Ipevo has rolled out its next generation Skype phone. Coming in at under $45, it is slim, easy-to-use and has a handy-dandy little feature that’s causing some serious buzz.

The feature?

With the touch of a button, you can record your conversation in real-time to your computer’s hard drive.

Skype is a phone-over-Internet service. Calls between two Skype phones are usually free with calls to a regular ‘land-line’ often incurring some kind of fee. This handset has separate hot buttons for making free calls on the Skype calling service and for Skype Out calls to regular phones.

Overall, using Skype instead of the traditional phone line can mean huge savings - especially for people who make a lot of global calls during peak hours. And the technology means that the calls are much clearer and free of the little bugs that made many early ‘Voice Over IP’ phones clunky to use.

Many companies like Ipevo are taking advantage of Skype’s popularity to markets its peripherals and tools.

This is the first one to take advantage of the direct-connect to your computer system with this little Spy vs. Spy enhancement…

With the Ipevo phone, you can save conversations as MP3’s once you install the necessary drivers. Then, with a push of the button you can save the contents of your call to a manufacturer asking for changes to your order, or of your relative’s story about a meaningful time to your family, or any other important conversation.

With MP3-to-text software, it’s just another step to build a transcript of the call.

It’s another ‘the future is now’ moment.

Before you go out and buy that cloak and dagger, though - remember, secretly recording calls is illegal in many states. To make sure these laws are followed, Ipevo has configured a warning alert to appear on the screen of the other person’s computer (for Skype calls) or a beep to be regularly heard (on calls to regular to phones) during recording.

The phone is compatible with PC using Windows XP or higher and Macs with OS X 10.4 or higher (although the drivers for recording calls using a Mac haven’t yet been released).

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Office-bound workers should assume that every keystroke they type is being recorded and intermittantly audited .

At the very least, most companies - no matter what size -  scan internet page visits, length of time in programs, and what files employees save to their hard drives and shared server space. MP3’s, movies, pictures, and raw text files are tracked as a routine part of most backup and virus scan packages.

However, the content of what occured over the corporate cell phone (beyond call numbers and times) was still a place of expected privacy.

Until now.

On May 10th, Retina-X Studios, LLC, announced their application “Mobile Spy”.

It’s an activity monitoring software for Windows Mobile based smartphones. The software allows users to monitor SMS and call details online in real time.

After being set up on the phone, it records all SMS text messages and call information and uploads that information to a web-based log that can be accessed by the company from anywhere online.

Furthermore, Mobile Spy runs in total stealth mode  on the phone and is undetectable to the user.  In addition to its use as a corporate montoring tool, Mobile Spy’s press release gives other possible benefits of their package:

• This new technology gives parents the ability to remotely monitor the family’s text and call activities by logging into a web site.
• Cell phone customers can use the software as a record of all important communications.

The product is available now at http://www.mobile-spy.com.

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