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Skype Meets Facebook - But Not Without Problems
Skype 5.0 has been released with some new features, including Facebook integration. A new Facebook tab appears within the Skype client, which shows Facebook's 'News Feed' and a phone book. When I linked my Facebook account, I noticed under the...
2600hz Introduces "PromoCalling" - Free VoIP Phones for Business
I'm off to moderate an ITEXPO session, but came across some interesting news announced at ITEXPO I wanted to share.Check it out: 2600hz Introduces "PromoCalling" - Free VoIP Phones for Business Ad-Supported Phone Provides Competitive Free Calling Option to...
UM Labs Brings 256-bit AES Secure VoIP to Mobile Phones
I met with Mike Wilson, VP of Sales & Marketing for UM Labs at ITEXPO today to learn more about their secure VoIP offering. At ITEXPO they announced their 1.5 release, which steps up interoperability amongst various IP-PBXS and now...
Important ITEXPO Happenings
I wanted to share some important highlights for Internet Telephony Conference & Expo happening this week. I should point out that we have over 200 exhibitors participating including Asterisk / Digium, Cisco, Packet8, ShoreTel, Skype, and more. Seems like ITEXPO...
Skype to Name New CEO
BREAKING!According to Techcrunch, Skype is going to name a new CEO to replace Josh Silverman Techcrunch theorizes, and I agree, that this could be a setup for a pending IPO. Skype is participating at ITEXPO, so I'll see if I...
Obama Aims to Wiretap Skype, Facebook, Blackberry, the Entire Internet
Things just went from bad to downright scary under the Obama Administration. According to the StarTribune.com: Essentially, officials want Congress to require all services that enable communications -- including encrypted e-mail transmitters such as BlackBerry, social networking websites...
Facebook Phone? Who cares!
TechCrunch started a firestorm when they said Facebook was working on a "Facebook phone", resulting in denials by Facebook, and finally TechCrunch called Facebook and their PR outright liars. Everyone was in a tizzy that Facebook was purportedly building a...
Skype + Webcam Catches Shocking Abuse of 91-Year-Old
Skype isn't just a communications tool - it's a crime solver too. Enough in fact to put Batman out of a job? No wonder he's ticked off and hanging out with the Joker. In Jersey City, a home healthcare worker,...
ooVoo vs. Skype in the SMB Space
I recently had a video interview with Phillipe Schwartz, CEO of ooVoo, to discuss how they stack up against Skype, ooVoo's technical architecture, their target market, and more. One difference off the bat is that ooVoo started with a...
Skype for SIP is Now Skype Connect
Today, Skype announced that Skype for SIP is changing its name to Skype Connect. Guess the techie name "SIP" isn't exactly business-friendly, hence the name change. Today, they are also announcing that hat Skype Connect (formerly Skype for SIP) is...
Skype mobile now available on Verizon Wireless BREW phones
Skype is now available on Verizon Wireless multimedia phones on the BREW platform. What's interesting about this partnership is that it is NOT VoIP - the call is actually routed over Verizon Wireless's network. It requires a cellular connection and...
Rupert Murdock Sues Skype for "trademark infringement"
Ridiculous news of the day! Rupert Murdoch of News Corp (FOX News) is suing Skype over trademark infringement. Apparently, Rupert's BSkyB company is suing over trademark infringement for sharing 3 letters and a very common word with Skype -...
Skype IPO
Rich Tehrani was in my office last week saying he thought Skype was going to file an IPO very soon. He thought it was very odd that Skype declined invitations to keynote / speak at TMC's ITEXPO - the...
Skype for iPhone Multitasks & Drops Planned 3G Fee
Rich has the goods on the new Skype for iPhone app, which finally adds multitasking support to the iPhone iOS 4 operating system. Of course, there still isn't any video support. Get on that, will ya Skype? I'd use fring...
Blind Research Study Says Skype Users Prefer ooVoo
ooVoo told me they had recently commissioned a study with some interesting results, which will be released on Monday. A blind study conducted by a third party research firm revealed that ooVoo was preferred by 8 our of 10 Skype...
SkypeKit SDK Comes to Windows & Mac
Linux got the first from Skype when they launched the SkypeKit SDK on Linux before any other operating system. Today, Skype announced SkypeKit availability for both Mac and Windows. This enables almost any desktop application to offer Skype capabilities, including...
fring vs. Skype War
A war between fring and Skype is heating up. fring fired the first salvo when they put out a release claiming Skype was blocking fring. fring wrote:For 4 years we have led mobile communication innovation, most recently with video calling...
fring Video Calling Over 3G on iPhone 4
It was just a matter of time before fring updated their iPhone app to take advantage of the iPhone 4's front-facing camera. That day has arrived! With the new fring for iPhone you get 2 way video-calling not just...
Skype Reverse Engineered?
According to TechCrunch, someone named Sean O'Neill is claiming he reverse-engineered Skype, laying bare one of the most closely guarded secrets in VoIP Land. Has Skype's Great Wall of VoIP been cracked? Skype takes protection of their proprietary protocol...
VoIP Phone for $19.99? What?
On Buy.com I came across a VoIP phone listed for $19.99. The product description catches my eye because it says "VoIP/Skype Desktop IP Phone w/Digital Answering System - Use Your Internet Connection to Make Calls! - PH210-PB". So it's...
Skype Manager Reports - FAIL!
A couple of months ago I wrote 'Googlebye Skype Business Control Panel Hello Skype Manager!' , which is a web-based management tool that replaced Skype Business Control Panel (BCP). Well, can we have the old Skype Business Control Panel back?...
Grandstream GXV3140 Dual Stack Skype & SIP Phone
Last year I predicted a dual stack 'Skype' & 'SIP' phone was coming soon. That day has arrived with Grandstream's GXV3140 IP Multimedia Phone, which already supported SIP, but now adds Skype support in their latest firmware. The GXV3140...
SkypeKit SDK adds Skype to Just About Anything
Skype today announced that soon every Internet connected device can now become a Skype endpoint with the addition of the SkypeKit SDK. The Panasonic line of TVs that integrated Skype used an early version of SkypeKit (as well as LG...
Whistle Phone for iPhone & iPad Offers Free Calls
Whistle Phone is a new VoIP application for the iPhone , iPad, and iPod touch which offers free calls anywhere in the U.S. The catch? Well, you have to listen to a ~15s long audio commercial before the call...
Microsoft Kinect Adds Video Chat
Project Natal for the XBOX 360 has just been renamed to Microsoft Kinect. Personally, I prefer the old name. In any event, Microsoft also announced a VoIP & video conferencing app simply called Video Chat. Great, get rid of a...
