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2010 is shaping up to be a good year for Skype. A few weeks back, spokesperson Peter Parkes confirmed the company’s VoIP iPhone App would soon be able to access AT&T’s 3G network. Now it appears Skype could be making its way to Verizon’s network.

Verizon issued a statement on Friday announcing a joint news conference with Skype on February 16 at the 2010 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. John Stratton, executive vice president and chief executive officer of Verizon Wireless, and Josh Silverman, chief executive officer of Skype, will both speak.

Word of a joint announcement by the two companies might not be enough to conclude that Verizon will give Skype access to “America’s largest 3G network,” but Business Week is reporting that is the case. “Two people familiar with the matter,” confirmed Verizon plans to include 3G Skype software compete with AT&T, according to the magazine.

Skype started working on a 3G iPhone app after the upgraded SDK for the iPad removed restrictions for calling over 3G. If Verizon has been directly working with Skype, it could mean Verizon smartphones (ahem, Moto Droid) could get a jump on the iPhone version, which is still in development. (A Wi-Fi version is available.)

Skype has been seeking access to wireless networks for the past several years. In 2007 the company petitioned the FCC to open mobile networks to third-party applications. A year later, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin said approving Skype’s petition would be “premature” since carriers were voluntarily taking steps to open their networks. He then urged other commissioners to dismiss the petition.

If Verizon is allowing Skype to operate over 3G, the development would be a huge milestone for Skype.

Here’s the coment from Parkes; watch for PC World’s coverage of the Skype-Verizon announcement and more news from the Mobile World Congress.

Twenty-four telecom operators have formed an alliance to build an open platform that will deliver applications to all mobile phone users in an effort to compete with Apple’s successful apps store.

The move is supported by three of the world’s largest device makers — LG Electronics, Samsung and Sony Ericsson the telecoms industry body GSM Association said on Monday at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

AT&T, Bharti Airtel, China Mobile, MTN Group, NTT DoCoMo, Orange, Orascom Telecom, Telefonica and Vodafone are among those who have agreed to the initiative, the GSMA said.

Together these operators have access to over three billion customers around the world, the GSMA said, adding the plan would help reduce fragmentation in the industry.

In a first step, “the alliance will seek to unite members’ developer communities and create a single, harmonized point of entry to make it easy for developers to join,” the GSMA said.

EDITOR: During the next three to five years, the international Internet system will evolve to the new IPV6 protocol standard, which will provide a quantum leap in comprehensive Internet capabilities. This will affect defense, economic prosperity, communications and sharing of information within nations and internationally, as well as daily household integration of hi tech systems. The current IPV4 system was developed and funded entirely by the United States Government and US private companies [using substantial US Government funds]. Whoever leads the development and deployment of IPV6 will, in fact, have a dominant role in being the architect and “toll keeper” of the rapidly growing international information superhighway.

The national security and economic stability of the United States has been based on control of the first generation of Internet communication technologies. Today, Asian countries have surpassed the United States in development and use of the next generation of Internet Protocol. Although Japan, Korea and Europe have joined with the United States in International Summits to set new Internet standards, China is secretly and substantially developing its own IPV6 infrastructure and solutions.

Beijing is taking advantage of technologies and investment from America and its allies. The concern of international economists, human rights advocates and defense experts is that Beijing will use its political and economic leverage in many areas of the developing world to eventually dominate new Internet standards, imbued with the repressive nature of its own non-democratic regime. In addition, whoever controls the distribution of the technologies related to the IPV6 will have the ability to monitor and block information, disrupt communications and, in a time of conflict, shut down entire IT systems vital to a nation’s economy and defense.

IPV6, THE NEW INTERNET: The dominant edge of America’s economic, communications and military leadership is based on a national investment made 50 years ago to create what became today’s global Internet communications systems. At a June 28, 2005 testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Government Reform, Alex Lightman, CEO of IPV6 Summit, stated, “…some $9 trillion out of America’s $13 million economy is related to IT services, subscriptions and transactions… It is also responsible for the creation of millions of American jobs… And it is the backbone of thousands of products and services vital to the national defense and homeland security systems.”

Today, the US Government is investing a mere fraction of what Japan, Korea, China and Europe are investing into developing the New Internet IPV6 protocol. Each nation’s IT standards reflect their own political and economic priorities. A repressive government’s priorities are ultimately in contradiction with democratic openness necessary for international peace and prosperity. Thus far, the Defense Department is the only US federal agency showing incentive in New Internet competitiveness. But DOD, worn down by interventions in the Middle East and elsewhere, has a mere fraction of the funding needed to maintain an edge over America’s competitors and adversaries.

CHINA’s INTERNET LEAP FORWARD: Since 1994, China has emerged from practically no public Internet usage to become the world’s second largest [after the United States] Internet population. Within two years, in 2007, China is expected to pass Japan as the world’s largest IPV6 user. Meanwhile, the US Internet market is dominated by the rapidly out-of- date IPV4 standard model. IPV6 is increasingly dominant in Japan and Korea. Meanwhile, non- democratic China has refused to join a global coalition. Instead, Beijing is quietly and steady developing hardware and software in preparing to take the lead in providing IPV6, not only for its own economic and military modernization but also to protect the Communist Party’s repressive dominance against its own citizens. Beijing can also use its political and economic leverage and advances in Internet censorship to protect dictators in developing countries across the world. More critically, as a component of “asymmetrical” electronic warfare, a country whose companies control and manage IPV6 technology can shut down entire IT systems.

THE CENSORSHIP “GOLDEN SHIELD” China has effectively “sanitized” its domestic Internet through extensive sophisticated on-line monitoring and censorship systems. This has been done with the willing assistance of high-profile US companies who seek greater play in the Chinese Government controlled market. Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society reports that China’s Internet censorship regime is “the most sophisticated in the world.” An Amnesty International investigation found that through early 2005, at least 54 persons were imprisoned for distributing “illegal” information through the Net.

A new Chinese Government high-tech surveillance project called “Golden Shield,” has been under development for the past five years. US companies have flaunted the post-Tiananmen Square Massacre law that bans selling “crime control and detection” equipment to China, writes Anne Applebaum in the July 21, 2005 Washington Post. According to numerous press reports, American companies like Yahoo have signed a “public pledge of self-discipline” to abide by China Net censorship regime. Cisco Systems has reportedly sold technologies to Chinese internal security agencies that block admission to Web sites unfavorable to China’s ruling minority, as well as certain material on sites otherwise accessible. And reportedly, Microsoft has altered the Chinese version of its blog tool, MSN Spaces, at the insistence of Communist information censors. The Orwellian collaboration between US companies and China’s Internet censors can dramatically alter IPV6 standards and significantly degrade the free flow of information essential for international peace and prosperity.

Now that the aughts are behind us, we can start the new decade with a bang. So many new technologies are ready to make a big impact this year. Some of them will be brand new, but many have been gestating and are now ready to hatch. If there is any theme here it is the mobile Web. As I think through the top ten technologies that will rock 2010, more than half of them are mobile. But those technologies are tied to advances in the overall Web as well.

Below is my list of the ten technologies that will leave the biggest marks on 2010:

1. The Tablet: It’s the most anticipated product of the year. The mythical tablet computer (which everyone seems to be working on). There are beautiful Android tablets, concept tablets, and, of course, the one tablet which could define the category, the Apple Tablet. Or iSlate or whatever it’s called. If Steve Jobs is not working on a tablet, he’d better come up with one because anything else will be a huge disappointment.Why do we need yet another computer in between a laptop and an iPhone? We won’t really know until we have it. But the answer lies in the fact that increasingly the Web is all you need. As all of our apps and data and social lives move to the Web, the Tablet is the incarnation of the Web in device form, stripped down to its essentials. It will also be a superior e-reader for digital books, newspapers, and magazines, and a portable Web TV.

2. Geo: The combination of GPS chips in mobile phones, social networks, and increasingly innovative mobile apps means that geolocation is increasingly becoming a necessary feature for any killer app. I’m not just talking about social broadcasting apps like Foursquare and Gowalla. The advent of Geo APIs from Twitter , SimpleGeo, and hopefully Facebook will change the game by adding rich layers of geo-related data to all sorts of apps. Twitter just recently launched its own Geo API for Twitter apps and acquired Mixer Labs, which created the GeoAPI.

3. Realtime Search: After licensing realtime data streams from Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, and others, Google and Bing are quickly ramping up their realtime search. But realtime search is still treated as a silo, and is not regularly surfaced in the main search results page. In 2010, I expect that to change as the search engines learn for what types of searches it makes sense to show Tweets and other realtime updates. In the meantime, a gaggle of realtime search startups such as Collecta, OneRiot, and Topsy will continue to push the ball forward on the realtime search experience. Realtime search will also become a form of navigation, especially on Twitter and Facebook. The key will be to combine realtime search with realtime filters so that people are delivered not only the most recent information but the most relevant and authoritative as well.

4. Chrome OS: In November, Google gave the world a sneak peek at its Chrome operating system, which is expected to be released later this year. The Chrome OS is Google’s most direct attack on Windows with an OS built from the ground up to run Web apps fast and furious. Already a Google is rumored to be working on a Chrome Netbook which will show the world what is possible with it a “Web OS.” It sounds like it would be perfect for Tablet computers also (see above). Chrome is a risky bet for Google, but it is also potentially disruptive.

5. HTML5: The Web is built on HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) and the next version which has been taking form for a while is HTML5. Already browsers such as Firefox and Google’s Chrome (the browser, not the OS) are HTML5-friendly. Once HTML5 becomes more widespread across the Web, it will reduce the need for Flash or Silverlight plug-ins to view videos, animations, or other rich applications. They will all just be Web-native. HTML5 also supports offline data storage, drag-and-drop, and other features which can make Web apps act more like desktop apps. A lot of Websites will be putting HTML5 under the hood in 2010.

6. Mobile Video: With video cameras integrated into the latest iPhone 3GS and other Web phones, live video streaming apps are becoming more commonplace—both streaming from phones and to them. As mobile data networks beef up their 3G bandwidth and even start to tiptoe into true broadband with 4G (which Verizon is heading towards with its next-gen LTE network), mobile video usage will take off.

7. Augmented Reality: One of the coolest ways to use the camera lens on a mobile phone is with the increasing array of augmented reality apps. They add a layer of data to reality by placing everything from photos to Tweets to business listings directly on top of the live live image captured by the camera. Tonchidot’s Sekai Camera, Layar, GraffitiGeo and even Yelp are examples of augmented reality apps.

8. Mobile Transactions: As mobile phones become full-fledged computers, they can be used for mobile commerce also. One area poised to take off in 2010 are mobile payments and transactions. Twitter founder Jack Dorsey’s latest startup Square turns the iPhone into a credit card reader. Verifone has its competing product, as does Mophie. The idea is that any mobile phone can become a point of sale, and those mobile transactions can tie into back-end accounting, CRM, and other enterprise systems.

9. Android: Last year saw the launch of nearly two dozen Android-powered phones, including the Verizon Droid. In a few days, Google’s Nexus One will launch as the first Android phone which can be unlocked from any given carrier (it is launching with T-Mobile). Android is Google’s answer to the iPhone, and as it reaches critical mass across multiple carriers and handsets it is becoming increasingly attractive to developers. There are already more than 10,000 apps on Android, next year there will be even more. And other devices running on the mobile OS are launching as well.

10. Social CRM: We’ve seen the rise of Twitter and Facebook as social communication tools. This year, those modes of realtime communication will find their way deeper into the enterprise. Salesforce.com is set to launch Chatter, it’s realtime stream of enterprise data which interfaces with Twitter and Facebook and turn them into business tools. Startups like Yammer and Bantam Live are also making business more social.

The term for the teenagers who listen emocore is emo kids. The society thinks about them as failures; they are not strong enough to hide their emotions, they’re sensitive, shy, introverted, and often quiet. Usually, Emo kids like to express their feeling writing poems about their problems with depression, confusion, and anger; all because the world fails to understand them. Emo poetry uses a combination of any of: a highly emotional tone, stream of consciousness writing, a simple (ABAB) or nonexistent rhyme scheme, references to the flesh, especially the heart, heavy use of dark or depressing adjectives, and concern over the mutability of time, love or both. Themes such as life is pain are common. You can check some ‘emo poems’ on our forum! Altough life is already very hard for them, emo kids have to suffer for even more society prosecution because of their condition. The term ‘emo’ itself is used nowadays as an insult. Adressed to a person means they are ‘overly emotional’. Emocore is compared with pop boy bands of 1990s. Critics cast the music as lacking any artistic merit and that the fashion is just … a fashion used to drive girls attention. The ones who are emo not because they feel it, but because they like to be trendy are named ‘posers’. A big percent of the current emo subculture is formed by posers. Emo subculture is acused that it is celebrating self-harm. As i’ve said before many fail to understand that those are only fake emos (rawrr you bastards, get away from here); actually i have no rights to judge them even if most of us suffer because of them.

The term “Emo” is used as counterculture; it is an abreviation of the word “emotional”. Emo it’s defining not only an attitude, but also a fashion that are coming from emocore (emo music). Emocore is a combination between hardcore and punk music which was very popular in Washington DC in the late 80’s. The emo culture continued to develop between ‘90 and ‘00, reaching the height of its popularity today.

Emo is a genre of rock music which appears to fall somewhere between Goth and grunge on the post-punk rock spectrum. Although there is a significant amount of disagreement on this subject, the term “emo” is said to be short for “emotive punk”, a successor to straight-edge punk rock originating in the late 1980s. Other sources say that emo is short for “emocore,” an emotionally charged form of softcore punk which started in the Washington, DC area during the mid-1980s. Emo music is definitely derived from the anarchic punk sound, but is often described as the flipside of the grunge sound originating in Seattle.

To understand emo, it might help to start from the beginning. First there was hardcore punk, an anarchic and energetic form of music that provided an alternative to disco and heavily produced pop music of the early 1980s. By the mid-1980s, however, many of the hardcore punk bands had disbanded or changed directions musically. This left a very large hole for local hardcore or alternative bands to fill. Some bands developed an edgier style of playing the same three power chords as original punk, but with the addition of philosophical or angst-ridden lyrics sung in a more emotional style than straight punk rock. This became known as emotive punk, or emo for short.

While emo worked its way from the Washington, DC area westward, other groups in Seattle were exploring essentially the same musical territory. Emo bands became popular in the San Francisco Bay area about the same time that grunge rock bands took over the Seattle music scene. While grunge rock performers and fans adopted a scruffy, unwashed image, emo performers and their fans often wore heavy eye makeup, dyed their hair jet black and adopted a more metrosexual look. Eventually, the emo and grunge genres became uncomfortably linked together in record stores and music industry publications.

While grunge enjoyed a brief but memorable period of time on the pop charts, emo bands tried very hard to remain non-commercial. This aversion to all things commercial is a hallmark of the emo music scene. Emo albums are often recorded on cheap vinyl LPs using vintage or secondhand recording equipment. Emo musicians use tube-based amplifiers and inexpensive guitars, not solid state amps or tricked-out modern electric guitars. Emo performers have been known to stage extended jam sessions ending with real emotional outbursts, such as sobbing or primal screaming onstage. Emo fans appreciate the honesty and rawness of the bands’ emotional performances.