April 24, 2008
CNN.com’s technology journalist Cherise Fong highlighted iSkoot today in a piece called “The Revolution Will Be Mobilized,” which looks at the myriad of ways that friends and family stay connected on their PCs, and what’s being done on the scene today to transfer that connectivity to the mobile world.
Cherise points out that when it comes to Voice over IP, “it’s clear today that Skype itself is the big winner in the VoIP game.”
Cherise noted that:
“Most recently, iSkoot has extended its partnership with Skype, following its collaboration with mobile operator 3 for the global launch of the 3 Skypephone in October 2007, which was the first mass-market Skype-enabled handset as a carrier-integrated solution for mobile-VoIP IM services.“
That new partnership is geared up for us to deliver more cool new products like the 3 Skypephone to more more places than ever in the coming year. Mobile revolution, here we come!
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Tags: 3 Skypephone, agreement, CNN.com, Skype
April 2, 2008
On the heels of our successful collaboration with Skype and mobile operator 3 to launch of the 3 Skypephone — the first ever mass-market Skype™-enabled mobile handset — around the world, iSkoot and Skype have just committed to extending our partnership further!
Under a new agreement signed yesterday, iSkoot will have certain exclusive rights to offer Skype-branded mobile software enabled by our iSkoot solution to mobile carriers in Argentina, Greece, Israel, Norway, South Africa, Switzerland and Turkey. Providing an end-to-end client/server/gateway solution, our products will deliver mobile Skype voice functionality based on iSkoot’s one-of-a-kind, circuit switch-to-VoIP technology.
The word from Skype’s GM of mobile and hardware devices, Gareth O’Loughlin: “For nearly two years, iSkoot has been working with Skype to deliver Skype on 3’s mobile network. With iSkoot, we enabled Skype on a wide range of handsets on 3’s network and most recently launched the 3 Skypephone. We are looking forward to building on our partnership to bring Skype’s mobile offering to more of our users.’
We here at iSkoot are definitely looking forward to it as well, and are thrilled at the milestone of this exciting new agreement. As our founder Jacob Guedalia points out, ‘This agreement with Skype underscores the commitment to our partnership and the success that partnership has built over the past two years.”
And a big two years it has been. 
Driven by our rich new commitment, it should be a very big year ahead as well.
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Tags: 3, agreement, Skype
