Perfect for Skype users

Investment group acquires 2/3 of mega-popular communications service

Wireless carriers consistently rank low in customer satisfaction rankings. One only need troll the pages of sites like Consumerist to understand why. Expensive, spotty service couples with poor customer service makes for quite a set of disgruntled customers.
One of my big beefs with carriers (or even phone makers-I’m looking at you Apple) [...]

The fleeting band of Skype and PSP users will finally get their wish in October when Sony finally releases the PSP-3000. [...]

Ok, so maybe you can’t have Skype on your PSP just yet. Are you going to let that get you down? Hell no.
Especially when you can easily make free Skype calls from the privacy, security and solitude of your own computer keyboard.
Japan-based Buffalo has a product in their inventory that does just that.
The BKBU-SKJ109/SV keyboard/Skype [...]

Sony Japan has announced that they are indefinitely postponing the release of microphones (and thus Skype) in the PSP.
Citing technical problems with the new PSP’s microphone not meeting Skype’s specifications, the new features had been scheduled to hit shelves in Japan Thursday.
Tokyo, January 23 – Sony Computer Entertainment Japan (SCEJ), a division of Sony Computer [...]

As Engadget said all last week, Sony confirmed Sunday that a firmware update for the PSP handheld gaming system will include free telephone calls via Skype.
“PSP users worldwide will be able to start using Skype features and services through a simple system software update scheduled in late January,” Sony Computer Entertainment said Sunday. “After updating [...]