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How will Skype affect the unified communications market?

Skype's business strategy and implications for the unified communications market
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How will Skype affect the unified communications market?

Steve Taylor By Steve Taylor and Larry Hettick
Last week, we covered a Skype announcement about its VoIP application for the iPhone, today we'll follow-up with additional news and analysis about the company. In the news category, eBay last week announced it plans to separate Skype from the company. In the latter category, we'd like to share some great analysis about Skype's business strategy and the implications for the unified communications market from Brian Riggs, Research Director, Enterprise Software and Communications at Current Analysis. Read full story

Steve Taylor is president of Distributed Networking Associates and publisher/editor-in-chief of Webtorials. Larry Hettick is a principal analyst at Current Analysis.

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