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The Skype Mouse Phone is, according to its makers, the first sliding cover mouse mouse in the world.

Skype is very slowly taking over the world! Since the purchase by Ebay there seemed to be very little advance in the VOIP platform from its new owner until very recently when it seemed that the original VOIP system was at last stretching its legs and spreading onto as many platforms as it can get [...]

This phone is different from the hundreds of other ’skype phones’ available today. As far as I am aware this is the only Skype cell phone, allowing you to make truly mobile phone calls at Skype’e low rates to other phones and free calls to other Skype users.

Zaphod8 on Skype’s forum reports the following:
I’m using Skype 1.4.0.99 in my Ubuntu Gutsy Tribe-4, and I decided to setup an AppArmor profile to isolate skype from the rest of my system (since Skype access the network, I would like to protect my system against a potential 0-day remote flaw in Skype, by restricing Skype [...]

Skype has now released Skype 2.7 beta for Mac OS X.
Here’s what Skype says is new: