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  Alec Saunders .LOG -- An explosive mix of VoIP, Technology, Wine, and Politics: This morning’s Business Week asks whether the suit can ground Skype.  It speculates that this is an opportunistic action, and that there is likely to be a countersuit by Skype claiming infringement of it’s patents.  A quick search at USPTO.GOV, though, reveals more than 100 granted patents or filed applications by Net2Phone, and none that I could see by Skype.  (via Cosmos)

  thevoipdigest.com: Finally, let me just point out that VoIP can be provided from anywhere in the world, not just in the U.S. How is the U.S. going to enforce such a tax? Suppose Skype refuses to pay into the USF tax, will the FCC ask that all the ISPs start blocking Skype traffic and even ban the Skype.com web address for all U.S. citizens? (via Cosmos)

 [ m-trends.org] Klonies on Skype: Here’s the hook (previously anounced on MocoNews): “A user creates their avatar, either online or via the mobile handset, and when they call someone or send a message their avatar pops up on the other mobile screen. The fact that you can change the avatar in real time means you can make it reflect how you want to be perceived at any point in time.

 [MobilitySite] Klonies? Looks cool!: Klonies appear as the Skype Caller ID on the screen of the called party, representing how the user would like to be seen, and reflecting the user's appearance, interests, and feelings. As part of the launch and as the world’s attention turns to soccer, a special “Football Mania”

[/Message] Skype Meets Klonies: I worked with the company's designers to made an avatar that looks like me, even wearing a /Message T-shirt and has me cheering for the US in the World Cup -- check out the face paint:

 [Gigaom.com] Om Malik on Broadband : » For Skype, One More Headache Called Yahoo: Yahoo is also planning to give away avatars and ringtones, which apparently were a big push for Skype in terms of monetizing its audience. Yahoo believes that it has a better profile of users - in US and Western Europe to monetize its efforts, in comparison to Skype, which is pretty strong in Asia and Eastern Europe.

 [M-trends.org] m-trends.org: You might ask yourself “What has this to do with Mobile?” In the mobile industry, 3GSM has showed us (once again) there are very few women working in mobile - see also Where Were All the Women? - so my humble contribution to help improving this situation in our sector is to keep doing the Women in Mobile interview series in order to show there are very interesting women doing challenging work in mobile and they do it everywhere…

 [Xendolev.typepad.com] Xellular Identity by Xen Mendelsohn (Dolev): The Proliferating ...: in this whole IM thing is the lack of interoperability between all the different instant messengers!! I got:

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