For the first time in the United States, mobile phone users can now download a “lite” version of Skype that can be used for making calls to other Skype members and to landline and mobile phones at a low rate. Unlike Truphone, Skype lite doesn’t require Wi-Fi and instead utilizes the phone’s data plan.
Skype has [...]

Broadcom will enhance its mobile device chipsets and location-based services (LBS) infrastructure through a partnership with Skyhook Wireless, the company that powers the iPhone’s location feature using Wi-Fi access points.
In addition to being a major vendor of communications chips, Broadcom also operates an international infrastructure for location-based services that uses information from GPS (Global Positioning [...]

From 2009, children in the Netherlands will be able to call the national children’s help line free of charge on their mobile phones. Youth and Family Minister André Rouvoet has earmarked 400,000 euros for the project.
He said it was important for children in need to be able to talk about their problems, and that the [...]