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Get ready to make free calls, Skype (owned by eBay) is set to launch its first iPhone App today that will make calls from your iPhone free to other Skype users, via any Wi-Fi access point (possibly via 3G if Apple’s other deals don’t stand it the way) or users can make much cheaper calls [...]

It’s being reported from numerous technology news sources that Google is about to launch an application today that will allow the user to speak into an iPhone and receive search results. Initial reports are that there are some bugs with the system but that it generally works well.
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A California train engineer who was sending and receiving text messages was blamed last month for causing one of the worst railroad crashes in U.S. history that killed 25 people.
Despite such risks, many Americans send and receive text messages on mobile e-mail devices in dangerous situations, according to a survey released on [...]

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Extending its tech-savvy strategy, the Obama campaign Thursday released an iPhone application that lets users enlist their support via the Apple device.
Heading into the home stretch of the presidential race, a key feature organizes contacts by battleground states to aid get-out-the-vote efforts. A user can track friends they’ve contacted, who they’re supporting [...]

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SAN FRANCISCO — Google and T-Mobile unveiled their answer to the iPhone on Tuesday, pulling the wraps off a slick mobile device that combines a touch screen and a keyboard and is aimed at putting the Internet in the pockets of millions of cellphone users.

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There are a wide variety of VoIP applications coming out on the market that will allow smartphones to make calls wherever an accessible wi-fi connection exists. This will enable some people to reduce their cell phone minutes, if wi-fi is widely available (which, in some areas is not always the case). And what is going [...]

In a move that will significantly expand its retail presence in time for the holiday season, Apple has agreed to let retailing giant Best Buy sell the new iPhone 3G through its nationwide chain of Best Buy Mobile outlets starting early next month.
Best Buy markets cell phones in the United States through 970 full-size stores [...]

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You bought the iPhone, you paid for it, but now Apple is telling you how you have to use it, and if you don’t do things they way they say, they’re going to lock it. Turn it into a useless “brick.” Is this any way to treat a customer? Apparently, it’s the Steve Jobs way. [...]