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Image via CrunchBase Yes. You read it right. Skype might have so far refused to grace Microsoft’s Mobile OS, however, it did not resist capturing screen on the most popular entertainment device. According to their website LG and Panasonic’s HDTVs with internet connectivity are been  embedded with Skype  which has  been tested in Skype’s labs in Tallinn, Estonia. To start [...]

British web start-up Huddle, which is a  web-based team collaboration and project management tool  announced a $10.2 million second round of funding, Huddle has now raised more than $15 million in  total. The funds will help the company stay competitive in the crowded collaboration market which is dominated by Box.com. With focus on US expansion it opened up an office in San Francisco with  [...]

Spotify, the hugely popular peer-to-peer music streaming service has started two new services –  a paid and a free one. Last August Spotify’s  free service  was  closed  to new free listeners in the UK , and was turned into an invitation only service, and the waiting list  is supposed to be many weeks. The new service Spotify Open is definite music to Spotify’s fans ears. Spotify [...]

Image via CrunchBase One of the most loved and used P2P  sharing web service LimeWire is facing imminent closure, courtesy,  a verdict by a US  federal court judge which  has  delivered a death blow to LimeWire , which is still  one of the most popular and oldest file-sharing systems. U.S. District Judge Kimba Wood granted summary judgment in favor of the RIAA (Recording Industry Association [...]

Image by Getty Images via Daylife Swedish entertainment company Voddler, which offers paid video-on-demand service which offers movies and TV programming has launched an free to download Android app for its advertisement funded movie service. Until this release on Android OS , the streaming TV and movie service, which is available in Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland, was only available [...]

When Twitter founder Jack Dorsey first announced Square mobile payment system, I thought it was a brilliant idea – and it still is. Being able to accept credit card payments on the go, no matter where you are, with an iPhone/iPod/iPad – fantastic. Square officially launched yesterday (on the iPad, initially) and the technology is already outdated. Square relies on the old fashioned [...]

A report was released by Consumer Focus,  a consumer rights group  in UK which pleads the UK government to rethink and redo  its strategy related for nationwide roll-out of broadband internet, if it wants to bring the internet to have a 100% reach in  UK. It reports that the people without  a broadband connection face a number of obstacles when it comes to getting  a broadband connection. It [...]

BBC iPlayer will have a rival with software behemoth Microsoft  launching an online video player named MSN Video Player, a video-on-demand service that enables U.K. consumers to watch TV anytime, anywhere at no extra charge. it will directly rival the iPlayer. The MSN Player which goes live on Saturday will feature thousands of hours of programming allowing users to enjoy full series of their favorite [...]

FarmVille, Facebook’s most widely used application has added the Facebook Credits payment option. In fact, Facebook Credits is now the default payment option in FarmVille and it comes in 2 variants – Farm Cash and Farm Coins. Facebook Credits, the virtual currency floated by Facebook has been very popular amongst the developer community as well as gamers. It’s a win-win situation for developers [...]

A vast majority of social gamers are game  to undertake a marketing action in return for virtual currency, according to new research  by comScore  for Offerpal Media which was released at the Game Developers Conference. Alternative payment methods enable developers to monetize significantly larger portions of their user base and currently they  struggle to monetize even three percent of their [...]