It looks like Russia won’t be banning Skype or Gmail, after all. The Kremlin was reportedly considering blocking both services, along with Hotmail, in response to a major cyberattack that crippled the country’s most popular blog and an independent news site. Some within the Kremlin had believed the services posed a major threat to national security, but some critics had thought the government may have just been looking for an excuse to tighten its control over the Web — ahead of December’s parliamentary elections and next year’s presidential race.

source: AP/HuffPost

Millions of people around the globe including Pakistan continue to get affected by an outage at the free internet phone service Skype.

Users from Japan, Europe and the US all reported problems, which started at around 2030 GMT on 22 December.

The company said the fault had been caused by critical parts of its network being taken offline.

It is estimated that Skype was losing around half of its daily 20 million calls, when the problem first occurred.

A spokesperson for the firm confirmed the problem was ongoing but could not say how many customers were affected.

In a post the firm said that the problem had been caused by a series of supernode failures. These “act a bit like phone directories”, the firm said, routing traffic between users.

“If you want to talk to someone, and your Skype app can’t find them immediately (for example, because they’re connecting from a different location or from a different device) your computer or phone will first try to find a supernode to figure out how to reach them,” it read.

“Under normal circumstances, there are a large number of supernodes available. Unfortunately, today, many of them were taken offline by a problem affecting some versions of Skype.”

This may take a few hours, and we sincerely apologise for the disruption to your conversations. Some features, like group video calling, may take longer to return to normal.

Skype is is one of the key applications of the modern world and any disturbance affects millions of life

Nokia N900 Maemo 5 Bakes in Skype

The new Maemo 5 software in the Nokia N900 has some surprises, including Skype baked into the operating system. Sweet! This will allow you to make free calls using the uber-gadgety Nokia N900.

What else is new? Well Maemo 5 will update over-the-air (OTA), so no more connecting to a PC just to do a software update. It also sports a 5MP camera with Carl Zeiss optics for a high-quality camera that iPhone users could only dream about. You can also zoo, crop, remove red eye and more on the Nokia N900.

The Nokia N900 is Linux-based and so it feature a full-fledged browser that is more powerful than your typical mobile browser. For instance, it can play YouTube and other Flash videos in the webpage without having to launch a separate player like the iPhone has to do.

Within the Skype application you’ll notice that your Skype contacts appear with their online status in the Nokia N900 address book. You can call, or IM over 3G and WiFi. Previous calls and instant messages on Skype appear in your conversation history. Smilies and other emoticons are supported in IM.

Some highlighted specifications:
3.5 inch touch-sensitive widescreen display
800 × 480 pixel resolution
Bluetooth v2.1 including support for stereo headsets
Integrated FM transmitter
Integrated GPS with A-GPS
Up to 1GB of application memory (256 MB RAM, 768 MB virtual memory)
Wide aspect ratio 16:9 (WVGA)
Video recording file format: .mp4; codec: MPEG-4
Video recording at up to 848 × 480 pixels (WVGA) and up to 25fps
Video playback file formats: .mp4, .avi, .wmv, .3gp; codecs: H.264, MPEG-4, Xvid, WMV, H.263

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