Skype Unleashed Onto Cell Phones 74
An anonymous reader writes "Today Hutchinson announced that it would provide unlimited cell phone to cell phone Skype calls via a 3G connection. This new service, called X-series, is part of a new alliance made up of Skype, Sling Media, Yahoo, Nokia, Google, eBay, Microsoft, Orb and Sony Ericsson. According to the article, users will also be able to 'search Google and Yahoo, send MSN instant messages to their friends, watch their TVs from a Slingbox, access their computer at home with Orb and buy or sell stuff on eBay.' Users will only get charged a monthly fee for access, in a similar way to broadband charges."
Fine print... (Score:4, Funny)
This is so cool! (Score:5, Funny)
and in soon to be news....... (Score:3, Funny)
eletro manifesto (Score:1, Funny)
Fuck, it's the end. The company name is 3? The service is called X-Series. And I'm living in a joke, right??! Someone allowed the (1) creation of the ultimate fortress in the history of business technology. Hopefully not! (2) the UK, a country without a Constitution, can now be the place to begin tracing activities of human beings. Excuse? Yes, you're not being monitored, you're loosing privacy under any suspecting evidence of wrongdoings. Why, it's Terrorism, of course... Again! The cost? Zero, everything is being privatized. They all win, because there is a contract from 'Tres' with a term to commit to all who delivers. Ask for the contract, it exists. Suckers. Now we sink because Osama said so and the rich listened.
Re:That'd be Hutchison, not Hutchinson (Score:1, Funny)
Re:This is so cool! (Score:4, Funny)
Kindly dispense with the "unleash" metaphor (Score:3, Funny)
Dear SlashDot!
Few metaphors are as worn-out and abused as the "unleash" one. Please, leave it to the marketoids, so that we can continue to spot them the same way, we spot head-hunters by the "touch base" metaphor.
Thank you very much! Sincerely,
The Audience