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Lost in all the hullabaloo about Yahoo this week, Redmond, WA based Microsoft announced the forthcoming Live Messenger. Hat tip to Tom Keating and a few others.

Tom Keating has a post where he ponders if Skype is a possible pipe for porn? I’ve been on the same wavelength and while Tom isn’t so sure, I think it will be now that they’ve added video. Why? Every other video pipe already has some of it and its a great vehicle for sampling. … Read more

Yesterday it was Michael Bazeley in the San Jose Mercury News who quoted me after an 11th hour on deadline chat he had with me. This morning Silicon Beat’s Matt Marshall showed a lot of class, taking some time to find my post, blend in Bazeley’s well written points and add his own spin to … Read more

Erik Lagerway, whose now burning the midnight oil at EyeBall after leaving XTen has posted a round up piece on the Yahoo news of this week. Funny, I don’t think that other than briefings, that Yahoo has announced anything yet. It seems their new platform which some insiders thought would be ready this week, is … Read more

Details are slowly leaking out about Yahoo Messenger’s new features and more importantly pricing. As intimated yesterday the new package goes right down the throats of rival eBay’s Skype offering. Ovum, a UK based telecom analyst firm has take a slightly different spin, questioning Yahoo’s direction. In reading the closing paragraph it seems the author, … Read more

Earlier this week I was part of a group of bloggers who were briefed after the journalists were informed about the upcoming–no official date-release of the next phase of the Diallpad acquisitions integration into Yahoo Messenger and what it means. Yesterday I received a few calls about this from reporters sniffing around. How they knew … Read more

I actually discussed this exact subject last week with Skype USA GM Henry Gomez. Gomez feels eBay’s past and present practices with Adult content will let them manage this type of content. I’m not so sure. The Skype community is global, all ages and encrypted. The fact that it’s encrypted means no one can (or … Read more

In all fairness, Mark Evans started the Skype questioning going. Others, including me, have just picked up the ball. Today the Globe and Mail makes a comment about the current state of affairs.

SunRocket has announced a very low price to gain customers. Less than $10.00 a month. But you get what you pay for. In the past Sun Rocket has had network capacity and infrastructure issues. In fairness to the marketing driven company, those issues were caused more by the lack of capacity on the network side … Read more

Vonage has announced their plans for CES and in the media advisory that went out today indicated that they’ll enable attendees to make free phone calls in 13 phone booths set up throughout the Las Vegas Convention Center (LVCC). Vonage is claiming the “distinction of being the first company to set up phone booths at … Read more