Skype 2.0 for iPhone has finally arrived, bringing with it the 3G calling that’s been promised for months and months. But get your calls in quick–there will be a “small monthly fee” for Skype-to-Skype calls after August.

That’s an unpleasant surprise, definitely, but at least for the summer you’ll get the 3G Skype-to-Skype action you might’ve forgotten you were waiting for. Upgrades / improvements include:

• Call using your 3G connection. Skype-to-Skype calls on 3G are free until at least end of August 2010, after which there will be a small monthly fee (operator charges for data will still apply).
• Near CD-quality sound for Skype-to-Skype calls using wideband audio (SILK codec) on iPhone 3GS and 2nd generation iPod touch.
• Enhanced call quality indicator.
• Improved start-up time.
• Fast access to the dial pad from iPhone home screen.

This story originally appeared on Gizmodo.

Version 3 of the Chrome browser is one of the browsers for which, starting June 1, Google is phasing out support on its Reader site. The site is used for reading Web pages whose updates are broadcast to subscribers through RSS or Atom feed technology.

“Reader is a cutting-edge Web application, and this will allow us to spend our time improving Reader instead of fixing issues with antiquated browsers,” Mihai Parparita, a technical leader for Google Reader, said in a blog post this week. Reader kept Chrome 3 support longer than some sites: Google Docs dropped support for it and other older browsers on March 1.

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Your computer is often problematic? Perhaps one reason because the drivers are outdated. Then, solution is what? Obviously with updating your drivers, your problems will be resolved. One thing you need to know is, by installing the correct drivers will increase performance of your public relations and optimal. But the problem is where we can find a suitable driver for our computers?
You can try to find it in driveraccess. There you can find the latest drivers from your computer version, like:

• AC97 drivers
• Bluetooth drivers
• Chipset drivers
• DVD drivers
• Ethernet drivers
• FireWire drivers
• Motherboard drivers
• Printer drivers
• Router drivers
• Sound card drivers
• USB drivers
• Video card drivers
• Webcam drivers
• Wireless drivers
• Windows XP drivers
• Windows Vista drivers

In addition, they have a Driver Scan feature, which functions to see if you need updated drivers. You do not need to fear the threat of viruses or spyware, because Driver Access has been certified free of viruses and spyware that makes your computer 100% safe.

So, if you have serious problems with the drivers on your computer, driveraccess.com is the solution. Because the driver you need will be updated automatically, of course, with the latest version of the driver. So, you do not need to spend time just to find the latest drivers that are compatible with your computer.

If you are not aware of the new communication technology called VoIP, then this piece of story aptly fits to your needs of learning about it. In today’s fast life, technology has become much vast letting people avail sophistications in almost every thing. Now people have awareness about conducting meetings online. VoIP too provides the users conduct meetings over the Internet though it uses the phone as well. In this process, the connection between the phone and modem is made. Don’t have a modem? No problem, you may buy it or get it from the ISP. By plugging the VoIP modem into the present modem and PC and then plugging the phone into the VoIP modem, you make the set-up.

Many of the VoIP service offer the features like call waiting, caller identification, call forwarding, voicemail and many others in many of their plans. After signing up for any of the plans, you will be receiving e-mail alerts for voicemail and enjoying web access as well. Apart from the access to the web, you may avail the facility of managing your account online. The most interesting element is that you are not required to buy a handset or new number.

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Facebook claims that it has 400 million users. But are they well-protected from prying eyes, scammers, and unwanted marketers?

Not according to Joan Goodchild, senior editor of CSO (Chief Security Officer) Online.

She says your privacy may be at far greater risk of being violated than you know, when you log onto the social-networking site, due to security gaffes or marketing efforts by the company.

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It’s been a long time since it got in the way of the World Series, but the threat of seismic tumult still hangs over Silicon Valley. When earthquakes elsewhere in the world dominate the news, people get a little more sensitive to their own vulnerability in the Bay Area. The ground might really have just given a twitch. Is it moving?

Comparing Facebook’s latest product modifications to deadly natural disasters is probably a little bit inappropriate, but the psychological reaction doesn’t seem all that different. The social network modified its policies for handling user data once again as part of its F8 conference and release of the Open Graph API, and ever since it became clear that more information is being set as public by default and more is being shared with third parties, concerned Facebook users have been on jittery alert, perhaps prone to overreaction, concerned that something even bigger may be about to change.

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Yahoo has always seemed like such a nice place. The sort of place where, if you happened upon it by chance, the inhabitants would sit you down, give you a cup of tea and a cookie, and ask you what brought you to its parts. They’d even ask you how to pronounce your name.

So how odd and strangely refreshing to see Yahoo roll up a little ball of competitive spit and blow it in the direction of Google.

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SAN FRANCISCO–With a new tool called Spindex, Microsoft’s Future Social Experiences Labs division is diving into a niche where many have failed: social-media aggregation.

Lili Cheng, general manager of Microsoft’s FUSE labs, unveiled the tool onstage here at the Web 2.0 Expo on Tuesday afternoon, saying, “we kind of call it the impossible project.”

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When people like this do things like this they register their occupation, on registering their new gizmo, as “other.”

What could be more accurate. Each time someone takes a new Apple product and, you know, smashes it, destroys it, or mutilates it, one cannot help but admire the ingenuity that has gone in to such a pursuit. Ingenuity that could have otherwise been put to use in, oh, perhaps an episode of “Mythbusters.”

Still, this is modern art. If anything is.

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Blogging is certainly not a new concept these days. Many people want to learn how to make money from blogging. Everyone from your uncle to your mother seems to be setting up a blog to espouse about their views on anything under the sun. Most Bloggers go like gangbusters when they first start out, pumping out articles and opinions at a prolific level, then suddenly and without warning, peter out. The usual culprit behind this sudden loss of interest in blogging is generally caused by the author realizing there really isn’t much in the way of interest in reading what they have to say.

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