news.cnet.com - 2/17/2009
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BARCELONA--Skype is racking up deals with mobile handset makers here at GSMA Mobile World Congress 2009 . On Tuesday, the company, which is owned by eBay, announced a partnership with Nokia, the largest cell phone maker in the world, to put the Skype Internet calling software onto its phones. ...
about.skype.com - 2/17/2009
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about.skype.com —
BARCELONA, February 17, 2009 -- Skype and Nokia
today announced a partnership that will bring the world's...
leading Internet communications experience to the Nokia range of mobile computers. Under the terms of the cooperation, Skype™ will be integrated ...
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Skype and Nokia partner to integrate Skype into Nokia ...
sonyericsson.com - 2/17/2009
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sonyericsson.com —
On the Road panels introduced for the Xperia
X1 16 February 2009 Sony Ericsson unveils latest panels...
for Xperia X1 offering further opportunities for consumers to personalise the device with the content they want most. The new panels add to those ...
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New CNN, Skype, Mytopia and ‘On the Road’ ...
theregister.co.uk - 2/18/2009
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theregister.co.uk —
and Mozilla have thrown their weight behind the
Electronic Frontier Foundation ( EFF ) in that digital-freedom...
organization's fight to loosen the Digital Millenium Copyright Act's ( DMCA ) restrictions on iPhone jailbreaking. In separate filings with ...
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Mozilla, Skype join iPhone jailbreak fight • The Register
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Outside the U.S., Skype Makes Handset Inroads [jkOnTheRun]
GigaOM Network —
... Webware makes the excellent point that here in the U.S., Skype embedded this much into handsets will face a challenge. Not from consumers, but from the carriers already scrapping for whatever market share they can grab and keep. The two handsets mentioned, Nokia’s N97 and Sony Ericsson’s Xperia X1, will sell far more units outside of the U.S., so both make excellent choices for Skype to move beyond a simple voice add-on. And if you had any hopes of a U.S. carrier ever subsidizing either of these high-end handsets, you’re likely to ...
Skype Phones: Is This Just Fantasy?
dailywireless.org —
... Skype will pre-load its software on Nokia’s N97 handsets. Meanwhile, Sony Ericsson announced it would be offering a Skype “panel” on the Windows Mobile Xperia1 device (right).
This is seen as a threat ...
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Nokia to preinstall Skype on handsets —
The Register 2/17/2009
Operators not sufficiently pissed off yet Nokia is pre-installing a Skype client on the flagship N97 handset, being launched in June, allowing users to make VoIP calls without paying a penny to the network operator who is still expected to ...