Archive for the 'Skype News' Category

eBay Snoring, Skype Roaring - GigaOM
Skype continued its strong growth trajectory, reporting $126 million in revenue for the quarter, representing 61% year-over-year growth. Skype added 33 million registered users in the quarter, ending the period with more than 309 million registered users around the world. Skype now has the largest registered user base within eBay [...]

CallGraph.in - Free Skype Recorder | Visit CallGraph.in
Call Graph is handy piece of freeware for all you Skype junkies out there. It’ll let you record your conversations in MP3. So should you want to listen to a particularly funny conversation you had with Aunt Sally in Bolivia on your iPod, it’s possible. It’s also a [...]

FCC to Turn Down Skype’s Mobile Open Access Plea - washingtonpost.com
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has set enough rules requiring that mobile networks are open so it won’t approve a petition from Skype that would have required mobile operators to allow any application to run on their networks, said the commission’s head.The move is a [...]

Record Skype Calls as MP3s with Call Graph | Lifehacker Australia
Windows only: Freeware plug-in Call Graph integrates with the popular VoIP application Skype to record your Skype as MP3s and organize those recordings with a simple interface. Once installed, you can set Call Graph to automatically record all of your Skype calls, or you can [...]

 Tech News World

Research firm Garter cited several things that eBay “got right” with the $2.6 billion buy of Skype. However, some of the expected synergies from the Skype buy never materialized. “Is Skype a viable entity, is it a valuable?” asked Will Stofega, research manager for VoIP services at IDC. “Yes,” he told the E-Commerce [...]

 PC World

Rapidly growing telco Gotalk has signed an exclusive agreement with US-based company Safeway to bring the Blackhawk gift card network to Australia.
The Blackhawk network, a part of the popular US gift card “Store-on-a-Stand” kiosk, sells many different telco gift cards as a part of its service. Gotalk’s CEO Steve Picton hopes that by bringing [...]

 Profy
Niklas Zennstrom, co-founder of the globally phenomenal VoIP institution, Skype, recently spoke at a conference in Budapest about the company’s substantial success in a supposed effort to quell unease about seemingly low financial returns recently released by the entity’s proprietor, eBay.Currently occupied with running the IPTV venture, Joost, Zennstrom highlighted Skype’s achievement of attaining some [...]

 TMCnet

Web auctioneer eBay (News - Alert) has reportedly blocked embedded voice links from JAJAH on its auction site. Jajah says this move by eBay raises concerns about anti-competitive behavior. According to Jajah, eBay removed listings of sellers who used Jajah’s technology. Some times ago, Jajah had introduced a technology called ‘Buttons,’ which let potential buyers connect [...]

  Swissinfo

Criminals are increasingly using the internet telephone service Skype to prevent their conversations being monitored, Swiss law enforcement officials have warned.
Investigators are currently pursuing dozens of drug-related cases where Skype has been used for communications purposes. But the firm is keeping quiet over the issue.
 
Skype software lets computer users talk to each other for free [...]

 Rapid TV News
Skype’s co-founders have – almost - left the building!
Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, the co-founders of VoIP service Skype have resigned, and there are signs that all is not well at eBay which paid a mind-numbing pile of cash for Skype. The inventive paid are also the brains behind web-based download service Joost. [...]