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Skype has introduced a new application directory services to help users get Skype-based application program interface (API) developed by various third-party applications.

Currently, Skype Web site also features the service is very simple, but Skype has been based on type of consumer and enterprise applications have been classified in these types of applications including telephone records, video and desktop sharing. In addition, Skype also lists the ranking of various types of downloads of free and paid applications, evaluation of the best applications, and the latest applications. Currently, Skype is recording applications VodBurner most downloaded applications.

Each application for, Skype provide a detailed page that introduces the application of more information, including release dates, ratings and reviews, features, hardware requirements, and screenshots and so on. If you choose to download the application, Skype users will turn to the landing page development. Skype users can also be based on price, language, keywords, and operating system options to search for applications.

VodBurner founder and CEO Jeremy Hague said on Skype, allowing users to rate and comment on the application is a new service that will help developers to promote the application, so developers benefit. He also said that Skype had not provided a good way to release third-party applications.

In addition, Skype will be the client to the user application. In the latest Windows version of Skype, the user can view the application directory. Skype in the past not very friendly to developers, the launch of the directory service is an important step for improvement. The industry believes that, Skype launched the service may be subject to Microsoft’s influence. Microsoft had previously announced the acquisition of Skype.

Recently Google announced that its troops serving overseas free GMail phone call back to the U.S. to listen to the voice of family services, as long as around the world. Mil e-mail address to write to the end of the Google GMail account can be realized in the voice and video phone calls, the VoIP service was originally to fight back to the U.S. from overseas need to 2 cents / minute, but for the service of the U.S. at least to the end of the year is free.

Cisco Systems will cut about 6,500 jobs as part of an effort to focus its business and reduce operating expenses by US$1 billion per year, the company announced Monday.

The layoffs will eliminate about 9 percent of Cisco’s regular, full-time workforce. In the ranks of vice president and above, Cisco said it will cut 15 percent of employees.

The cuts will be made across all functions in the company. Of the 6,500 employees, 2,100 will take early retirement under a voluntary program Cisco announced in April.

The company will incur about $1.3 billion in one-time costs for the layoffs, from items such as severance and termination benefits. Those costs will be incurred over several upcoming quarters. Cisco expects to recognize $750 million of the charges in the fourth quarter of this year, including $500 million for early retirement, and the remainder in 2012.

Affected employees in the U.S., Canada and some other countries will be notified in the first week of August. Notifications will occur later in other areas, in accordance with local laws, the company said.

Also on Monday, Cisco announced it will transfer a set-top-box manufacturing facility in Mexico to Taiwan-based contract manufacturer Foxconn. No jobs will be lost in that transaction, but about 5,000 Cisco employees will be transferred to Foxconn.

Cisco is taking drastic efforts to cut costs and return its focus to its core routing and switching businesses after posting disappointing results and watching its stock fall over the past several quarters. Chairman and CEO John Chambers called for widespread changes in an internal memo earlier this year. In April, the company said it would close down its Flip video division and fold its Umi consumer video systems into the enterprise telepresence business.

By the time of its third-quarter financial report in May, when it posted an 11 percent decline in profit, Cisco had cut its growth forecast and announced it would eliminate jobs.

In after-hours trading Monday, Cisco’s share price was stable after falling $0.15 to $15.44 during normal trading hours. Over the past 12 months, the company’s stock has fallen by nearly one-third, from $22.73 last July 19.

Microsoft seems to be willing to officially unveil web service that allows users to share and store data even after their mobile phones.

Still, cell phones, of course, with Microsoft Windows Mobile 6-based smartphone operating system. And the service is to begin in a limited beta is available.

Details of the next my phone service was intended, not Microsoft, if the site was launched before the scheduled start of life. The site seems to have first spotted by Engadget Mobile, also spoke at the service of the SkyBox. Continue reading “Microsoft readying My Phone cloud service”