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The competition for IP based services got a little hotter, with Yahoo annoucing the acquisition of Dialpad on Tuesday. You can read what Dialpad are saying here and eweek has a pretty in-depth article here
While it is good to see a strong established brand like Yahoo! joining the fray I don't think this will change the market much - VOIP will continue to thrive in the niche PC-PC market - typically catering for the tech. savvy. I think the broad consumer introduction of VOIP will only happen when established phone companies roll out the infrastructure for all and make it completely transparent to the consumer. Geeks care about VOIP, SIP, IMS - consumers care about cheap, reliable phone calls.
Other IP Services related news this week (for Skype fans at least) is the beta release of VSkype. I haven't had a real play with it yet so can't compare it to Video4Skype but it looks like you can have multi-way video conferences and desktop sharing so that's possibly a hint at targetting the Enterprise market (consumers don't need to share desktops ?)
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