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The good folks at Botanicalls let you talk to your plants. Over the phone. The photo at the right is from their table at ETel07.
Sensors placed in a pot give up information

about the plant’s light and soil moisture. Ambient sensors pick up humidity, temperature, CO2/Oxygen and light. The sensors pass this to an app that […]

The PhoneGnome free calling community now includes GoogleTalk (Gtalk), MSN Messenger, and Yahoo! users. In addition to the millions of people already reachable free though free calls to other PhoneGnome members and hundreds of compatible VoIP services, PhoneGnome users can now also place free VoIP calls to users on GoogleTalk (Gtalk), MSN Messenger, and Yahoo!
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Download Version: 3.1.0.144. Includes the Skype Prime Beta and SkypeFind services. If you didn’t upgrade when they came out last week (build 134), now’s the time.
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Promote your phone service with their new Skype Prime snippet generator.
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Let’s ignore if 30% is “too high” for a moment: Skype is just getting its feet wet and wants zero risk for this pilot project.
Better to ask: what are other options for Prime’s rate?
Quality. Discounts offered for high buyer feedback ratings weighted by dollars spent. Payout delays (120 days) drop to zero with a […]

Skype’s well-traveled Stephanie Robesky pointed to a BBC site’s factoid: “The premium rate phone services market in the UK is the biggest in the world, worth ВЈ1.2bn a year - that’s ВЈ20 each for every man, woman and child.” (Stephanie, does that make the UK the most psychically informed nation on Earth? And does that number […]

Voice over Internet Protocol, or VoIP services have become increasingly popular in the last few years. In case you aren’t aware of VoIP, these services include full communication such as phone calls, videoconferencing and telephony services all of which can be completed over a high-speed internet connection. Most VoIp companies are worldwide as the […]

A little rant on US regulatory politics.
“Cheese Doodle-Eating Surrender Monkeys?” is how Hands Off The Internet slams Skype’s bit of consumer advocacy. Skype proposes anyone

can connect a phone to the mobile phone network so long as they don’t hurt it. Basically, you shouldn’t have to buy your phone from your mobile carrier any more than you […]

New enhancements to Skype Web Toolbar add three new cool features.

As mentioned in a previous post, I never dial phone numbers; one of my key tools is use of the Skype Web Toolbar for Firefox. (Firefox 2 is my default browser; MSIE 7 just does not cut the mustard!) With a couple of clicks I […]

20 so far.
I mean Niklas ZennstrГ¶m has his own VC firm. He’s disrupted the music, phone, and television industries. He’s on eBay’s executive leadership

team and has a stake in blog search engine Technorati. And Skype, under his leadership, launched search, advertising, and temp-work pilot projects, each of which could spin off into businesses of […]