Skype ’s Jonathan Rosenberg is speaking at eComm on Monday (11:15am). He’s one of Skype’s thought leaders, the company’s Chief Technology Strategist. I was really hoping he’d announce how Skype will play in ViPR land. His talk blurb goes in another direction : Social Sharing 2.0: The Rise of Real-Time. Social sharing through sites like Facebook and Twitter has seen meteoric rise in the last year. Exciting as that... 

Verizon ’s go-to-market teams had Skype in place last week. Employees were oriented. Six months’ ago these same employees had never tried Skype. Now they know a few talking points. Demo Blackberry and Android phones had Skype installed and easy to find Local test accounts with contacts were created for each demo phone Information cards for the phones were updated with Skype listed as a feature of each phone (right above Bluetooth!)... 

Here’s the Say It Visually! whiteboard guide to Skype mobile on Verizon Wireless phones. Positioned as freeing you from your PC (the way, um, mobile phones do). Bonus points for unlimited Skype-to-Skype calling from your phone with your flat rate Verizon data plan. On YouTube . tags: explanation , communications , verizon , wireless , mobile , sayitvisually Call me at +1-510-316-9773 , Skype me , follow @skypejournal and @Phil  Read More →

Skype into the event: 877-883-4690 (United States and Canada) or +1 706-758-5386 (international). Conference ID: 64218465 Verizon Wireless And Skype To Unveil Skype mobile At CTIA WIRELESS 2010 In Las Vegas 03/22/2010 WHO: Verizon Wireless, the leading wireless provider in the United States, and Skype, the company with the software that enables the world’s conversations WHAT: Verizon Wireless and Skype will hold a news conference during CTIA... 

I went to the Game Developers Conference yesterday. Team voice chat is now a commodity, a feature you can buy/rent for your game from companies like GameSpy . Players of team games don’t like in-game voice chat. They want to talk with teammates outside of the game before team play (planning, coordination, training) and after (after-action reports, peer feedback). …  Read More →

The Startup Bus to SXSW Interactive 2010 is now rolling south by southeast. “12 strangers will board a bus in San Francisco. At 60 miles an hour and over 48 hours, they will conceive, build and launch 3 tech startups in time for a SXSW party in Austin.” Can you bootstrap a company and squeeze in a decent portability policy? The Bus startups will try. The DataPortability Project wants to make your …  Read More →

A guest post by Todd Carothers , VP, Product Management at CounterPath Corporation. When we started BridgePort Networks (acquired by my current employer CounterPath ), we knew the fixed-line voice services was starting to undergo a decline and mobile services would grow rapidly (over 4.6B users today).  Read More →

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Skype is sponsoring the email stations. Or should we call them Skype stations? This one was in the Venetian around the corner from the press room. Nicely done. Useful to attendees (Vonage sponsored free phone call booths in the past). Visible and memorable. Presumably low cost. Skype has a much lower footprint at this CES than before. No eBay booth, no lavish parties, no press conference, no sponsored VIP zone. They’re taking meetings... 

Mix Online interviews the music team behind the musical television show Glee ( Wikipedia , TV.com , IMDB ). [Adam] Anders and his partner in Sweden, super-producer Peer Astrom (Celine Dion, Madonna), work on an intense timeline, with about seven days from music approval to show taping to producing songs. Their teams work across time zones, around the clock, arranging, tracking and mixing — multitasking to produce up to 11 songs in a single... 

The user interface is very similar to the ASUS video phone. I’ll have more for you from CES tomorrow. For now, here’s their blog post , the @skypeonyourtv twitter page, and text from Skype’s news release: Skype-enabled Televisions Skype is already renowned for popularizing video calling and bringing people closer together through rich, real-time communication. With Skype embedded into Internet-connected HDTVs, the company is... 

I have good news and bad news from Las Vegas. The good news: Skype for Windows 4.2 Beta will triple your screen resolution from High Quality 640×480 to 720p HD 1280 x 720. Download the Beta now ( full install ). You’ll need a 1 Mbps connection between the two callers. You’ll also need a new HD webcam and PC with a 1.8 GHz dual-core processor. The bad news in three parts: First, it’s just for Windows now. No word on when... 

“Ready, Set, Pitch” your startup at StartupCamp Telephony Edition ( #SCT ) Thursday, January 21, 2010 from 5:30 PM – 10:00 PM, Miami Beach, Florida. “Five startups will be selected to give brief 5-minute “pitch” presentations following which the panel and audience will ask questions, and provide 5-10 minutes of valuable feedback. Early stage companies wishing to be included in the pitch roster should [ apply to present...