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Daily News 2005/12/02
Skype cooperating with Radio Shack for the sales
of Skype telephone set
Skype, the world famous Internet phone service provider, is planning
to sell telephone set through Radio Shack, a famous American retailer
of electronic products.
Skype, having 66,000,000 subscribers, is mainly engaged in providing low-cost
or free-of-charge Internet phone service in Europe and Asia. It says that
it will sell Skype telephone set through the 3500 branch stores of Radio
Shack.
Skype will also provide relevant software that is easy to install. With
the software the users can make a call to the computer or to the telephone
set. In terms of function, it is something like sharing a music file.
Not like Vonage, it doesn't need a central switch, and for this reason
the operation cost of it is very low.
ZTE will cooperate with Cisco to develop the Asia-pacific telecom market
On Nov. 22 of 2005, Cisco and ZTE announced that they had signed a strategic
agreement. According to the agreement, they will cooperate in the telecom
market of China and Asia-Pacific region (not including Japan), to develop
comprehensive solutions for NGN, 3G and data service, and find new business
opportunities.
According to the contract, Ciso and ZTE will work together to meet the
rapidly increasing demand on the Asia-pacific telecom market by enhancing
the development of information technology and telecom technology. They
will also work together to provide customer service solutions and seek
for new business opportunities. Earlier this month, the two sides signed
this contract in Shenzhen, where the headquarter of ZTE is located.
U.S.Department of Justice approving the merging of Siebel Systems
with Oracle
Siebel Systems, the world leading provider of customer service solutions,
announced that the U.S.Department of Justice has approved the merging
of Siebel Systems and Oracle.The merging also depends on the decision
of European Committee. The two companies believe that it will be completed
in the first quarter of the next year.
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