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NewsFring announced native VoIP application for iPhone
Israeli company Fring has introduced the first native, true VoIP application for the iPhone. The application doesn't require users to route their calls through an analog VoIP bridge, like previous Read more...
Is 3 UK moving toward a bit-pipe model?
Kevin Russel, CEO of 3 UK, which has taken the open access model to heart by opening up its network to any application, has reset the company's business objectives by stating there will be less Read more...
FCC denies Skype's Carterphone petition
During Tuesday's keynote address at the CTIA show, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin drew applause from the audience when he announced that the commission was going to deny Skype's petition to apply the Read more...
Skype asks where are all the WiMAX devices?
For Gareth O'Loughlin, Skype's general manager of mobile and hardware devices, this year's Mobile World Congress show has looked to meet the challenge of bringing the Internet experience to the Read more...
U.S. Treasury to make big on 700 MHz auction
After 26 rounds of bidding, the 700 MHz auction has brought in more than $18 billion in provisionally winning bids, a total that exceeded FCC expectations. Originally, the FCC expected total winning Read more...
Amazon's Kindle first test of open access in U.S.
Chalk one up for Sprint Nextel, which isn't waiting for its WiMAX network to roll out to begin experimenting with the whole concept of open access. Amazon is distributing a new eBook device, called Read more...
U.K.'s 3 and Skype introduce 3 Skypephone
As expected, 3 Group in the U.K. and Skype introduced an inexpensive, co-branded VoIP device called 3 Skypephone. 3 has Read more...
3 Mobile and Skype collaborate on VoIP phone
U.K. operator 3 Mobile, which shocked the industry last November by embarking on an open Internet Read more...
BT invests in FON
BT has invested in Spanish wireless startup FON, which aims to blanket the world in free WiFi hotspots. Now, BT's more than 3 million Total Broadband customers will be able to join the FON WiFi Read more...
3 to come to U.K. market with cheap HSDPA
We may actually see a wireless broadband pricing war in the U.K. Unstrung reports that U.K. operator 3 plans to shake up the industry next month when it launches HSDPA with speeds up to 2.8 Read more...
| Press ReleasesRaketu Extends Free International Calling and Free SMS-Texting With No Monthly Fee -- Unlike Services Offered by SkypeNEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire - May 12, 2008) - Raketu, a leading global
Internet communications, information, entertainment, and social
networking company, today announced that the company will extend Read more... Skype Tests Software for Mass-Market Mobile Phones LUXEMBOURG, April 24, 2008 – Following recent moves to extend Skype™ conversations to a wide variety of new mobile and wireless devices, Skype is taking another major step Read more... eBay Inc. Appoints New CEOs of Skype and Shopping.com San Jose, CA, Feb. 25, 2008 – eBay Inc. today announced that it has named Josh Silverman the Chief Executive Officer of Skype. Silverman, currently CEO of Shopping.com, an Read more... 3 SKYPEPHONE DELIVERS FREE SKYPE TO SKYPE 29th October 2007 – Skype, the global Internet communications company and 3, the mobile operator, have launched a new affordable Read more... MySpace and Skype Announce Partnership Bringing Free Internet Voice Communications to MySpace Global Community LOS ANGELES/LUXEMBOURG, October 17, 2007 — MySpace, the world’s most popular social network, and Skype, the leading Internet communications company, today announced a partnership to empower the MySpace community with voice communications. With more than 110 million monthly active MySpace users and 220 million Skype™ registered users around the world, this partnership connects two of the most popular communications platforms on the Internet to create the world’s largest online, voice-connected community. The announcement unveils MySpaceIM with Skype, a new product that integrates Read more... |