MacNN | Echoes News http://www.macnn.com/ MacNN is the leading source for news about Apple and the Mac industry. It offers news, reviews, discussion, tips, troubleshooting, links, and reviews every day. The best place for Mac News. Period. en-us Echoes, Latest News, Headlines, Stories; http://images.macnn.com/images/macnn-logo-bw.gif http://www.macnn.com/ MS Echoes would "get rid" of phone numbers http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/05/30/microsoft.echoes/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0805/windowsmobile6-2.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Microsoft has devised a strategy that would largely eliminate the need to use phone numbers for calling on cellphones, ZDNet says. Echoes would link a user's Windows Live Messenger contacts to a phone number through a cellular provider and would let cellphone users choose one of their IM contacts as the recipient; as information would be automatically linked between the two, users could place ca... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/05/30/microsoft.echoes/ Fri, 30 May 2008 14:55:00 GMT