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Microsoft-Google spat is so yesterday. The latest flare up in Silicon Valley is between Yahoo and Nuance Communications. Nuance is accusing Yahoo of stealing trade secrets in the VoIP business. As you might know, Yahoo is pretty serious about this whole VoIP thing, and wants to integrate voice services with its web services. The spat [...]

Verizon VoiceWing fine-print on unlimited plans.
Verizon reserves the right to monitor usage for possible abuse of service. For packages with unlimited calling, more than 5,000 minutes a month is considered beyond normal residential use and may be investigated, resulting in potential termination of service.
That’s about 3 hours a day… not a lot of [...]

There were some curious movements in the eBay stock just before the Skype deal was announced. Hitchhiker’s Guide to 650 points out

Gizmondo, the gaming device maker is not selling many devices, has a questionable future, but that hasn’t stopped company’s executives to get fat-off-the-company’s coffers. Mob Happy has the latest skinny, but I leave you with this little something about the extracurricular activities of some of the execs.
Tamela Sainsbury, the corporate secretary of Gizmondo Europe, is [...]

Peter Rojas is a rockstar - or at least that’s the impression I got from SF Engadget meet-up which was well, as well attended as the MobileFocus event the night before. I got a chance to get my dirty paws on a whole punch of devices including OQO and some of the new Windows Mobile [...]

Folks Skype 1.4 for Windows is available for download, and among the new features include much improved call forwarding to your land/mobile numbers. Think of it as a way to boost Skype’s SkypeOut sales. There are many more personalization options, including ability to add ringtones and pictures. (My suspicion - with this we are [...]