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Skype: Your dream marketing job?

Skype: Your dream marketing job?

Imagine for a moment – first day on the job – being told this is all you have to work with: More than a half billion users, with millions more joining every month A flood of metrics on how they communicate, what they use, and what they don’t use – but pay for anyways A [...]

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To Do Or Not To Do, That Is The Question

To Do Or Not To Do, That Is The Question

Image via Wikipedia Today Skype hit the news because Dan Neary, Skype’s Vice President for the Asia/Pacific region, during a conference told attendees that Skype won’t be developing anything for the new upcoming Windows 7-based mobile phones. MobileTechWorld looked into this statement and realized that what he actually said was not really “no Skype for [...]

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The Missing BlackBerry SuperApp

The Missing BlackBerry SuperApp

During his keynote address at RIM’s WES 2010 event two weeks ago, Research In Motion co-CEO Mike Lazaradis talked about and promoted the development of BlackBerry SuperApps, defined as applications that are highly integrated into many of the BlackBerry’s native applications and features. But one key SuperApp is missing; its absence has to rank at [...]

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Checking In on Hotel WiFi!

Checking In on Hotel WiFi!

Image via Wikipedia Over on my other blogs, VoIPWatch and Working Anywhere, I’ve cross posted on the subject of the annual Hotel Chatter Best and Worst of Hotel WiFi. It’s a subject that I’m very much passionate about, as I have spent over 300 days in hotels in 2008 and roughly 250 nights away in [...]

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Has “Social Sharing” Become the “Nom du Jour”?

Has “Social Sharing” Become the “Nom du Jour”?

I first came across the phrase “social sharing” during Jonathan Rosenberg’s Skype keynote presentation last Monday at eComm America 2010. But over the past weekend I have encountered two more instances where “social sharing” was the theme of a post or news item. So I have to ask: Where does “social networking” end and “social [...]

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Five Reasons Why We Should Say “Thank You” To Skype

Five Reasons Why We Should Say “Thank You” To Skype

Image via Wikipedia For me it’s a no brainer, Skype has been the most disruptive thing that has happened to the telephony industry in the last decade. Since its launch, six years ago, Skype has taught us a lot of important lessons and there are many reasons why we should say “thank you” to the [...]

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