Sunday Night Links
- Skype on your TV. mcePhone brings Pamela and Skype to the Windows Media Center Edition. Screenshots.
- Clarification: France's ban of Skype in the university system "only applies to university research centers and laboratories, and not to the general student and faculty population.."
- The Unwired: Skype for Windows Mobile Pocket PCs moves from 1.2 to 2.0 beta "without adding v2 features." No video. Still No Symbian (Symbian runs on CPUs too slow for Skype, or Skype not optimized for cheaper CPUs?).
- Communications Research Network: Hackers can hypothetically use programmable VoIP to jam servers, PCs, and phone lines. A distributed denial of service attack. The only thing new is an attacker may be harder to trace.
- Vonage starts a SkypeIn service for some Western European countries.
- BT to sell a videophone to its broadband customers for £180 (steep). £6 to £9 an hour for the call. Skype seems an attractive choice.
- Davos:
- Niklas empanelled with Gates, Chambers, Schmidt.
- Eric Pooley: Niklas says Skype has 75 million users. Gates smacks him down (How many are paying?) and Schmidt backs Niklas up (building a brand leads to selling ads or enhanced services.
- Panel highlights podcast.
- Geoff Moore blogs it now comes down to three principles: 1. The core enabling resources of IT are free. 2. Expect digitization of everything. 3. Expect the value proposition of IT to migrate from enabling transactions to enabling interactions.
- Red Herring: "Niklas Zennström, co-founder and chief executive of Skype, said he had meetings planned with incumbent European telecom operators in between conference sessions."
- Niklas goes to the Silicon Valley-meets-Davos party. Also there: Motorola, Deutsche Telekom, T-Mobile, Salesforce.com CEOs, and Laura D. Tyson, dean of the London Business School.
- Loic Le Meur interviews Niklas: podcast.
- 2528 Brandchannel.com readers vote Skype #3 brand in the world. First time nominated.
