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First, I saw the above image in Flicker. Skype coupons (I guess) are being attached in the Coke bottles. Later, I was confirmed that Coca Cola is endorsing Skype in Japan.

Buffalo is promoting its Skype headsets through Coca Cola, which has just completed its 50th years in Japan. The winners will be provided 17,000 BMH-E03 series analog headsets.

The campaign will go on till July 13 with nearly 9.5 million Coke bottles carrying Skype cards to be available in 38600 stores in Japan. It is the most convenient way to hit the customers. The promotion will benefit both the companies.

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The image in the right hand side is Voiis Mini. I am sure you would be surprised when I explain the functions of this tiny device. It is all-in one. I mean VoIP, Music and Instant Messaging.

Axes-made Voiis Mini primarily depends upon Bluetooth connectivity to provide above-mentioned services.

With Voiis, you can stream music from Windows Media Player/iTunes and enjoy Skype calls. The device has a phonebook of 500 entries.

It comes with a with a PC antenna which can extend the signal up to 100 meters. It also supports IM clients.

Features:

1.A built-in microphone

2.1.2″ LCD display

3.A headphone jack

4.A long battery life of 6 hours (72 hours standby)

5.Supports Skype and MSN Messenger

The price of the high versatile Voiis is around $130. It is available in Japan.

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To cater growing demand among the Japanese customers for the RakOut VoIP services, Raketu has introduced a Japanese version after launching the Chinese version for the same service last month.

With RakOut VoIP, the customers of Japan now can enjoy free international calls to more than 40 countries in the world. The RakOut application is more or less similar to that Skypes SkypeOut service, which enables customers to make PC-to-landline calls.

Raketus President Greg Parker says,

With our Japanese language release of Raketu, we are continuing to deliver on our promise of localization, enabling our users to use Raketu in their native language.

With this addition, Raketu now covers four major languages, including English, Czech, Russian, Chinese, and Japanese. The company plans to introduce Spanish language version next week.

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Japan-based ageet Corporation, a VoIP product manufacturer has launched its latest softPhone AGEphone for Windows Mobile 5.0, which can be used to make VoIP phone calls on a PDA or Smartphone based on Windows Mobile 5.0.

The phone uses the fully SIP compatible VoIP engine microSIP Stack developed by ageet. The VoIP engine is extremely small and fast stack and appropriate for mobile devices.

Masato Okazaki, Representative Director at ageet Corporation said,

AGEphone for Windows Mobile 5.0 is targeted at the rapidly growing market of Windows-based mobile phones and is intended to satisfy the increased demand for VoIP applications for such devices.

He went on saying,

We have been developing AGEphone focusing on optimizing for popular smartPhones by HTC such as T-Mobile MDA or i-Mate devices while trying to satisfy both the private end-user as well as the so-called Road Warrior.

AGEphone for Windows Mobile 5.0 has the most features that are available in the PC version of the softphone including recording of voice messages and importing Outlook contacts.

The phone maker has also revised the Address Book and Call History to provide quick and comfortable access with both Stylus and QWERTY keyboard.

The latest device will be available by the end of this month for a cost of US$40 and a free Beta is available to trial now.

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