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Skype Toolbars

July 27, 2006
Today Skype announced toolbars for applications like MS office and others. In my humble opinion this is one of the biggest announcements in IP communications as it integrates the largest VoIP community with a plethora of applications that hundreds of millions of people use each day.

As I have said before the ubiquity of IP intersecting with IP communications will allow us to do more and more. What makes me wonder is why this announcement wasn't made first by Vonage.

Vonage needs to be ahead of these guys and if they don't have teams of people trying to out-innovate Skype they are in trouble.

By the way toolbars are not new and VoIP toolbars are not new. Vonexus and Broadsoft are a few of the companies who have integrated toolbars and telecom. Microsoft purchased a company that does this as well but I have to sign off soon and don't have time to look up their name which I forgot. Hopefully one of my super-intelligent readers will comment on the name of the company and perhaps what Microsoft has done with the acquisition.

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Amtrak Acela Power Problems

July 27, 2006
The power on Amtrak Acela trains has been out for weeks meaning you need to charge all your electronics and have spare batteries if you plan on a long trip. They hope to have it fixed in a week and I feel they should be forced to refund half of every fare until they get the problem resolved.

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Kazaa Pays $100 Million

July 27, 2006
Kazaa will be paying record companies $100 million dollars in damages. "Kazaa was an international engine of copyright theft which damaged the whole music sector and hampered our industry's efforts to grow a legitimate digital business," said John Kennedy, head of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), in a statement.

As those of us in the communications space know, Kazaa was developed by Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, the creators of Skype. These guys have to be some of the most press worthy people around -- everything they do seems to turn to gold -- and generate tons of free press.

They have recently set out to revolutionize the world of video distribution as well and one wonders what sort of empire they will build this time around.

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