China: the iPhone helps mother and daughter to find after five long years!

The Loop contains a very touching story that has had as one of its protagonists the iPhone. Thanks to the iPhone by, in fact, it was possible for a mother and her daughter meet again after five long years.


The story of The Loop, and reported by various international magazines, takes place in China and starring an elderly lady who for the past five years has not heard from her daughter.
She sees and stops at first a passerby who used an iPad asking him to take a picture and post it online so that his daughter can recognize and understand in what place it is. Unfortunately, this turns out to be an iPad WiFi-only model and is therefore unable to connect to the Internet without the presence of a wireless network.
And here comes the iPhone. Realizing he can not satisfy the request of the woman pulls through his iPhone from his pocket 4, in this case with 3G connectivity, and shall take a picture and post it on the lady Weibo (Chinese alternative to Twitter).
After 5 years, retweets 100.00 (shares) and three days of intense searching, mother and daughter were reunited at last been able to act, even (perhaps especially) with iPhone!
Via – RazorianFly

Facebook Launching Skype Powered Video Chat On Wednesday

Just yesterday, We had reported that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg had revealed that the company was planning to launch something awesome next week. Well, according to sources, it turns out that Facebook is all set to launch its new in-browser Skype powered video chat facility next week.

This partnership with Facebook might be beneficial for Skype as well, which is now a Microsoft owned property. Since we know that Microsoft isn't in the online social networking game, they won't really have any objections with Skype forming a partnership with Facebook and one shouldn't forget the fact that Microsoft is a shareholder in Facebook.

Many analysts believe that Facebook's "something awesome" would be related to the mobile or tablet arena including the release of a long-awaited Facebook app for iPad and a dedicated app for photo-sharing on the iPhone. However, it turns out that its going to be completely different. Partnering with Skype, Facebook will now bring in-brower video chat for its over 750 million users.

Facebook has also posted a job opening requiring the services of a software developer to make desktop applications for Windows and Mac. Does this mean that Facebook wants to make a debut in desktop based video chatting solution as well? With Skype already dominating that, how does Facebook plan to do that whilst being in partnership with Skype itself?

All of these questions will be answered, come Wednesday. We'll be sure to update you with all the details regarding Facebook's new service, right here.