Both companies have 3G licenses in several European countries. 3’s network covers Austria, Britain, Denmark, Ireland, Italy, Norway and Sweden while T-Mobile waves blankets to Austria, Britain and Germany.

Besides their network, those companies will be more favored by the iPhone because they are “the most forward-thinking in how 3G telephones should be brought to consumers,” explained a mobile phone analyst for Gartner. Three already smelled the evolution of the market. Last September, the operator issued the X-Series offering that includes Skype (through the iSkoot gateway), Slingbox or Windows Live Messenger among other services.

But if 3 and T-Mobile would be the beneficiaries of the Apple cellphone, how would react their competition? Said differently, will the iPhone boost the adoption of 3G services in Europe? What do you think.

If the option is set, Orgoo could record your IM conversations and store them for you in an email. You can record many of them as the service allows up to 3Go per account (slightly bigger than the 2.7Go that GMail offers).

First, Meebo Rooms don’t require a login to include new users. You can welcome up to 80 people at the same time, although Meebo is working to push far beyond this limit. Second, you can display photos, play songs or broadcast videos by simply type its URL into the chat form — just like Google Talk.

The feature can be spread on the Web through the magic of widget. Site owners will get to talk in one-to-many or a handful of them this way. Meebo Rooms has already plenty of users, including companies like Blip.tv, CNET, CollegeHumor, NBC Universal, Pop Sugar, Popular Mechanics, RockYou, Veoh, Us Weekly’s Us TV, and finally VIBE Magazine.

“We are at the very beginning of a call-enabled device explosion. Experts like Will Stofega, of consultancy IDC, believe that calling capabilities could, eventually, worm their way into all sorts of gadgets, such as TV remotes, radios and even alarm clocks. That would allow consumers to make calls to customer care just as they are puzzling over using a particular device’s interface, without stirring from where they are, or searching for their cell phone. We’ll also be able to order pizza by, perhaps, simply speaking to the armrest.” Or play and call with the Nintendo Wii remote.

In a convergence point of view, there’s nothing new. Microsoft plans to sit inside users’ refrigerator several years ago, allowing the device to order missing foods instead of the consumer. The only difference is that now, the Internet is ready to pervade. People may adopt those embedded phone functions more often, for example, to update their Twitter.

What do you think?

Citron said the new technology, which will provide a work-around to the first two patents that describe how IP addresses are mapped to telephone numbers, can be installed through software downloads. So the fix would not cost much for Vonage.

Will it be enough to cheer Wall Street analysts up? In the first quarter, the company signed up 166,000 new subscribers. During the same quarter a year ago, it signed up 328,000 new subscribers. Its churn rate rose to 2.4% compared with 2.3 per cent for the previous quarter. Nevertheless, Vonage share price are up since then.

The idea is ingenious and separates functionalities associated with media playing from the phone tool box. But Apple could just rely on a single programmable touchscreen, will you argue. Sure, and that’s what LG did with its Prada cellphone. As the Korean electronics manufacturer plans to sue Apple, it’s better to find a workaround.

According to sources familiar with the company, “the trio are currently working on a new kind of a communications tool, that can be dubbed as an IM competitor. The company which is currently operating in stealth mode is going launch sometime later this month.”

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According to All Things Digital, Joost got “the big slug of cash for a small minority stake” from an unusual mix of investors, including Silicon Valley’s famed Sequoia Capital (backers of Yahoo, YouTube and, of course, Google) and early Skype funder Index Ventures, as well as CBS, Viacom and the wealthy Hong Kong investor Li Ka-shing.

Of course, big broadcasters are interesting in this Joost technology that prevents video sharing, and stealing. But that might just be temporary…

A marketing arrangement with the chipmaker is also part of the agreement, says Jajah’s PR, which allows the VoIP company to open the door of the great technical knowledge of Intel and access to Intel’s broad range of patents from their patent portfolio. Namely Intel’s patent (No. 7120140) for the softphone that covers the interaction between digital phones and computers — and lets a telephone service be downloaded onto PCs as software.

There also is another evolution scenario for Jajah, the scenario in which the VoIP service goes beyond the desktop computer and pervades mobile phones. It has started with the LG Prada phone and the Apple iPhone. But Intel’s ambitions in this field, unsuccessful so far, might give an extra boost to Jajah.

It’s fine, because now, we can issue as many invitations as we want. So don’t hesitate, let us know if you need an invitation to the peer-to-peer TV client. There’s now no need to write a lengthly comment, just your email will be fine.

And if you wake up from your seasonal hibernation, here’s a little memory refresh about Joost. The software is the last Zennstrom’s and Friis’ venture. Joost combines some Mozilla tools and Skype/Kazaa core functions. It will soon hit its first milestone, with various TV programs from Viacom, Warner Music, Warner Bros., Endemol and more. We listed its specificities some times ago.