Yahoo talks to Jajah
29 April 2008
Yahoo talks to Jajah
Web firm Yahoo! continued to develop its communications strategy this week, signing up internet telephony player Jajah to provide a premium voice service.
The Phone In and Phone Out service will enable Yahoo Messenger users to make PC-to-phone and phone-to-PC voice calls to more than 200 countries.
Voice calling will be added to the platform in the third quarter of this year and looks like it will replace the DialPad technology, which Yahoo acquired in 2005.
Following recent moves to extend Skype conversations to a wide variety of new mobile and wireless devices, Skype is taking another major step as it continues to merge its internet communications software with mobile phones. Today, the company released a beta version of Skype for your mobile, a mobile "thin" client that works on about 50 of the most popular Java-enabled mobile phones from Motorola, Nokia, Samsung and Sony Ericsson.
Earlier this week, rival VoIP player Skype released a beta version of its mobile client based on Java.
Skype said the beta version would allow the company to gauge the response of technology-savvy users whose feedback will help tweak the offering. This phase is expected to last several months, after which a public version of the application will be made available.
"These are still the early days for making Skype calls on mobile phones, but we've already made great strides in this space," said Gareth O'Loughlin, general manager for mobile and hardware devices at Skype. "Among other things, we have a great relationship with 3, the mobile operator, which has brought the mobile Skype experience to eight markets through the 3 Skypephone and a range of other packages and phones."
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