Skype loses sleep over Apple

Skype is worried about whether the iPhone and other Apple products will undermine its VOIP services, reports Bloomberg Businessweek.

According to the company's filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, Skype is also insecure about whether it can achieve service levels good enough to lure business customers.

"For example," Skype says, "although our application for the Apple iPad, iPhone and iTouch is currently enabled to make voice communications over 3G networks, Apple or its carrier partners may choose to alter the terms of inclusion in its application store.

Google has rolled out an application that lets people use voice commands to have Android-based smartphones do tasks such as send email or fetch driving directions, notes AFP.

The Voice Actions program will only work on handsets running on the latest Android 2.2 software, referred to as Froyo.

"Voice Actions are a series of spoken commands that let you control your phone using your voice," Google product manager Hugo Barra and engineering manager Dave Burke said in a blog.

Zimbra is taking its e-mail, messaging and collaboration suite embedded appliance to VMware's channel organisation - effectively growing from just 1 000 channel partners to 25 000 overnight, states Channel Insider.

The move follows VMware's acquisition of the corporate cloud e-mail and collaboration vendor from Yahoo earlier this year, and poses an even more serious threat to entrenched players such as Microsoft with its Exchange e-mail and collaboration.

Zimbra is a direct competitor to Microsoft's Exchange e-mail.