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    <title>Skype Outage Problem Yesterday</title>
    <summary>I received word from various sources that Skype was having problems yesterday morning. So while in the press room at ITEXPO I fired up Skype, sign-ed in and was able to use it. Hmm. No problem here. I let it...</summary>
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      <name>Tom Keating</name>
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      <![CDATA[<span style="display: inline;" class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image"><img height="72" width="140" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 20px 20px; float: right;" class="mt-image-right" src="http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/tom-keating/images/skype-logo.png" alt="" /></span>I received word from various sources that Skype was having problems yesterday morning. So while in the press room at <a href="http://www.tmcnet.com/voip/conference/">ITEXPO</a> I fired up Skype, sign-ed in and was able to use it. Hmm. No problem here. I let it go until later that evening when I met with a Skype executive at Andy Abramson's Bloggers' Dinner. He told me there was a 3.5 hour sign-in issue causing some users to not be able to logon.<br /><br />That's the same problem (sign on issues) that happened in 2007. <a href="http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/tom-keating/skype-outage.asp">August 16,2007 outage redux</a>? No <a href="http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/tom-keating/skype/skype-outage-caused-by-windows-update.asp">Windows Update to blame this time</a>.<br /><br />You can read a brief explanation on the <a href="http://heartbeat.skype.com/2010/01/sign_in_server_problems.html">Skype heartbeat page</a>.]]>
      
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