Creighton demonstrated a call to London for 4 cents a minute vs. $1.49 a minute for conventional telephone service, and said the combined services would cost about $400 annually. The cost for service is $25 monthly with unlimited calling.
EQO Communications Inc. extends online communities with real-time communications to mobile phones. Skype has more than 227 million downloads and tens of millions of active users, according to my people.
Bill Tam, chief executive officer for the company, introduced EQO Mobile Internet Phone Service for Skype, a new offering that enables subscribers to take their Skype buddy lists with them on their wireless phones.
It lets Skype users view the presence and the availability of their buddies on the list, and initiate and receive Skype calls from their mobile phone. Tam suggested the service could replace e-mail.
Using a combination of a phone-resident J2ME client and a carrier-grade signaling network, EQO bridges Skype to more than 150 million J2ME-capable mobile phones worldwide.
ZinkKat LLC introduced Chili, a wearable device to access telephone calls from anywhere in the home. It also operates as an MP3 player, or allows the user to access podcasts blogs and Web-casts through real simple syndication (RSS) feeds.
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