Skype application for iPhone and iPod touch should be available tomorrow on the App Store at no cost. As expected, the upcoming client will include free Skype-to-Skype calls and SkypeOut support over Wi-Fi only as well as interface integration and instant messaging to other users. Users won’t be able to place calls over cellular networks, which certainly comes as a disappointment, but with Wi-Fi networks becoming so widespread at least some users will save on international calls and roaming costs from time to time.
Users can already get Skype for the …

The next iteration of Windows is evolving at fast pace. With less than two months since the first and only beta was made public, it appears that a release candidate build has already been branched off of the main code tree and is being prepared for release as early as the end of this month to select testers.
Specifically, WinFuture.de claims that an RC1 build (presumably 7048) will be released privately sometime around February 27 to MSDN and TechNet subscribers as well as beta testers signed up on Microsoft Connect and …

Google took the stage at the Mobile World Congress recently to demo several of its latest technologies, perhaps the most interesting of which was an offline version of Gmail for the iPhone 3G and Android built on HTML 5 standards. The experimental web based application lets users access their email offline and also brings support for Gmail’s labels feature.
Unlike on the desktop, where the feature relies on extensions, offline Gmail for mobiles is dependent on HTML5’s AppCache and database standards to keep data available when there is no internet connection, …

It looks like Facebook is finally planning to capitalize on all that precious information that its 150 million users put on their profiles by creating one of the world’s largest market research databases.
“I had tons of people saying ‘this could be so incredible for our business’. It takes a very long time to do a focus group, and businesses often don’t have the luxury of time. I think they liked the instant responses,” stated Randi Zuckerberg, Mark’s sister and Facebook’s global markets director, regarding the possible monetization of the social …

According to the Korea Communications Commission, there are currently plans in place that will enhance the country’s broadband speeds to 1Gbps by the year 2012. For a frame of reference, that’s 200 times as fast as the average 5Mbps DSL connection here in the United States.
In addition to the wired infrastructure, Korea is hoping to upgrade their wireless broadband to at least 10Mbps. The KCC is encouraging the WiBro standard as a way to boost their own speeds to ten times the current rate.
This growth comes as a big part …