Video VOIP Giant Skype Slow to Saturate Mobile
January 16, 2011 by domainqueen
Filed under Domain News, General
Online telephony and telecommute market has been saturated with Skype calls and the Skype brand has been firmly established in public and business solutions minds for Internet long distance teleconferencing and personal (and video) calls. But market watchers are seeing that technology range of Skype does not extend to mobile, in an era when mobile devices such as smartphones, Androids, ITouch, and Iphones fills every pocket. Furthermore, the newest burst of portable computing and Internet access technology, tablets, need Skype support as well.
Skype video calling, however, has been lacking for the mobile video call market. Demand for wrist level video telephone calls is growing, especially when the top candybar phones claim to deliver almost everything but the cure for cancer. Front facers, the mobile phone camera hosted telephony, functions on branded phones assorted by their manufactures. Tango, Qik, FaceTime, each phone has house brand gadgetware apps that mimic Skype. One type of call is phone hosted, the other a sort of server based group telephony governed by offsite resources.
Performance is choppy. The reliability many callers demand lapses and performance takes users back to the long distance static response of yesteryear. Coordination of Skype calls and integration of Skype type services does not play wel with other mobile calls operating in sync with the telephony call. Certainly the cellphone devices of today were not meant to host multiply programmed incoming and active calls on one candybar or touchscreen cellphone, already loaded for bear with touch-tap- and plug-and-play Chiclet factors.
But Skype manages the functionality of voice over internet and video over internet calls. They just may not have the device saturation they need. the considerable subscriber base Skype enjors has to employ a device for communication, either for group computer-governed or personal single cellphone calls. Specialization of Skype video to video cellphone and network governed “calls” varies by device and cellphone programming software platform. Wi-Fi, 3G and 4G harnesses disunified Windows Skye and for Mac Video VOIP users too.
So why doesn’t Skype market their own Skypeware gadget that serves a universal user base?
Apple Tablet on the Slate
January 27, 2010 by domainqueen
Filed under Domain Knowledgebase, Domain News
Today’s announcement by Cupertino techmaker Steve Jobs will start a run on domain names with “slate” or “tablet” in the keywords. Smart domainers have already done their Apple shopping, focusing on tablet names and keywords like “store’, shop” and “tech”. With a color screen, wi-fi and3G surfing and email capability, this all-purpose tech device should sell at about $1K, priced just right for credit enabled tech first adopters.
Apple’s Iphone penetrated every market it went into, and the tablet or slate product has futuristic edge with everyday practical uses. Domainers, to your registrars!
Poken.com sold for $75K
December 2, 2009 by domainqueen
Filed under Domain Auctions, Domain Sales, General
Sedo brought the hammer down on Poken.com at a five figure price rally pursuing the Poken name. Poken is feasibly a contact sharing technology practiced using devices that exchange information wirelessly. The social network spin continues to drive domain markets. Tally Ho!



