Skype Says, Meet The Klonies

Om Malik, Wednesday, June 7, 2006 at 6:14 AM PT Comments (1)

Just in time for World Cup Soccer, Skype users can now use avatars to reflect their personalities and their favorite team, thanks to Klonies. Klonies come from Comverse, a division of Comverse Technology, a telecom software providers, which had launched these avatar for mobile handsets last fall. The whole avatar business is getting interesting.

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June 7th, 2006
7:26 AM PT
aswath said:

I think Skype better change the orientation of the US flag in ahurry before it gets unwanted attention. But then, given the state of Soccer in US, the artist may have thought this to be appropriate. :-)

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