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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 [...]

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 [...]