Monday afternoon
- Knowing Skype and its competitors may earn you the Product Manager – Mobile Instant Messaging job at Verizon.
- VoIP News: Phil Wolff Talks Skypenomics at the O'Reilly Emerging Telephony Conference includes a few highlights.
- YASP (Yet another soft phone): voipstunt.
- Chinagate-Skype, for the Chinese diaspora. Jaanus' post on the new portal partnership. Smart alliance; helping families and commerce that cross the globe stay connected.
- BT's Broadband Voice outage for a few hours this week. What uptime constitutes phone replacement?
- Nuvvo shows SkypeWeb presence for teachers and students in their learning community. Now they're waiting for SkypeWeb to be rolled into an update of Skype 2.0.
- Warner Music Group (WMG) will sell ringtones through Skype. Skype still doesn't offer the ability to tailor ringtones to a caller, a group of callers, or to the time of day/day of week. So I don't know how the whole ringtone thing is. In addition, nearly all Skypers use PCs, so they get visual cues, making ringtones less useful. For the 40% of us who use Skype in the workplace, "Like a Virgin" is sure to make us popular among our colleagues. This follows Warner's general model for licensing music samples to mobile carriers. Are these licensed to all Skype users or just to those living in countries where copyright is enforceable?
Comments
Congratulations on the Skype – Warner Music licensing agreement. I would like Skype to consider adding Endtone disconnect tones to the ringtone offering. Endtone disconnect tones are an excellent compliment to the ringtone offering and represent potentially significant Skype - Warner Music revenue stream opportunities.
What are Endtone disconnect tones?
We all know about ringtones when you have an incoming call. But what happens when a call is over? Not much. In fact, nothing. Endtones change all of that. Endtones notify users when phone calls are over – or when calls are accidentally dropped. Just like ringtones, Endtones are easily downloaded. Music, voices, sounds and video are all Endtone options. Endtone’s patent pending services are natural additions to ringtones and ringbacks and provide users with quick, easy and inexpensive ways to personalize their devices.
Posted by: Brock Muir | January 30, 2006 01:08 PM
Voipstunt is just the n-th version of Voipbuster...
They all belong to betamax, which is related to finarea. And according to recent posts in this forum (french language.. sorry http://www.telephoner.free.fr/support_technique.htm ) the scheme is the same.. with some phone numbers unreachables, depending on the operator of the subscriber who tries to call them, and basic fee evolving from 5 to 10 €.
Posted by: Phil | January 31, 2006 04:25 AM