Skype News

Wednesday, July 9th

• Skype trys SME managed VoIP market

  Skype is attempting to crack into the small to medium enterprise (SME) VoIP market, saying it can reduce costs and allow companies to work on a global scale....

Saturday, April 28th

• Hardware Makers Give Skype VoIP Users the Gift of Mobility

  Over the past couple of years, Skype has gained acceptance as one of the easiest ways to save money on long-distance phone calls, allowing users from anywhere in the world to converse for free over the internet....

Tuesday, April 17th

• Skype to test VoIP service for the enterprise

  Skype is in the early stages of testing an enterprise-class version of its service and is soliciting interest in an early adopter programme by businesses with more than 1000 employees....

Monday, January 22nd

• 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. ...

Friday, January 12th

• Skype to Continue Targeting Enterprise VoIP Market

  Online VoIP provider, Skype, recently stated that it will continue to target the business market by catering to a number of specific business needs....

Thursday, September 21st

• 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

• 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

• 
  http://www.digitimes.com/systems/a20060608VL203.html title="Skype Provider News"> 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. ...

Wednesday, April 5th

• IOGEAR Simplifies VoIP Calls for 40 Million Skype Users

  IOGEAR is turning desktops and laptops into Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) phone systems for small and home office users (SOHO) with the introduction of its USB VoIP Skype Calling Kit....

Tuesday, March 28th

• SKYPE Becomes a Real-Time Office for the International Team of AVANTOURE Magazine

  An international team of a new multimedia magazine AVANTOURE have chosen SKYPE as their real-time office and a preferred means of communication while working on the pilot issue of AVANTOURE magazine. SKYPE enabled the AVANTOURE creative team, based in the USA (New York), UK (London), Russia (Moscow) and Italy, to stay in touch, have video conference calls, hold editorial and design meetings, send instant messages, and exchange files in real time environment....

Sunday, March 26th

• 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

• 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....

• Skype's New Business Offering Under Fire

  A perception that Skype’s VoIP solutions aren’t ready for prime time may hold back the growth of the company’s new small-business offering, solution providers say. ...

Monday, March 13th

• Panasonic teams up with Skype

  Panasonic has announced a dual VoIP and DECT landline phone in conjunction with Skype at CeBIT in Hannover, Germany. ...

Tuesday, March 7th

• IT warned against Skype hype

  A new report has warned businesses to take security into account before deciding to allow the Skype VoIP service to run free on a company network....

Monday, March 6th

• Burton Group Report Debunks Hype Over Skype for Enterprises

  Significant cost savings and improved communications are luring enterprise organizations to consider Skype. However, according to a report from in-depth IT research firm, Burton Group, Skype may violate some enterprise information management and security policies. Burton Group recommends enterprises assess the risks vs. rewards of Skype as the simplest solution for evaluating its use....

Wednesday, January 18th

• Salesforce.com adding Adobe, Skype programs

  Salesforce.com Inc., which sells Internet-based business software, saidAdobe Systems Inc. and Skype Technologies SA joined its service for making programs available online to subscribers. ...

Thursday, January 5th

• 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, December 27th

• 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....

Thursday, December 15th

• Discover Why Free Skype Download Videos Will Eliminate Business Voip Service Providers From The Marketplace

  Unless you have been hiding under a rock for the last 18 months then you would have heard of Skype. Just in case it passed you by here is a brief expanation....

Wednesday, December 7th

• 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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Wednesday, November 30th

• Skype Finds New Acceptance in the Enterprise

  A new quarterly report from Wainhouse Research’s WebMetrics program says that 70 percent of survey respondents who had used Skype in the last six months found the voice over IP service acceptable for business calls. Some 17 percent of those surveyed said they use it often, 27 percent said they occasionally use it for business, and 27 percent said they find it acceptable for business use, but do not use it for that purpose. Only 5 percent of the respondents said it was unacceptable for business or personal use. ...

Friday, November 25th

• Skype goes mobile

  A new Skype-certified Motorola Bluetooth-enabled headset enables mobile phone users to make Voip calls as well as conventional mobile phone calls....

Monday, November 14th

• 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....

Saturday, November 12th

• The REAL reason for controlling Skype within the Enterprise

  A call has been made to enterprises to ban Skype - or at least take steps to ensure it is secured. Five reasons for an enterprise to ban Skype in a corporate environment are outlined....

Wednesday, November 2nd

• 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....

Tuesday, October 25th

• Skype groups itself for business

  Skype wants to get into businesses, with the announcement that it is allowing centralised distribution of its paid-for services so that businesses can set up accounts across a company from a single point. ...

Tuesday, October 11th

• 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:...

• Skype Makes Bid for Small Business Market

  Internet phone service provider Skype announced Thursday it had joined forces with a U.S.-based company to package its consumer-oriented calling product with a data service that would make it a viable player in the business-to-business market for voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) services....

Friday, September 16th

• 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. ...

Tuesday, August 16th

• Two ways of calling Skype wirelessly: DECT and Nokia

  Two wireless Skype solutions have been uncovered. One uses a standard DECT phone to make calls, the other harnesses the Nokia Series 60 Symbian software interface....

Saturday, July 9th

• Skype plays to the smaller business

  Leigh Bolton, director of a small London-based energy and environmental consulting company, is one of the many business users of Skype. Consensia has used it to make phone calls around the world 'almost since we first heard about it two years ago', he says....

Wednesday, June 8th

• Palm vets put Skype on a thumb drive

  It isn't quite a phone, but it soon will be possible to take a Skype client with you and plug it into a barenaked PC equipped with a USB port. U3, the Silicon Valley start-up launched by Palm veterans earlier this year, says it will support a portable Skype on its flash-based platform from this fall....

Friday, May 27th

• Skype to release VoWLAN phone

  The CEO of voice-over-IP provider Skype told a conference earlier this week that the company plans to offer its customers a phone that can connect to its voice network via Wi-Fi networks, the Reuters press service has reported....

• Skype shows business limitations

  Skype and other types of free PC-to-PC phone services are much maligned by 'serious' voice-over-IP (VoIP) vendors who make a living out of selling large-scale IP telephony systems to businesses. They argue that, having experienced the poor audio quality and performance of products like Skype, firms will be put off IP telephony altogether....