“Free calls over Skype, the Internet communications service, could be coming soon to the iPhone,” Jessica Mintz reports for The Associated Press.
“Skype, a subsidiary of eBay Inc., said Thursday at the International Consumer Electronics Show that a version of its Internet calling and instant-messaging software is available for Google Inc.’s Android cell phone platform as a free download. And it indicated an iPhone Skype program isn’t far behind,” Mintz reports.
MacDailyNews Take: Note how the focus of the article is about Skype coming to Apple’s iPhone even as it’s released for Android.
Mintz continues, “Scott Durschlag, Skype’s chief operating officer, said Skype’s iPhone application is still under development. Engineers are still working on cutting the amount of power the application consumes, he said… This week, Skype [also] launched a new version for Apple’s Macintosh computers.”
Full article here.