Archive for the 'Skype News' Category

Oracle released the results of a global Communications industry survey, conducted on its behalf, by the Economist Intelligence Unit, revealing that over 80 percent of industry executives believe that voice calls will no longer make-up the primary revenue source for communications carriers within six years. Furthermore, over half of the senior executives questioned believe this [...]

It has taken more than three years, but the Skype peer to peer telephony client has reached a milestone that makes it one of the most downloaded free pieces of software on the planet.
The first Skype client was introduced in beta format at the end of August 2003 slightly over 42 months ago. Since then [...]

On Wednesday night, Skype launched a new beta of a service that would allow any user with the latest updated version of the software to charge for voice and video calls placed to their account.
The beta, dubbed “Skype Prime,” allows users to have the option to either charge by the minute or a single charge [...]

There’s something tremendously appealing about making phone calls for free, and that’s made easier when you can quickly link up to your home’s Wi-Fi network and make calls over the Internet without even needing a PC. That’s what you get with Panasonic’s KX-WP1050 Skype Wi-Fi handset, and along for the ride comes slim and attractive [...]

Skype is a peer-to-peer (P2P) application, meaning that users connect to one another directly and not through a central server for communication. Skype initially uses Internet-based servers to authenticate users when they log in and to track their status, but when a “chat” or instant message, “voice call” or “file transfer” is initiated, the parties [...]

I was extremely annoyed by eBay’s (EBAY) Skype acquisition, and the consequent stock price drop that eBAY delivered. Needless to say I am an eBAY shareholder, albeit a rather restless one at the moment.
Now that Skype is inside eBAY, however, I’d really like to see it perform, grow, deliver the grandiose numbers that were projected [...]

Skype Ltd. is looking to a 1968 ruling by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to open up the country’s mobile phone industry for “unlocked” devices and third-party applications — such as Skype.
On this topicVonage subscriber growth slowsNokia Siemens Networks: IP all the wayMobile VOIP is on the marchThe Business Case for Unified MessagingExperts Weigh In: [...]

Although Skype 3.0 was just released a few months ago, a new public beta version has already been made available. Skype 3.1 brings to the table, among other things, including a new business search feature.
SkypeFind is the main addition to 3.1, and Skype is calling it a feature that allows users to find and review [...]

VoIP firm Skype wants the Federal Communications Commission to force cellular providers into letting people have more choice about how they connect to those wireless networks.
Professor Tim Wu at Columbia Law School has spurred Skype and the wireless trade group CTIA into a vocal spat that has resonated at the FCC. Buoyed by Wu’s paper [...]

According to Quick Jump, Skype could be making it’s way to the Playstation Portable in the foreseeable future. They went searching in the PSP’s encrypted firmware (Firmware 3.10) and found traces that some form of VoIP functionality will be enabled soon.

Skype may be coming to the PSP | Gadgetell