New sound libraries and a mechanism to call phone numbers found on web pages are the new features found in Skype 2.6, an unsupported PC version that was pushed out today.
The click to call feature is very neat, but that feature has been around the block before with some Firefox plug ins that worked with earlier versions. The sound libraries are no doubt an outgrowth of the Skype deals with leading music lables that were formed earlier this year. Those deals have really yet to kick in and I suspect we're starting to see the starting strands of them with this version.
Skype remains though PC centric, and unlike client Sightspeed, Gizmo Project and from what I hear from Yahoo too, not as Mac oriented.
This new release goes to further perpetuate that belief.
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"Sound libraries" means the software libraries that encode and decode the voice, it has nothing to do with music or "music label deals".
Posted by: Vincent Oberle | August 21, 2006 at 04:10 PM