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Skype Affiliate Program

Skype aims to generate more business from its VoIP service by rewarding partners (affiliates) who agree to promote and sell it. Currently, Skype has around 39 million users and they claim it is increasing by more than 150,000 new users...

Skype & e911

Skype is trying to get an exemption from the newly mandated FCC e911 rules. If you think about it, how would Skype provide accurate e911 since it is a nomadic VoIP service? Many Skype users use Skype in their home,...

Skype and Peerio

Skype continues to take the VoIP market by storm, but until now the business enterprise couldn't leverage the power of Skype for inexpensive Skype-to-Skype calls or more importantly, phone-to-SkypeOut calls. In fact, currently, Skype is predominantly a PC-based software solution...

Skype Mobile

According to MobileMag, Skype Technologies co-founder and CEO Niklas Zennstrom reported that a mobile version of Skype will be available this year. I decided to check out to see if Skype had registered any domains with both Skype and...

Skype Tops 100 Million Downloads

Personally, I'd be more curious how many actual people use Skype daily rather than a download benchmark - as impressive as 100 million Skype downloads seems. I'm sure lots of people probably download it, try it, and then stop using...

Skype + Blog = Next Bill O'Reilly?

So you wanna be a journalist eh? Well, these days, just start a blog and you're good to go! Unless of course you're Apple and you don't classify bloggers as journalists. (See Apple suit against blogger) In any case, the...

ActionTec Internet Phone Wizard with Skype Review

ActionTec with Skype ArchitectureInternet Phone Wizard With Skypehttp://www.actiontec.com Price: List: $69.99, I've seen it online for $56.61 So you're a Skyper but you hate being chained to a headset connected to your PC? Well, have no fear, ActionTec's Internet...

Skype v1.2 Released

Skype, the Global Internet Telephony Company, today launched Skype for Windows version 1.2 (v 1.2) with enhanced user benefits including a centralized Contacts list, which allows users access to their list of contacts from multiple devices from wherever they connect...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...
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