Click here. TalkPlus CEO Jeff Black demos a call from a Motorola handset equipped with TalkPlus to the Skype echo123 user. Echo123 has no Skype-In number. Sleight-of-hand? You be the judge. The video is unedited.
The impact on Skype/Ebay could be huge. Right now, Skype-Out minutes are free. Their revenue is from licensing, and from an annual 30 euro fee for Skype-In. Why buy a Skype-In number if TalkPlus can do the job?
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Alec Saunders is the Vice President of Developer Relations for BlackBerry maker Research in Motion. This is his personal blog, with his personal viewpoints. Prior to this Alec was the CEO and co-founder of Calliflower — the easiest way to hold a meeting, online, on a conference call, or on the go. A double-decade veteran of product management and marketing, he spent nine years at Microsoft where he helped launch Windows 95, the first two versions of Internet Explorer, the Universal Plug and Play initiative, the push into home markets, opt-in email marketing and what might well go down in history as the very first direct email list ever.
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Does anyone know what the status of this is? The whole story seemed to simply disappear.
I bought a Skype number thinking that I would be able to call landlines as well as cell phones. It seems that one needs to by credits to do so.
I am upset because I had read that with a personal Skype number, that I would be able to do so.
Did I read that wrong or can one do that?
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