The WSJ is reporting that Skype is finally being released for the iPhone. Check the AppStore Tuesday for the official release. Personally this is the most wanted app on my phone. I’m hoping it will work with backgrounder.

• Does the iPhone suck?
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Ashod from MeBeam has launched Icondial, a VoIP service that let’s you call any telephone in the World from a webpage. Give it a whirl.

Can you think of a few business applications for Icondial? The service can be widgetized – see my contact page here for an example.

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• Ja Können Wir – People of the World. Yes We Can.

A founding member of Skype, Toivo Annus, (orange shirt above) has a new startup developing video calling applications and user interfaces for flat-screen TV-s. In other words, Toivo is going to bring video conferencing and VoIP to your next LCD TV. I found this nugget over at Jan’s blog.

Investment group Ambient Sound Investments’ (ASI) project is named InkSpin1 which includes creating Skype user interface for LCD TV sets. So that the video calls can be hold on large TV screen.

type (toivo) in skype chat

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