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A New Business Model For Skype: Turning Phone Numbers On The Web Into Paid Ads

While eBay prepares to unload Skype via a sale or IPO next year, it is busy looking for new ways to make money off its 405 million global users. They already account for an estimated 8 percent of international calls, and many of them are increasingly paying for SkypeOut calls to regular phones. Its revenues [...]

Nick | Apr 18, 2009 | Comments 0
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Porsche Design P’9522 Phone

You can get away with a lot if you’re beautiful. Such is the case with the new Porsche Design P’9522 phone. In some ways, it’s a wonderful and capable cellphone, but in most others, it’s dumber than the gorgeous block of aluminum it was machined from.
Looking at the specs, we were hopeful that this touchscreen-enabled [...]

Nick | Apr 10, 2009 | Comments 0
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Gresso Skeleton phone: You’re doing it wrong

Once again we welcome into the world a bit of conspicious consumption so ham-handed that you actually get compassionate flops sweat for these people. The Gresso Avantgarde Skeleton is a “skeleton” phone with a display back. What does that mean? There’s a hole in the back so you can see the circuitry. This idea is [...]

Nick | Dec 15, 2008 | Comments 0
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Skyfire v0.85 released for S60 and WinMo, now unofficially open to the world

Skyfire, which ranks pretty dang high on our list of free mobile browsers and is the only one to support Flash, Silverlight and a good chunk of other rich multimedia formats, was for quite some time limited to residents of the US. Back in October, they opened it up to Canada.

Nick | Nov 23, 2008 | Comments 0
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Motorola is Really Getting Jazzed About That Android Social Networking Phone

Motorola, which is recruiting as many as 350 people to work on Android phones, is gearing up to make its first one:the Android Social Smart Phone. Last week, Android Guys spotted a job posting for the project, and now BusinessWeek has more details, including a mention of the Motorola job posting pictured at left [...]

Nick | Nov 11, 2008 | Comments 0
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