Monday, September 05, 2005

Integration on the march

If there is any common thread to the the Microsoft and Google forays into voice, it would appear to be closer integration of IM/voice with existing email/calendar functions (as Andy has rightly highlighted). Today Skype and TOM.com take their relationship one step further with an equity JV (Skype a minority partner at 49%) geared toward marketing a slim-line version of Skype to China, with closer integration with TOM.com's portal content.

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