iSkoot brings Skype to your cellphone

With Skype making its code available to other SPs to provide services over skype, the possibilities of services that can be delivered are many. This has pushed Skype onto a new frontier : Mobile phones.

With a $10 a year software rental charges, iSkoot is offering long distance calls to any Skype user for nothing more than the cost of local air time to dial up from your mobile to your broadband connected home computer.

The idea is similar to making a call through your company's conference bridge or VOIP line or a normal calling card. Just that you'll need to dial into your own computer rather than the conference bridge number or calling card number.

The iSkoot founder, Jacob Guedalia, said his vision was to ''enable the individual to become his own long-distance carrier" by routing calls over a home or office computer connection, instead of AT&T or Sprint.

More worries for telecom companies!!!

The Battle is On

Microsoft has not taken time to respond to Google's Hompage.

Click on the title of this blog or on the links section for the link to their "Start" page, which owes much of its look and feel to the Google homepage. Nothing whatsoever on the page to indicate its a Microsoft page though, but for the small MSN icon on the top corner of your browser window.

Technorati goes Mobile

David Stifry Technorati's CEO informs us in his blog that Technorati has been optimized for mobiles.

For those who can try it out : http://mobile.technorati.com

IPTV

The economist has an article on IPTV - a direction in which most traditional telecom players seem to be moving in.

With major cable firms enticing customers with a "Triple-play bundle" of TV, Broadband and telephony services, Mobile operators and thirdly VOIP providers.

IPTV is the last ditch effort from Telecom providers to stay in the race. There seem to be lots of legal and technical hurdles for now between them and IPTV.

But assuming they do provide users with the required bandwidth, will they be able to ensure that the user is not putting the available bandwidth to buy third party services from other providers.

"If you cant beat them, join them.", thats the strategy some others like the indian Telecom giant VSNL are adopting. VSNL plans to buy Teleglobe, the worlds largest VOIP Provider.

"Every big telecoms firm is investing to migrate from old, circuit-switched networks to new internet-based ones, with Britain's BT probably moving fastest."

With BT, Verizon, SBC all taking their first steps towards IPTV. We should hope to hear and see more of it very soon.

Terms to look out for: NGN, IMS ...

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Now that's really realtime!!!

Had a long lazy weekend. But things continue to move at a hectic pace all around. Its another Manic Monday!!!

Windows : A Long Journey

An awesome site that traces the history of Windows all the way from QDos to Windows Vista.

http://www.levenez.com/windows/history.html#04

And a sneak preview of the Windows Vista..

http://bink.nu/photos/news_article_images/category1012.aspx