Archive for the 'Skype News' Category

Joost, the online video site established by the founders of Skype, has raised $45m in funding from four venture capital and media groups, just a week after launching the service.
Sequioa Capital, which backed Yahoo, Google and YouTube; Index Ventures, an early investor in Skype; Li Ka-shing, the Hong Kong tycoon; and CBS, the US media [...]

SHAPE Services announced the release of a new version of its IM+ for Skype Software for BlackBerry smartphones from Research In Motion (RIM).
IM+ for Skype Software by SHAPE Services is a mobile client for Skype Software. It enables voice and text communication with other Skype users as well as cost-effective calling to landline or mobile [...]

Skype and salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM), the market and technology leader in on-demand customer relationship management (CRM), today announced the availability of a new version of Skype for Salesforce via salesforce.com’s AppExchange. Skype for Salesforce provides seamless Skype integration into Salesforce on-demand CRM applications and aims to improve workforce productivity and to streamline customer and partner [...]

Skype continues to reduce the costs of communication, announcing today that it plans to slash 50% off the cost of sending SMS messages using Skype™.
Sending SMS messages from Skype on a PC or Mac is extremely simple, handy, practical – and now even cheaper.
Skype simplifies the way people keep in touch with one another. Designed [...]

Leave it up to the kooks at Buffalo to come up with a strange design like this. This conference call speaker looks more like an overgrown gas mask or some sort of strange space ship than an actual useful device. But that shouldn’t take away from its functionality, right?

Fully compatible with Skype, the Buffalo BSKP-CU202 [...]

Skype has announced that there have been more than 10 million downloads of Skype Extras since the Extras Manager in Skype™ 3.0 for Windows was launched in late December 2006. Extras are plug-ins written by independent third-party developers that let users expand Skype functionality and enrich their Skype conversations.
I asked Paul Amery, Director of [...]

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.
This popular VoIP telephony service also allows users to make dirt cheap phone calls to landlines and mobile phones [...]

GadgetCandy and Skype have teamed up to give away five swanky Skype phones. The Philips VoIP841 looks the business and works a treat, too. Now how about the chance to win one?
The chic cordless ‘Net handset can carry all your Skype calls, but doesn’t require a PC. It’ll synchronise with your existing Skype contacts so [...]

Playing on the sex factor like a lot of worms do, the Mal/Pykse-A worm is spreading via Skype’s IM chat system.
The worm poses as a link to a photograph of a young woman. Clicking on the link does display an image of a scantily clad model wearing stiletto heeled shoes, but only after infecting the [...]

Skype today released Skype 2.6 Beta for Mac, the latest version of the company’s popular communication software. New to this release of Skype for Mac is Call Transfer. This feature enables you to transfer ongoing Skype calls to other users on your Skype contact list. The new release also features improved audio quality and better [...]