Skype ads value with iPhone

The iPhone is an internet-connected multimedia smartphone with high resulation camera most important hand set today in the world. The Luxembourg-based company, a division of eBay, plans to announce today that it will make its free software available immediately for Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch and, beginning in May, for various BlackBerry phones, made by Research in Motion. Other companies have already made software for those phones that works with Skype, but it does not offer all of the service's features.As with Skype on the computer, users of Skype on mobile phones can make calls and send instant messages to other Skype users free, and they pay lower rates than the phone companies would charge when they use Skype to call landlines or other mobile phones. This year, Skype proclaimed versions of its software for Nokia phones and iPhone running Microsoft's Windows Mobile and Google's Android operating systems.

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Nokia makes partership with China

Nokia, the world's largest mobile phone manufacturer, and China PTAC, China's largest mobile phone distributor, enjoy a long-standing partnership that continues to strengthen.Nokia has improved a trade agreement in China. which will see it sell mobile phones value at least US$1.76 billion in 2009 to China PTAC. Mr. Colin Giles, President of Nokia China and Senior Vice President, Greater China, Japan and Korea Sales Unit, and Mr. Tan Xinhui, Chairman of China PTAC Communication Service, signed the agreement on behalf of the two parties.In addition, both parties have agreed to expand strategic ties especially with regard to 3G and operator business.Nokia is estimated to have sold around US$2 billion worth of mobile pho­nes to China PTAC in 2008.

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