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iSkoot for Skype Launches in Android Market
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- iSkoot, a leading provider of Webcommunication services made for mobile phones, today announced that its mobileapplication, iSkoot for Skype, is launching in the Android Market, Google'snew mobile application store. iSkoot for Skype is the first VoIP solutionavailable in Google's Android Market.
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iSkoot for Skype makes it easy and affordable for people to keep in touchwith friends, family and contacts with an always-on-the-go lifestyle. iSkootfor Skype leverages the voice-optimized circuit-switched wireless networks ofmobile carriers, allowing for full operation even without access to WiFi or 3Gnetworks and ensuring the best possible call quality. Normal carrier voice anddata charges always apply.
"We are honored to be the first mobile VoIP application available in theAndroid Market because we are dedicated to bringing carrier-grade Webcommunications services to mobile phones and platforms around the globe," saidJim Hudak, iSkoot Vice President of Business Development. "iSkoot continues towork on delivering innovative products that give people a rich mobileexperience so that they can cut the cord from their desktop."
Available immediately for download in Google's Android Market, iSkoot forSkype also runs on nearly all major mobile platforms, including J2ME, S60v3,UIQ, Palm, Windows Mobile and BlackBerry. Android is an open and compressivemobile operating platform developed by an alliance of leading technology andwireless companies including Google Inc., T-Mobile, HTC, Qualcomm, Motorola,and many others.
iSkoot has built significant momentum during the past year with the recentacquisition of Social.IM, the social network IM client, which positions iSkootto grow beyond mobile VoIP and create a compelling and valuable consumersolution with a growing lineup of Web communications that can be integratedand pushed to your phone.
For more information, visit http://www.iskoot.com.
About iSkoot
San Francisco-based iSkoot, with offices in Cambridge and Israel, bringsleading internet services like Skype(TM) to mobile handsets around the world,delivering rich consumer experiences. iSkoot worked with Skype and Hutchisonto launch the first carrier-deployed mobile Skype application in 2006, anddelivered software for the Mobile World Congress award-winning 3 Skypephonecurrently sold in eight countries on three continents. iSkoot takes advantageof the voice-optimized circuit-switched network for delivery of voicecommunications, in keeping with its mission to engineer elegant and mobileoperator solutions to the challenge of bringing resource-intensive internetservices to mobile handsets. For more information, visithttp://www.iskoot.com.
iSkoot is a trademark of iSkoot Inc. All other trademarks, service marksand company names are the property of their respective owners.
Contact: Erica Jostedt SutherlandGold Group for iSkoot 415.848.7172 erica@sutherlandgold.comSOURCE iSkoot
iSkoot for Skype makes it easy and affordable for people to keep in touchwith friends, family and contacts with an always-on-the-go lifestyle. iSkootfor Skype leverages the voice-optimized circuit-switched wireless networks ofmobile carriers, allowing for full operation even without access to WiFi or 3Gnetworks and ensuring the best possible call quality. Normal carrier voice anddata charges always apply.
"We are honored to be the first mobile VoIP application available in theAndroid Market because we are dedicated to bringing carrier-grade Webcommunications services to mobile phones and platforms around the globe," saidJim Hudak, iSkoot Vice President of Business Development. "iSkoot continues towork on delivering innovative products that give people a rich mobileexperience so that they can cut the cord from their desktop."
Available immediately for download in Google's Android Market, iSkoot forSkype also runs on nearly all major mobile platforms, including J2ME, S60v3,UIQ, Palm, Windows Mobile and BlackBerry. Android is an open and compressivemobile operating platform developed by an alliance of leading technology andwireless companies including Google Inc., T-Mobile, HTC, Qualcomm, Motorola,and many others.
iSkoot has built significant momentum during the past year with the recentacquisition of Social.IM, the social network IM client, which positions iSkootto grow beyond mobile VoIP and create a compelling and valuable consumersolution with a growing lineup of Web communications that can be integratedand pushed to your phone.
For more information, visit http://www.iskoot.com.
About iSkoot
San Francisco-based iSkoot, with offices in Cambridge and Israel, bringsleading internet services like Skype(TM) to mobile handsets around the world,delivering rich consumer experiences. iSkoot worked with Skype and Hutchisonto launch the first carrier-deployed mobile Skype application in 2006, anddelivered software for the Mobile World Congress award-winning 3 Skypephonecurrently sold in eight countries on three continents. iSkoot takes advantageof the voice-optimized circuit-switched network for delivery of voicecommunications, in keeping with its mission to engineer elegant and mobileoperator solutions to the challenge of bringing resource-intensive internetservices to mobile handsets. For more information, visithttp://www.iskoot.com.
iSkoot is a trademark of iSkoot Inc. All other trademarks, service marksand company names are the property of their respective owners.
Contact: Erica Jostedt SutherlandGold Group for iSkoot 415.848.7172 erica@sutherlandgold.comSOURCE iSkoot
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