Skype has just released the gold version of Skype 4.0 for Windows. For those of you who may not know yet. Skype is a way people communicate around the world. Skype has more than 405 million registered users globally who use Skype software to communicate for free through voice and video calls as well as instant messages. Skype generates revenue through its premium offerings, such as calls made to and from landlines and mobiles, voicemail, call forwarding, and SMS. Conversations over Skype can take place on computers, mobile devices and Skype Certified™ hardware.

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Instant messaging on mobile phones is getting more and more popular with the continuing focus of mobile network providers to encourage people to use their cell phones to connect to the Internet. I have checked out some of the available instant messaging software applications that you can install on your mobile phone so that you can communicate with your online buddies, friends and family.

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I’ve finally gotten Uzzap to work. It turned out that my registration to Smart Uzzap failed and wasn’t saved to the Smart Uzzap server. I’ve re-registered and finally gotten to login.

The first thing that I noticed upon logging into the Uzzap service was that it was more responsive than the Globe Unlichat service. One reason may because I’m using Uzzap via a wifi connection (you can only use a mobile phone network with Globe’s Unlichat).

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If you’ve listen to the news lately about the current move of the Senate to “solicit” 10% of the Telcos’ earnings from text messages, you’d probably notice that the current estimate for SMS messages in the Philippines is about 2 billion SMS messages daily (that’s daily!).

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This post should have been “A look into the Smart’s Uzzap and Globe’s Unlichat” but after several attempts at getting Smart’s Uzzap application installed on my mobile phone I’ve just given up on using it. I’ve gotten to the point that after several attempts I was able to install the software but I just couldn’t login in. I hope you had better luck than I did. It would have been nice to see how they paired up on their Instant Messaging services.

Downloading of the Globe Unlichat application happened with actually no frills. I went to the unlichat web page, typed my mobile phone number. Globe sent me a link for the application download and I got the application installed on my mobile phone in no time. The application doesn’t seem to work over wifi if you have a wifi-equipped mobile phone. You’ll have to use the Globe network to use it.

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Skype, a VOIP and instant messaging application, has just released J2ME versions of their software application for several mobile phones. Skype for your mobile is currently under beta and available for several Nokia, Samsung, Motorola and Sony Ericsson mobile phones. I’ve downloaded and tried it on my Nokia phone.

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Nowadays, it’s pretty easy to get in touch with your friends and family. An Internet connection, a computer and your favorite instant messaging application should be all you need to keep in touch. But what if you’re out of the house or office. I found out that I can still be able to chat with them using my mobile phone using a Java mobile application like the one from gizmo5.

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