Mark Jacobstein Stirs up Buzz at eComm!
iSkoot’s very own CEO Mark Jacobstein hit the ground running at the 2008 eComm conference earlier this month, giving a talk on the virtues and viability of iSkoot’s uniquely carrier-friendly approach to mobile VoIP. By designing a thin-client application and network infrastructure that route Skype calls over the mobile phone’s voice channel instead of data (iSkoot’s “secret sauce” 
), iSkoot can run on nearly any phone with minimal impact on battery power and memory–unlike data-dependent mobile VoIP clients, which can’t make the same claim.
Mark illuminated the competitive advantages of iSkoot’s technology by pointing to our successful collaborations with mobile operator 3 to bring Skype-enabled mobile handsets to market in 8 countries.
As Jim Courtney observed in a recent Skype Journal post, “iSkoot has demonstrated how to overcome these barriers with their support for the 3 Skypephone service as well by providing clients for other smartphones, such as Blackberry and Nokia, that take advantage of their architecture to operate IM over the data network but voice over the inherent voice channel.”
Jim also pointed out in a previous post that “Mark’s presentation generated lots of post-presentation informal discussion, especially with respect to the potential for iSkoot’s operation on…mobile platforms such as BlackBerry, Nokia and Windows Mobile devices.”
Of course, we’ve got iSkoot for Skype solutions for BlackBerry, S60 and Windows Mobile devices available on our website TODAY, free to download! Check ‘em out, people!
And thanks for the shoutout, Jim!
