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Thursday, January 3rd
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Skype VoIP headed to PSP
One of the more anticipated new features is voice over IP support, which was announced during the Leipzig Games Convention as coming to European PSPs this month as part of the Go!Messenger service. At the time, Sony limited its reveal of the Internet-enabled phone service to PAL territories, but it now appears phone functionality will indeed be coming to stateside PSPs as well. ...
Tuesday, December 11th
Thursday, November 29th
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Study Finds 95 Of VoIP Traffic Is Skype
German traffic management company, ipoque, has released a study that shows 95 per cent of all Internet VoIP traffic is Skype traffic. The study was conducted in five regions during August and September 2007 and looked also at P2P traffic, video streaming, instant messaging (IM) and file hosting. ...
Friday, November 23rd
Sunday, November 4th
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Can Skype really match the hype?
CONSUMERS have been warned that using Skype, the software that offers cheap or free phone calls over the internet, could cost you more than traditional calls....
Friday, October 26th
Wednesday, October 17th
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Skype Brings VoIP to MySpace
MySpace will give its millions of members the ability to engage in free voice chats via the MySpace instant messaging service, thanks to a partnership with VOIP provider Skype....
Tuesday, October 9th
Thursday, October 4th
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eBay, Jajah in VoIP Showdown
Internet voice service provider Jajah on Thursday said that web auctioneer eBay blocked the use of the startup's embedded voice links on its auction site, a move Jajah said raises concerns about anti-competitive behavior....
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Skype Shuffle: Is It a Stumble (Upon) or a New Paradigm for eBay?
This week's news about eBay and Skype seemed pretty bad at first. Ebay is taking a $1.4 billion charge against its Q3 earnings to pay off Skype's shareholders early as part of its original deal to buy the VoIP upstart. Meanwhile, the remaining founder of Skype is stepping down as CEO. Most press coverage summed the news up as a sign that eBay paid far too much for Skype in the first place and is only now accepting that reality. Very little thought or attention was paid to the underlying questions of what eBay is going to do with Skype....
Saturday, August 18th
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Skype back in service after two-day outage
Skype Ltd. announced late Friday that all users could now again log on to the voice-over-IP service, marking the end of an outage that affected millions and lasted more than 48 hours. ...
Friday, August 17th
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Skype outage could test users’ loyalty
Engineers at Skype, the internet-based telephone and message service, appeared to have solved a software problem on Friday that had shut down the system for more than 24 hours and left many of its 220m customers without service....
Thursday, August 16th
Tuesday, August 14th
Saturday, April 28th
Wednesday, January 31st
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Skype Licenses HelloSoft's VoIP Technology
Promising to enhance the performance of Skype for Windows Mobile, Skype has teamed up with HelloSoft. HelloSoft, a provider of VoIP products, announced today that Skype has licensed its Internet telephony technology, which will be incorporated into Skype’s communication software. HelloSoft’s technology will allow consumers to enjoy free, high-quality voice calls anywhere their smartphones and Pocket PCs can connect to the Internet. ...
Friday, January 26th
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Zoom around the Globe with a Pocket-sized VoIP Adapter
Odds are good that you, or at the very least someone in your family, has 'Skyped' someone. You probably plugged your headset into your PC, logged onto Skype, and dialed away.
And why not? It’s a remarkably inexpensive way to talk to colleagues, family, and friends.
But wouldn’t it be easier to simply pick up your phone and call — without sacrificing the cost benefits of VoIP?...
Wednesday, January 24th
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$4.1 Billion VoIP Service Lawsuit against Skype Dismissed
According to an AP news report, U.S. District Court Judge Florence-Marie Cooper has dismissed the more than $4.1 billion antitrust lawsuit filed by StreamCast Networks against VoIP service provider Skype, eBay and more than a dozen defendants....
Monday, January 22nd
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ClearLink Ships VoIP USB Phone Adapter for Skype
TRENDnet has started shipping its ClearLink VoIP USB Phone Adapter (Model TVP-SP5G). This pocket sized product links your telephone to your computer via USB connection and allows you to make Voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) calls, using Skype, from your standard phone. Now you have the choice to make and receive either a standard call or a Skype call when you pick up your phone. Users can take advantage of free Skype to Skype calling, Skype subscription plans, or keep in contact with regular phone users with their existing telephone. ...
Wednesday, December 13th
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Skype Intros Unlimited VoIP Calling Plan
Skype introduced today a new annual, paid subscription Unlimited VoIP Calling plan. This is the first time that Skype is giving its users the opportunity to sign up for a whole year of unlimited SkypeOut calling to any phone within the U.S. and Canada for less than $15. ...
Friday, December 8th
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India Bans Skype and Other VOIP Options
The Indian Government claims that they are losing alot of money due to the increasing popularity of Skype and VOIP. They are missing out on the 12% tax and 6% fees....
Friday, December 1st
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Skype's VoIP Client now Available on X-Series from 3, Enabled by iSkoot
Originally set to launch on December 15th, the Skype enabled X-Series handsets from 3 are actually available today in UK. The devices, which use the iSkootMobile software, are currently available in 3's UK stores, and also in 3's other markets around the world beginning early 2007. ...
Sunday, November 12th
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Waiting for Skype to pay off for eBay
The managers of eBay, the world's largest online auctioneer, had something else in mind in September 2005 when they decided to pay at least $2.6 billion to buy Skype, the pioneer in Internet telephone service then based in Luxembourg....
Thursday, September 21st
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Thomson and Skype to release GE 28300EE2 VoIP phone
You know something's gone mainstream when corporate giants like Thomson and GE get involved, and these two are presumably validating the internet calling craze by teaming up with Skype to release a GE-branded VoIP / conventional landline phone. The GE 28300EE2 isn't too much different than the other computer-free units we've seen, and sports the DECT 6.0 protocol as well as a color LCD screen to view Skype messages and traditional caller ID data. Aside from handling both VoIP and landline duties, the device sports speakerphone, conference calling, a 100-name address book, and 10 hours talk / 120 hours standby time. GE throws in two (conservatively styled) handsets to get you started, but since six units are supported, you can snag a few more to prevent having to move a muscle to communicate with your entire household....
Monday, August 28th
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Keyspan Unveils Skype-Compatible, Cordless VoIP Phone
Keyspan on Monday announced that its new cordless voice-over-IP (VoIP) phone, which is Skype-compatible and goes for about $80, will ship before the end of August, according to an Aug. 28 press release on XTVWorld.com....
Friday, June 9th
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Suncomm shows off VoIP, WiFi and Skype-enabled products at Computex
At Computex, Taiwan communications specialist SunComm Technology is showing a GSM-based VoIP gateway, model SC-375. The unit, located either at the ISP or telco, enables calls from a GSM mobile handset to be routed over IP. Model SC-375C enables calls from a CDMA handset to be routed over IP. The units use the standard SIP protocol (RFC 2543, RFC3261), and the G.711, G.723 or G.729 codecs. Joan Wang, manager of VoIP sales at SunComm, indicated that G.711 is bandwidth heavy, at 64Kbps, and use of G.723 or G.729, or the more recent G.726 codec, would be preferable. The SC-375 gateway is already shipping to the US, Australia and Europe, priced at US$170, in volumes of 140. ...
Thursday, May 25th
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Skype Sued for $4 Billion Over VoIP
StreamCast Networks, the company behind the Peer to Peer (P2P) file sharing program Morpheus, has sued 22 firms including eBay over patent infringement of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) technology....
Thursday, May 18th
Thursday, May 4th
Wednesday, May 3rd
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Skype to launch webcasting software
Skype is almost ready to release a trial version of its Skype Cast software, which will allow up to 100 people to chat online at the same time. ...
Monday, May 1st
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What the Skype/Polycom News Means to VoIP
On the surface, it may not seem like big news... Polycom a leader in conferencing and Skype a leader in VoIP come together to make a new product -- a portable speakerphone that works with Skype. But, aside from allowing you to have conference calls with other Skype users the product is a harbinger of great things to come.
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Friday, April 28th
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Skype rocks out to music ringtones
Skype has signed deals with three music publishing giants that will let its phones rock out to Green Day and 'Chilli Pepper (pictured) ringtones....
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Skype hits 100M subscriber mark
Skype said Friday that it now has more than 100 million registered users of its free Internet-based calling service, nearly double the number of registered users it had in September 2005....
Monday, April 24th
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Skype in EMI distribution deal
eBay's internet telephony wing, Skype, yesterday announced that it had agreed a deal with EMI Music Publishing to distribute its music catalogue online....
Saturday, April 22nd
Thursday, April 20th
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Skype in China censor row
Following news that official Chinese court documents show Yahoo provided Chinese authorities with evidence against a jailed cyber dissident, Skype creator Niklas Zennström says its OK for Chinese partner Tom Onlineto censor text messages....
Tuesday, April 18th
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Speakables for Skype for voice control
Speakables has released Speakables for Skype, its first product for the high growth VOIP market. The company said that the softwarew was developed by speech recognition experts, including a key developer of Apple's Speech Recognition technology. Speakables for Skype works with popular Skype VOIP service, allowing users to manipulate the service using voice commands. Users create a Skype contact list and can initiate calls by just saying the person's name. Skype users will be able to initiate and answer calls, as well as disconnect ongoing calls remotely by using a simple voice command. Speakables for Skype works with Apple's Speakable Items technology which is already included in the Mac OS X platform. It is available for free for Mac OS X 10.2 or later....
Tuesday, April 11th
Wednesday, April 5th
Wednesday, March 29th
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Skype in more hot water over VoIP services
Skype is in trouble again, this time with a company called StreamCast Networks (the developers of Morpheus). StreamCast claims that the P2P technology developed for their Morpheus software is being used without permission by Skype for their telephone services, and thus has filed a lawsuit against them. In a unique twist of things, Skype didn't directly do anything – they continued to operated like normal, while other politics resulted in the infrastructure supporting Skype changing hands. ...
Tuesday, March 28th
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Skype coughs up to UK phone snag
Punters complained that their SkypeIn service, which gives them their own regular phone number so non Skype users can call them, was floored for most of last week....
Monday, March 27th
Sunday, March 26th
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USRobotics Customer Support Offers Access via Skype
USRobotics, a Platinum Equity company, announced the addition of Skype to its Customer Support infrastructure recently. This allows USRobotics customers to call Customer Support via the popular Skype Internet communications software, instead of using their landline telephones....
Thursday, March 16th
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Connect Any Phone To Skype, Including Mobile Phone
Skype is a wonderful program that allows people to talk to each other for free, through the beauty of the internet. Initially users utilized simple mics to communicate, but as the power of the program was discovered, specific phones were designed with the program in mind. While this offers people a free way to make calls, Skype presents a lot of boundaries, which drastically affects the amount of users able to take advantage of the system. Luckily for them, the VoSKY Call Center from Actiontec makes the whole process infinitely more effective and simple....
Tuesday, March 14th
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Skype on 3G Mobile Devices
Skype, the fastest growing Internet Communications Company and Hutchison 3 Group, the leader in 3G mobile services, today announced an agreement to enable Skype communications on 3G....
Monday, March 13th
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BT, Skype woo SMEs
BT has unveiled a computer security service that remotely checks the status of PCs using a broadband line. Typically, a test takes around half an hour and checks a range of potential online threats, including spyware and other known vulnerabilities....
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AvaCon for Skype Video Conferencing
My Skype buddy list is a nice example of unscientific, experiential evidence that the Skype installed userbase is growing exponentially. Not only did several of my existing MSN, AIM and Yahoo! buddies recently sign up for a Skype account, but I'm also rediscovering dear old friends and adding new connections daily. Some of these new connections originate from my recent decision to become a member of the social business networks Ecademy, LinkedIn and OpenBC, other new connections are with software vendors and geeks—of course it's not surprising these people embrace Skype's sheer unbeatable offering. Skype has become even more popular thanks to over a hundred priceless plugins of diverse origin and functionality scope. Browse the Skype Extras Gallery to see which plugins have the most page views. ...
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Panasonic teams up with Skype
Panasonic has announced a dual VoIP and DECT landline phone in conjunction with Skype at CeBIT in Hannover, Germany. ...
Thursday, March 9th
Tuesday, March 7th
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Skype Funders Back AllPeers
File-sharing company AllPeers said Tuesday it received a first round of funding from two venture capital firms that backed last year’s huge peer-to-peer winner, the VoIP service Skype....
Monday, March 6th
Saturday, March 4th
Thursday, March 2nd
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AMD subpoenas Skype over VoIP deal with Intel
Advanced Micro Devices Inc has served Skype Technologies SA a subpoena demanding documentation relating to a new Skype feature for Intel-only machines, as part of its ongoing antitrust case against Intel Corp....
Monday, February 13th
Friday, February 10th
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Skype adds presence feature to VoIP app
Skype on Thursday unveiled a presence feature in its internet telephony software that a company could add to its website so users could see who is available for phone calls....
Thursday, February 9th
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EQO Brings Skype Calling and Online Buddy Lists to Mobile Devices
The EQO Mobile Internet Phone Service for Skype is a new offering that enables individuals to take their Skype buddy lists with them on their cellular phones. With the EQO Mobile Internet Phone Service, users can access Skype, view presence and availability of their buddies, and initiate and receive Skype calls from their mobile phone. ...
Tuesday, February 7th
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Google and Skype fund FON as Cisco joins board
Google and Skype Technologies have taken part in a first round of funding for community WiFi developer FON, while Cisco Systems and both Skype's founding members have joined the board of the Spanish company....
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Meg Whitman says eBay transformation is under way
EBay Inc. is fast moving away from its roots as an online auction site and becoming an electronic-commerce site, President and Chief Executive Officer Meg Whitman said at a press conference Tuesday in Brussels....
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Skype's Still Talking to Itself
Now that it's owned by eBay Inc., Skype Technologies may be close to reversing its long-held policy of not allowing its VOIP calling and instant messenger services to work with other IM and VOIP software clients....
Wednesday, February 1st
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Skype gets music ringtones from Warner Music
On Monday, Warner Music Group announced it agreed to make music available as ringtones for Skype....
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Skype Plans Boost in Audioconferencing
Skype Technologies plans to turn intimate get-togethers into block parties through an audioconferencing service that will allow for conferences with as many as 500 callers....
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Skype figures don't add up
Skype, once by far the dominant IP telephony service, has had its market share cut in half over the past year, according to a new study from network monitoring firm Sandvine....
Monday, January 30th
Tuesday, January 24th
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Skype battles to stay ahead
Mention the idea of making phone calls over the internet and one word is bound to come up. That is Skype, the name of the company that pushed the idea into the public consciousness. It has grown at break-neck speed since it was launched in April 2003....
Monday, January 23rd
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http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/PCWorld/story?id=1532057&ad=true
The big news with this new version of Skype's software is video: Version 2 of Skype's software allows you to make video as well as voice calls over the Internet. Skype isn't the first to offer this capability, though: Programs like Yahoo Messenger and ICQ have been offering video chat for some time. ...
Wednesday, January 18th
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Skype's coming wake-up call
Skype skeptic Matt Asay just got his hands on the Ipevo free.1 phone and confesses that he is having a great time with it. Even though he's finally able to comfortably field an incoming call, that's not to say he's buying the idea that businesses will widely adopt the service. 'I still think Skype and others that rely on someone else's network are going to get a wake-up call at some point. But for now, it's nice that it's free. By the time it's not, it may well be worth paying for,' Asay maintains in My Skype repentance....
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eBay Bristles at Skype Gripe
Shares of the San Jose, Calif., company fell more than 25% last year amid concerns about the company's $2.5 billion acquisition of Internet phone provider Skype Technologies. But this year they are up 5% as analysts point to the healthy growth in eBay's listings of items ranging from jewelry to oddly shaped sweet potatoes. The revival comes as the popularity of Internet shopping soars....
Monday, January 9th
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Skype releases latest Mac version
The free software adds a number of new features to the service, including call forwarding and auto-answer. It will also automatically pause iTunes when a Skype call is answered. Mac OS X version 1.4 is also available in Japanese for the first time....
Thursday, January 5th
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Skype Certifies More VoIP Devices
Skype Technologies S.A. has been making a lot of noise in the news lately. The VoIP service provider has made announcements left and right about deals with multiple electronics manufacturers in order to certify headsets, wireless phones, and other VoIP devices so they are compatible with Skype's Internet telephony service. The latest to join the group is mobile phone headset manufacturer Aliph of San Francisco, Calif....
Tuesday, January 3rd
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Kodak takes telecom partner for 'net Photo Voice
Rochester's largest employer and Skype, the up-and-coming Internet telephone company headquartered in Luxembourg, will cooperate on technology that will allow customers in different locations to view images and talk about them live over personal computers. ...
Tuesday, December 27th
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Linksys to launch VoIP handset for Skype
The telephone, called Linksys CIT200, will be launched in Brazil and is targeted at Skype users, enabling them to call anywhere via their home computer. The phone operates up to 20 meters from the PC, according to the report....
Friday, December 23rd
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Skype and Google Talk Users Unite with Festoon Unity Plug-In
Santa Cruz Networks has added a new feature to its popular Festoon plug-in, which has the potential to unite the approximately 453 million global instant messaging users. Festoon Unity now connects users of Skype and Google Talk and support for AOL Instant Messenger is slated for 2006....
Tuesday, December 20th
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Skype update - what's next?
Last week, we hosted Michael Jackson, Director of Paid Services at Skype, for an update on his company's progress. Jackson runs the revenue-generating part of the business, which includes most of Skype's activities, apart from the core activity of software development (which now includes some 200 software developers). Jackson is something of a veteran in the competitive voice market; for example, being Tele2's first employee outside Sweden. ...
Monday, December 19th
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How to: Record Skype calls with Nicecast
Podcasting is all the rage and we at journalism.co.uk have been searching for a neat solution for recording our key Skype telephone interviews straight to MP3 files....
Sunday, December 11th
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Skype 2.0 eats its young
Skype, a division of eBay launched Skype 2.0 beta for Windows. Just in time for some customers who got their passwords compromised. The elaborate press release and WSJ review while impressive don’t help mask the fact that, Skype is short on new ground breaking ideas. ...
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China Netcom Denied Contact with Skype over VoIP Service
A China Netcom official denied rumor that the mobile operator is in talks with Skype on promotion of VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) service. At the moment, a handful of Internet users have subscribed for the VoIP service, and it is hard to say whether the Internet is capable of bearing huge traffics if the service is in commercial use, the official said.
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Friday, December 9th
Thursday, December 8th
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Skype offers Click to Call
Net voice calling company Skype has made its first Click to Call offering, where you can simply click a number within a web page and automatically connect a VoIP call to the number....
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Is Skype Headed For The Skids?
Skype may seem as if it's riding high right now, but there are disturbing signs that it could be heading for the skids, several months after eBay paid more money for it that you and I can count....
Wednesday, December 7th
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Review: Skype handset makes VoIP easier
If you live outside your home country or phone overseas often, chances are you've heard of Skype, the voice-over-Internet service that allows you to make free or cheap voice calls through your computer.
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Saturday, December 3rd
Wednesday, November 30th
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Clues emerge in PayPal's Skype integration roadmap
First, the easy stuff. As eBay properties, Skype and PayPal are now siblings of a sort. And PayPal, Internet payment processing wizards that they be, has the infrastructure to offer all sorts of payment options to various classes of Skype users....
Tuesday, November 29th
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Confessions of a VoIP guru: why I sold Skype
Selling to eBay was a “good” move because it empowers Skype to thwart competition from Web giants like Microsoft and Google, Niklas Zennstrom, company co-founder has revealed, in a declaration that should settle industry wonder....
Monday, November 28th
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A speaker phone for Skype users
Internet phone calls can be free, but it's a nuisance when you have to make the calls on an uncomfortable headset connected to your personal computer....
Sunday, November 27th
Friday, November 25th
Thursday, November 24th
Tuesday, November 22nd
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Skype Thinks Outside the PC Box with Partner Push
Skype Technologies, S.A. recently announced that it has signed a deal with RadioShack Corporation to distribute the first Skype-certified Motorola Bluetooth-enabled phones and headsets in America, making it the first U.S. retailer to offer this Internet phone service....
Sunday, November 20th
Friday, November 18th
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Skype to make U.S. retail debut
The Luxembourg-based Net telephony company, founded by the people behind the Kazaa peer-to-peer service, is expected to announce on Monday that it has struck a partnership with consumer electronics chain RadioShack. ...
Monday, November 14th
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Actiontec Unleashes Skype Speakerphone
The VoSKY Chatterbox is a plug-and-play device that connects to a PC's USB port. Actiontec's Chatterbox is small but capable; it has a voice pick-up range of 12 feet and offers enhanced sound quality through digital signal processing (DSP) and echo cancellation. The full-duplex speakerphone is equipped with a mute feature, volume control, and headset jack....
Wednesday, November 2nd
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USRobotics Ships USR809600 Skype-compatible USB Handset
USRobotics, a leader in internet access and networking known for quality, innovation and performance, today announced the shipment of its USB internet Phone, the USR809600. The phone, the first from the companyâs new Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) product line, is designed to integrate seamlessly with the Skype internet telephony application....
Wednesday, October 26th
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Experts warn of highly critical Skype vulnerabilities
Security experts today warned of a trio of 'highly critical' vulnerabilities that has been discovered in Skype’s VoIP client software, which can be exploited by malicious hackers to cause DoS attacks, or to take remote control of compromised systems....
Monday, October 17th
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Skype sees Microsoft as biggest VoIP rival
Internet phone-calling phenomenon Skype Technologies SA, which was bought by on-line auction company eBay Inc. for almost $4-billion (U.S.) last week, said it sees computer giant Microsoft Corp. as one of its biggest potential rivals....
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Skype's Zennstroem back to work after $4 bln sale
Three days after closing the sale for close to $4 billion of the business he started two years ago, Skype's chief executive and co-founder Niklas Zennstroem said on Monday it was back to business as usual....
Sunday, October 16th
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Skype personalizes VoIP with ringtones and pictures
Skype's version 1.4 for Windows includes ring tones, sounds, pictures, improved sound quality and free call forwarding. Users can forward their calls to any other phone (landline or cell) or send the call to another Skype account....
Wednesday, October 12th
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The New Skype-EBay Ecosystem
When eBay agreed to plunk down $2.6 billion for Internet phone company Skype (a deal that could exceed $4 billion if certain milestones are met), both companies gave a 78-slide PowerPoint presentation. Several of the slides mentioned upstart company Jyve, which develops applications for the Skype platform....
Tuesday, October 11th
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The Skoop on the Skype phone
Tom Keating offers a nice scoop about the new 'Skype phone' from Linksys on his blog. It’s basically a wireless home-style phone that lets you talk to folks on Skype while you cook, clean, and help your kids with their homework. Here are the features I think are cool about it:...
Monday, October 10th
Thursday, October 6th
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GoRemote and Skype Bring Free Internet Phone Calls to Mobile Workforces
GoRemote today announced a strategic partnership with Skype, the Global Internet Communications Company, that will further the capabilities of remote working for today's professional. Now, IT managers and CIOs can provide their mobile workers and teleworkers with free Skype phone calls to anyone with an Internet connection using GoRemote's secure mobile broadband solutions: GoRemote Mobile Office and GoRemote Teleworker. This agreement stands to accelerate the adoption of free calls over the Internet for mobile workers by combining the capabilities of Skype with the GoRemote Global Network, the world's largest virtual business network....
Saturday, October 1st
Friday, September 30th
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Skype's Next Phase
Not surprisingly, eBay's multibillion-dollar deal to acquire Skype suddenly thrust Skype, and VOIP, into the limelight. But what does this mean for a company that started off as a cool way to chat across the Internet? ExtremeVOIP's Mark Hachman sits down with Skype's head of developer relations, Lenn Pryor -- virtually, of course, across a Skype connection -- to ask about the company's integration plans, Skype as a development platform, and how Skype will migrate from the PC and to the mobile phone....
Thursday, September 29th
Wednesday, September 21st
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Big Payday for a Skype Investor
The news of eBay's purchase of Skype for $2.6 billion dominated the tech blogosphere last week -- with good reason. The deal conjured up memories of wilder Internet days, when major acquisitions were commonplace, despite vague business models and scant revenues. It also reminded us how quickly an idea can command real value from investors (Skype is just two years old) and how lucrative the venture capital business can be....
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eBay and Skype - Where now For Telcos?
It has been a very busy few weeks in the IP telephony market. Two weeks ago Microsoft dived in and bought Teleo. Last week the best known VoIP (Voice over IP) supplier, Skype, announced that it had reached an agreement to be acquired by eBay. These moves do more than simply confirm the growing use of VoIP as an acceptable form of communications. They indicate that the worst fears of the large Telcos may be about to come true – and start hurting their long cherished, and highly profitable, telephone call revenues....
Monday, September 19th
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Skype's "Aha!" Experience
Eyebrows were raised from Wall Street to Warsaw when online auction giant eBay revealed on Sept. 12 it would acquire Internet telephony darling Skype for $2.6 billion, and cough up an additional $1.5 billion if certain performance goal are reached. Incorporated in Luxembourg and based in London and Tallinn, Estonia, Skype may well have been the fastest-growing Internet service ever, piling up an eye-popping 54 million users in just over two years....
Friday, September 16th
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Skype Me: VoIP Market Surging
Market revenue for wireline VOIP equipment is expected to more than triple between 2004 and 2010 due to an explosion in the number of residential VoIP users during the next few years....
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New USB phone aimed at Skype users sells out in 2 days
The first USB (universal serial bus) phone developed by a new Taiwanese venture focusing on hardware products for use with Skype's VoIP (voice over Internet protocol) software sold out in just 50 hours in Taiwan, a company representative said Friday. ...
Thursday, September 15th
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Skype looks set to become intercom of the Internet
Skype's value-added services - SkypeOut, SkypeIn and Skype Voicemail - provide the company with a small but growing revenue stream, and enables users of the software to call regular fixed-line and mobile phones at discounted rates....
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Will Skype Be Worth The Hype?
This week was marked by two blockbuster deals, the first being Oracle's purchase of rival business applications software developer Siebel with the other, and more interesting deal being eBay's $2.6 billion purchase of voice over Luxembourg based internet protocol (VoIP) provider Skype....
Tuesday, September 13th
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Why eBay Is Buying Skype
Here's my quick take, below, an edited version of which will appear in a few hours at businessweek.com. CEO Meg Whitman & Co. gave an impassioned rationale for the deal. I can certainly see that if Skype meets its ambitious goals, the deal could pay off eventually. It's also a heckuva lot of money for a nascent business, no matter what the growth and the promise--and one in an entirely new area in which eBay has no experience. No matter how you look at it, it's a whale of a bet....
Monday, September 12th
Friday, September 9th
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Why Skype Can Play Hard to Get
Another week, another report that Skype's in talks to sell itself. In the past month, the Web-calling dynamo has been linked with Internet portal Yahoo and media powerhouse News Corp. This time, say The Wall Street Journal and New York Post, Skype may be snapped up by online auctioneer eBay. ...
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Skype Blocked in China
The Shenzhen branch of China Telecom, China’s largest telecommunications carrier, has begun blocking VoIP calls in a possible effort to stanch the massive loss of revenue it could sustain if a substantial percentage of that country’s 100 million Internet users switch their long-distance calling to services like Skype....
Thursday, September 8th
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Skype updated with new features, improvements
Skype Technologies S.A. has released Skype 1.3.0.8, a new version of their Voice over IP (VoIP) telephony program. The free software enables you to voice chat, instant message or transfer files for free to other Skype users, make calls to cell phone numbers and land lines using its paid SkypeOut service, or accept incoming phone calls using the optional SkypeIn service....
Monday, September 5th
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Skype signs first 3G mobile partner
Skype has secured a deal with German network operator E-Plus, representing the Internet telephony firm’s first 3G partnership. Starting in October, the deal will see Skype software included in E-Plus' flat-rate data subscription, allowing people to gain both a high bandwidth Internet connection and free, Skype calling over the mobile network.
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