Dream, the first Android phone in Italy

Dream is the first HTC cellphone sold in Italy by Telecom Italia showing the new Google Android operating system.
Between the main features we can find:

• Connections: UMTS, HSDPA, Wi-Fi, GPS, HSUPA
• Quad Band: 850/900/1800/1900 Mhz
• MP3 Player
• Touchscreen TFT-LCD of 3.2" (65K colors)
• Wi-Fi LAN, bluetooth 2.0 (only with audio devices)
• 3,2 megapixels Digital camera with autofocus and 4X zoom
• 1 GB Micro SD Card, 192 MB of internal memory
• QWERTY keyboard, integrated GPS, digital compass and motion sensor
• Dimensions: 117,7x55,7x17,1 mm.
• Weight: 158 gr.

For more informations and prices visit this page (italian language).

Skype™ open its SIP Protocol

Skype™ launch its beta version of SIP (Session Initiation Protocol), to allow companies and offices that own a PBX, a telephone exchange like Asterisk, to use the cheap rates of Skype™ to call telephones all over the world, obviously the Skype-To-Skype calls, by the SIP protocol, are free.
In a near future it will be possible to knock down almost completely the costs of normal phone calls, when most companies, offices and business activity will be equipped with easy and practical systems of voice communication by Internet, without the need to use a phone provider, if not for the broadband connection.
A defect is that the dispatch of normal fax is not still supported by the SIP protocol and it still need the use of a normale telephone line, even if soon, supposedly, the fax will be substituted by the Certified E-mail.

End of VoIP on the PSP

Starting from 31st of march, it will be no more available the Go!Messenger service over the PSP; the cause?

"Although it proved a popular concept, achieving a significant number of registrations, it didn't gain the number of regular users that British Telecom and Sony Computer Entertainment Europe were aiming for."

Currently it seems that there isn't an alternative software to Go!Messenger, we wait for possible future progresses.

Google Voice, Skype™ new rival

In 2007 Google acquired Grand Central and start the Google Voice service to provide VoIP communication services starting from the U.S. to arrive all over the world, Google Voice will be soon available in every country and it will be a new rival of Skype™.
Google Voice will give us free or low cost phone calls and SMS sending from landlines phones and cellphones.

More informations about Google Voice: http://www.grandcentral.com.

If you own a Gmail account, you can also try the new VoIP communication service called Gmail Voice, with high definition audio and video; official site: http://mail.google.com/videochat.