Skype news roundup: CNN ad deal, AOL open to interop, $50 IPEVO speakerphone

Products:

Skype for iPhone: Now Legally Available for Canadians. Congratulations, Canada! tip: type (flag:ca) in Skype chat.

Skype For Asterisk "is available to download now from Digium for $66 USD per concurrent call or from Digium Authorized Resellers and Distributors worldwide, and comes with 90 days of installation support from the time of purchase."

Skype For SIP channels are on sale for € 19.95  per month (without VAT – EUR) plus Skype's standard per minute call rates (no country, global calling plans).

ASUS Eee Reader could be built for Skype video calls, near the £100 mark. via Times Online.

IPEVO TR-10i speakerphone is now $49.99. Value hat tip to Michael Rose.

Business:

Skype to run ads on CNN's Connect the World show. Off-air chats to follow.

Om interviews Brad Garlinghouse, formerly the Yahoo! exec who owned Yahoo! Messenger, lately an in-house advisor at Silver Lake Partners (soon to own 50%+ of Skype), and soon to be president of AOL's email and AIM service. Interop with Skype is on the table. Mmmmm, peanut butter!

Exabytes per month worldwide in our mobile broadband future. 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes. How much will be people lifestreaming video? Skype video multicasting?

tags: skype, asterisk, iphone, canada, sip, asus, eee, ipevo, cnn, exabytes, bradgarlinghouse

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