Skype, Vodafone Move Forward Together?

Vodafone’s getting deeper and deeper into this whole Internet thing - the latest reports indicate that the company is exploring options with MSN, Yahoo, and AOL.  It has also displayed several mobile phones designed to work with Skype, and has presented some VoIP technology.

It’s that technology which is really stealing the spotlight.  “Vodafone showed the application, code-named Starfish, in the future zone of its booth at the world’s biggest technology trade show, CeBIT,” according to a Reuters article to find out why Skype might need one.

Yet as the Reuters article points out, what Skype and Vodafone are doing isn’t exactly a new line of thought.  “The Starfish software on the mobile phone is essentially the same Skype software which is used by Vodafone’s much smaller rival 3 . . . which it launched last year in an attempt to find new customers to boost network traffic.”