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Company blogs are such a wonderful thing. In a recent post on the Skype blog summarizing 2009 for the application, it has been announced that a 3G-capable version of the iPhone Skype app is ready and awaiting the Apple go-ahead for deployment. No real word on when that’ll happen, but it’s nice to know Skype [...]

Story @ financialpost Competition in the cellular phone market is always good and is why I have included this story. A good option for VOIP users could be to get an iPhone on a “cheap” minutes plan (ideally pay-as-you-go), and get a good data add-on. One could then use Fring/Skype or some other VOIP service [...]

The Associated Press is reporting on Apple’s response to AT&T’s opening up of their 3G network to VOIP apps. “We are very happy that AT&T is now supporting VOIP applications,” said Apple spokeswoman Natalie Kerris. “We will be amending our developer agreements to get VOIP apps on the App Store and in customers’ hands as [...]

The Washington Post is reporting that AT&T may allow VOIP apps such as Google Voice and Skype to operate on their networks, including on devices such as the iPhone. This could hopefully open up the door to the (re)introduction of some appstore apps and features which would permit the use of non-cellular voice communication on [...]

CBC Story The CBC is carrying a story about the Skype for iPhone application release today and contained in their article is a bit about Skype-In: Another feature from the company, SkypeIn — which assigns users a phone number so that they can take incoming calls — is still not available in Canada. Company executives [...]

Globe and Mail story Skype’s iPhone app is finally coming to Canada. As of Wednesday, Canadian iPhone and iPod Touch users will be able to join the 6-million-and-counting users who have already downloaded one of the most popular applications in the world. Tom Yeung, Skype’s director of market development for the Americas, told The Globe [...]

Found out via @skype on twitter that Skype has broken away from eBay and become its own entity again. Hopefully skype will re-evaluate its stance on having no intention of offering e911 service – the stumbling block preventing skype from offering skype-in numbers in Canada. Today, Skype begins a new chapter. We’re spinning off from [...]

USA Today has reminded us all that Apple’s, AT&T’s and Google’s comments on the Apple iPhone app store removal and rejection of all Google Voice related apps are due today. For those who don’t remember or are not up to speed, Apple pulled GV Mobile, a google voice app for the iPhone/iPod touch back at [...]

A while back I reported on how the Skype founders were considering buying Skype back from eBay. They did not do so and eBay currently still owns Skype, and licenses some technology from Skype’s founders, Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis. Well now Zennstrom and Friis have revoked the licensing agreement and eBay may be forced [...]

According to the Skype twitter feed, three new countries have added SkypeIn number availability. Nothing for Canada though.