April 15, 2008 4:58 PM PDT
Fring--VoIP, Skype, IM and more on your iPhone (Verdict: very cool so far)
Never one to shy away from bleeding edge technology, my co-worker Dan Diephouse (of open source web services frameworks Xfire and CXF fame) is running Fring on his
iPhone and we both agree that it's pretty fringing cool.
I was able to dial Dan on Skype and he was able to call me via Skype all on our corporate wifi. He was also able to use his VZW laptop card to connect to the iPhone. Very cool and extremely useful when traveling abroad or generally on the road.
ZDnet has video demos and Fring themselves have a demo video on YouTube.
I have to admit I am bit jealous and I really wish Blackberry would realize that their devices while fantastically functional are just not very fun.
Dave Rosenberg dishes up "Software, Interrupted" with nearly 15 years of technology and marketing experience that spans from Bell Labs to multiple start-up IPOs to open-source enterprise software companies. He is co-founder of MuleSource and currently serves as the general manager of Hardy Way. He is a member of the CNET Blog Network and is not an employee of CNET. Disclosure. You can contact Dave via e-mail at softwareinterrupted@gmail.com or follow him on Twitter @daveofdoom. 
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