Yesterday's announcement of new international calling plans available from Skype probably set a record for generating press traffic about Skype. Certainly my ":Skype" keyword feed in FeedDemon has been gone off the end. Most of the reports were simply rehashes of the original two press releases (Global and North America). [...]

In recognition of Earth Day, this bit on Vodafone going green: The company said it's planning to cut CO2 emissions by 50 percent by 2020, using its 2006-2007 reduction emissions as a starting point. Read more[...]

Today's new Skype tariffs are the first positive sign of a return to its telecoms roots. Stefan Oberg, VP & GM telecoms at Skype said "if you live in London, for just €2.95 a month, you can call your grandmother in Poland, whenever you like, talk for up to six [...]

In Today's Issue: Online businesses crave telco capabilities (potentially…). Motorola rearranges the deckchairs. Nokia profits up 25%, but you wouldn't want to see what went into that. Is Comes With Music a lossmaker? Nobody pays for the stuff anyway. Silverlight everywhere. And Moonlight. Is Microsoft IBM in 1993? 1,788 entries [...]

There was a time when operators wanted to lock in people to their own content portals, but for Vodafone (NYSE: VOD), that's the past. Since last year, the UK operator has thrown its walled garden Vodafone Live open, and has even embraced Nokia's portal Ovi, reasoning, as their CEO Arun [...]

Vodafone has announced that it has extended its ‘Partner Market’ agreement with the Mobilkom Austria group to Serbia, where Vodafone will introduce a range of own-branded products and services over the VIP Mobile-branded network. The agreement makes Serbia Vodafone’s 41st ‘Partner Market’. ‘Serbia is an important telecommunications market in Europe [...]