Jajah - a new VoIP provider? There are so many these days that I don't bother to record them but this one claims to be able to bridge communications with Skype. If true, and no mainstream source is reporting this yet (Broadband reports is circumspect), that is quite something. A large part of Skype's lead is in externalities (i.e. they have 40 million or so users that can only call each other and the PSTN and the next largest provider (YahooBB!) probably has a tenth of that number. But if a new entrant can innovate with new features as well as leverage Skype's customer base by enabling their users to call Skype's users then it is a whole new ballgame. One of the main barriers to market entry falls by the wayside. Jajah would still have to prove itself capable of this but, if so, it is the type of development that would have me selling Skype to Google or anyone else fairly quickly. Then again Jajah's website is distinctly odd so they might not be doing much of interest at all. To be watched.

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