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In recent years, consumers electronics and telecommunication companies had been trying to bring gamers into their mobile phone business. This was done either by implementing games into their mobile devices. Here is a twist to that old convention, Sony had teamed up with Ebay’s Skype division to bring you VOIP on your PSP. It is confirmed that mobiles gamers can now transform their PSP into mobile communication device. PSP owners can download the firmware update as well as an application that allow them to make free PSP to PSP and PSP to PC calls via wifi; or they could sign up for Skype VOIP service to make it their own landline. The application will allows users to ultilize Skype’s service as well as other new features on a PSP.

This is great news for gamers since now they can just carry one essential device on the go and still be able to connect with their family and friends. As a down side with most VOIP, the signal strength will be limited by their connection bandwidth, this might be a drag since you need a wifi hotspot in order to make a phonecall. Hopefully, Sony will partner with various other telecommunication companies to allow users to use their PSP just like a mobile phone. Until then, making a call is as essential as finding a good wifi hotspot.

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Ad-supported music streaming site had finally signed a deal with the fourth and final major label, Universal Music Group, to make its entire digital catalog available for free to its members. Music from EMI, Warner Music, and Sony-BMG is already available on the music social network for awhile now. This makes imeem the first social network to have a complete library of full-length music streams from all four labels. In addition to music from independent labels, imeem now has about 5 million songs that its users can listen to, comparing to 6 million that iTunes has, but available for free. Now, the big experiment can finally begins … ad-supported vs. pay for play … what revenue generating model will win out in the end.