop it this one's favor. If you had a Nokia handset before that didn't have a Symbian OS, then this candy-bar will probably feel the same.

China reached 221 million of internet users

China has surpassed the United States to become the world's largest Internet-using population, reaching 221 million by the end of February. The number of Internet users in China was 210 million at the end of last year, only 5 million fewer than the U.S. Internet users then, Xinhua news agency said, quoting the China Internet Network Information Centre.

Internet censorship is common in China, where the government employs an elaborate system of filters and tens of thousands of human monitors to survey surfing habits, surgically clipping sensitive content. But the Internet has most recently become an important tool in countering anti-China protest dogging the Olympic torch relay with an outpouring of nationalism and indignation.

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Feds OK New Plan for Cell Phone Alerts

Cell phone users will soon be able to sign up to receive on their phones in a national emergency.

Prepare for the coming storm: Cell phone spam

Cell phone spam is a "perfect storm" of annoying attributes. It audibly interrupts your life like telemarketing. It's cheap to mass-produce like e-mail spam. And it holds you hostage like TV ads. There will be more than 4 billion cell phones to target by the end of the year. Yet cell phone advertising represents just about 1 percent of the total money spent on advertising. eMarketer projects that the $421 million spent on cell phone ads in the United States in 2006 will grow to $4.7 billion by 2011 and exceed $6.5 billion in 2012.

Advertisers speak of an ominous sounding "paradigm shift" in mobile advertising, where more of the spam will be multimedia, targeted and tracked. One use for ads will be subsidized services. We may very soon see major carriers offering free wireless service in exchange for ads. Those ads will pop up in the middle of YouTube videos, or play at the beginning of phone calls.

Panasonic rules in Japan

Panasonic has become the first cell-phone manufacturer to ship 100 million units in the Japanese market. The company first entered the market in 1979 when it launched its TZ-801 analog handset for the new car phone service of NTT Public Corp., the government-owned forerunner to the privatized NTT. It followed these six years later with the TZ-802A in 1985. The handset was a shoulder phone, so called because it could detached from a car holder and carried around over the user's shoulder. It weight about 7 kilograms, which is about 70 times the weight of today's handsets.

The first handheld phone from Panasonic, the TZ-802B, was a brick-like model launched in 1987. It debuted its first digital model for NTT's PDC (Personal Digital Communications) network, a Japan-developed second generation standard that failed to take off overseas, in 1991, and by June 1997 had hit shipments of 10 million phones. More recently Panasonic was one of the first phone makers to produce a handset for NTT DoCoMo's 3G services, which was the first commercial 3G service to launch when it started in 2001. At about the same time Panasonic hit shipments of 50 million handsets.

Android. A new operating system for cell phones.

After initially being standoffish, the head of AT&T Inc.'s wireless arm has taken a liking to Google Inc.'s project to create a new operating system for cell phones.

AT&T has been something of a holdout from Google's Open Handset Alliance. T-Mobile USA and Sprint Nextel Corp. are members, and Verizon Wireless has said it will throw its network open to any device, which would include phones with the software, called Android.

One of Google's aims with the software is to make its Web services, like search, e-mail and maps, easily accessible on a cell phone. By extension, it wants to extend its dominance in Internet advertising to the wireless sphere. Phones using the software are expected to show up later this year.

HTC Touch Dual Mobile Phone review

The HTC Touch Dual is a touch-screen mobile phone with some impressive features.