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Live from Cafe Doria, (we’ve now officially abandoned Starbucks because i) they never offered a sweet sponsorship package and ii) Cafe Doria has free Wi-Fi), we bring to you a pre-holiday edition of Talking Tech. Kevin Restivo and I kick off the show this week with Skype’s new $29.95-a year, all-you-can-eat SkypeOut North American package. I’ve always bought the $14.95 early-bird special given b5media is a heavy, heavy Skype user. While this package could be seen as a Vonage-killer, the real significance is it’s another part of eBay’s efforts to turn Skype into a real business as opposed to a free, disruptive service embraced by millions of penny-pinching consumers around the world.
Someone clearly in the holiday spirit is BCE COO George Cope, who told a group of investors that the telecom conglomerate is aiming to have revenue growth of 3% to 5% in 2007 - a bullish stance given BCE has struggled to show any kind of growth in recent years. Finally, Kevin and I take a quick look at Microsoft Vista and question whether it will resonate with consumers and enterprise users. (Microsoft has been kind enough to let Kevin and I play with a final version of Vista).
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