Skype tag

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Skype and SMS

I'm still catching up on email and voicemail from being away from the office for a week attending Internet Telephony Expo - which by the way was a resounding success. I'll link to some photos in my next blog entry.... Full Story

Posted on February 28, 2005 10:55 AM

Skype Poor Customer Service

Last night I received an email from an irate Skype customer pleading for me to come to their rescue. Apparently, the woman was double-charged on her checking account, contacted Skype's billing department via billing@skype.com, and hasn't heard "boo" yet from... Full Story

Posted on February 16, 2005 11:21 AM

Skype and Motorola

Skype, the Internet telephony software provider, said on Monday it had reached a cooperation agreement with Motorola, the world's third-largest handset marker, aimed at increasing its penetration of its key wireless market. This is big news that was announced at... Full Story

Posted on February 14, 2005 4:00 PM

Skype for Mac OS X and Linux

Skype launched versions of their software for the Mac and Linux. Check out the Skype release: Skype for Mac OS X and Linux v1.0 Now Skype is available for Windows, Linux, Mac and even PocketPCs. Still waiting on a high-powered... Full Story

Posted on February 1, 2005 10:01 AM

Skype & Vonage Interviews

Skype's Niklas Zennstrom Vonage's Jeffrey Citron Two recent interviews of two of the biggest and most important VoIP pioneers to share. First, Skype's CEO Niklas Zennstrom: Skype writes off the telephone - vnunet.com Second, Rich Tehrani's interview of Vonage's... Full Story

Posted on January 28, 2005 10:04 AM

PhoneGAIM Targets Skype

PhoneGAIM Someone emailed me about a new VoIP softphone client from Linspire, who typically develop Linux products. They now have a Windows version, tied to SIPPhone.com's service for PC-to-PSTN calling, but still based on the popular open-source Gaim IM... Full Story

Posted on January 10, 2005 3:13 PM

Skype Security Issue Part2

A couple days ago I quoted Andy's blog where he discussed a Skype security issue whereby callers in a Skype conference could hear an incoming caller leaving a voice message vis Skype new SAM (Skype Answering Machine) feature. Well, that... Full Story

Posted on January 9, 2005 2:52 PM

Skype Security

Looks like Skype has some more security issues. Andy had an "eavesdropping" security issue when he tried calling another Skype user. Essentially when he dialed this other Skype user, this user was already in a Skype conference call, so Andy... Full Story

Posted on January 7, 2005 1:56 PM

Skype, Cable & Wireless deal

Skype has signed up some more call termination providers for their SkypeOut service - this time with Cable & Wireless and Luxembourg's B3G Telecom Technologies. Skype already has deals in place with iBasis, Level3 and Teleglobe, who now provide global... Full Story

Posted on December 21, 2004 9:36 AM

Skype over Satellite

Some avid mountain climbers decided to do a test drive using Skype over a satellite data connection (RBGAN satellite modem). Since they were charged per megabyte and not per minute they did some rough calculations to see if there were... Full Story

Posted on December 14, 2004 5:25 PM

Skype API

Skype Andy's blog brought to my attention that the Skype API is out (in beta) VoIP Watch: Skype API Now Out Here's the news from Skype's website: Skype, the Global Internet Telephony Company, today announced the beta of its... Full Story

Posted on November 9, 2004 2:01 PM

Skype phone

IPMind A representative of IPMind came across my VoIP blog entry "Skype Keynote", saw that I "wished" for "a phone product with Skype technology embedded that DOES NOT REQUIRE a PC to be on to work!" and he posted a... Full Story

Posted on October 15, 2004 12:05 PM

CuPhone and Skype

CuPhone Personal Phone Gateway (PPG) Andy reminded me of a company that creates a USB portable gateway device that actually won an Internet Telephony Editors' Choice Award in 2000. Well, now they support Skype and in an interesting way.... Full Story

Posted on October 14, 2004 1:24 PM

Skype keynote

I just got out of the Internet Telephony Expo keynote featuring Niklas Zennstrom, CEO from Skype, a real rebel trying to establish a business plan for Skype while at the same time maintaining their loyal and rabid following of fans... Full Story

Posted on October 6, 2004 11:49 AM

Skype debate

Was reading this debate on Skype: My gripe with the hype around Skype and five good reasons why you shouldn't cancel your other phone services just yet - The Unofficial Apple Weblog - apple.weblogsinc.com I posted some comments there as... Full Story

Posted on September 30, 2004 10:54 AM

Skype Niklas Zennstrom keynotes Internet Telephony Expo

Greg Galitzine recently blogged the fact that Niklas Zennstrom, CEO and co-founder of Skype, will address the audience at Internet Telephony Conference & EXPO in Los Angeles on October 6. Skype has certainly helped make VoIP mainstream and they have... Full Story

Posted on September 28, 2004 12:16 PM

Skype down?

Is it just me, or is Skype's website down today? I also had some difficulty initiating a Skype call initially. First major Skype outage perhaps? UPDATE! 12:00pm - Someone posted to my Comments that the DNS entry for Skype was... Full Story

Posted on September 16, 2004 11:30 AM

Cisco Bigwig Joins Skype Board

I read on The Street.com's website that BusinessWeek has reported that a Cisco Bigwig, namely Mike Volpi, Cisco's former strategy chief, has joined the board at Skype. Skype's P2P VoIP business model doesn't exactly fit into Cisco's VoIP business model.... Full Story

Posted on September 15, 2004 9:53 PM

Skype McDonald's-like VoIP Minutes Counter

Remember before McDonald's changed to a static "Billions and Billions Served", McDonald's billboards would change every couple years and increase in number. "10 Billion Served", "20 Billion Served", "50 Billion Served", etc. etc. Ahhh, those were the days, driving past... Full Story

Posted on September 15, 2004 2:45 PM

Skype PocketPC client

Andy I knew there were rumors of a Skype client for PocketPCs, but Andy alerted me that Skype launched a VoIP client for PocketPCs today. He also offers some interesting analysis on what this could mean and how it could... Full Story

Posted on September 9, 2004 3:04 PM

Skype Lauches Apple Mac OS X version

Skype has launched an Apple version of their popular P2P VoIP client. The nine million people using Skype's Internet telephony service will now be able to chat to Mac OS X users. You can download the beta version from Skype's... Full Story

Posted on August 31, 2004 12:34 PM

Windows XP SP2, Skype and Limiting the number of connections

VoIP Forum and other Technology Forums: Windows XP SP2, Skype, eMule I posted this in the VoIP forums and thought it would be useful to blog it as well: I've noticed some problems with the number of simultaneous connections after... Full Story

Posted on August 16, 2004 11:08 PM

SkypeOut free calling to PSTN due to network congestion problems

Check out this quote from the About SkypeOut website. "As a result of overwhelming demand and unforeseen call traffic to the regular telephone network, we are unfortunately experiencing technical difficulties which impact call completions and quality in the SkypeOut network.... Full Story

Posted on August 5, 2004 10:03 PM

Skype a security risk?

This article says that the ever-popular Skype has a security risk. Essentially, Dmitry Goroshevsky, founder-CEO of Popular Telephony, which has a server-less peer-to-peer VoIP software called Peerio, stated that Skype is a big security risk for corporate networks. I'll have... Full Story

Posted on July 23, 2004 2:22 PM

Skype goes Linux

Skype has released a beta version of a Linux version of the popular Skype client. Read the full story here: Globetechnology ... Full Story

Posted on June 25, 2004 11:32 AM