Archive for the 'Skype News' Category

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

StreamCast Networks, developer of Morpheus file-sharing software, lost its $4.1 billion lawsuit in U.S. District Court against Skype and parent eBay. StreamCast claimed that Skype’s founders broke an agreement to give StreamCast the right of first refusal to Skype’s VoIP phone technology. The founder had been with Kazaa at the time.
The judge ruled that StreamCast [...]

For those who are on the bleeding edge of Skype-ness, version 2.5 for Mac has come out of beta today and is now available for download as a final version. The final release is actually version 2.5.0.85, for everyone keeping track.

The new point release for the popular VoIP service supports sending SMS messages to [...]

Skype plans to announce a partnership next week with a security company to help organisations gain control over usage of the net telephony tool at work.
The partnership is with California-based FaceTime Communications, a maker of software and appliances that let businesses monitor and secure use of instant message tools on their networks, people familiar with [...]

Yesterday Skype reached 9 million peak concurrent users. Read more about it at on the Skype Blog. But despite the new record, growth does seem to be slowing considerably. I have mentioned before that peak concurrent users is not the only criteria to asses growth but it is certainly the easiest metric to access.
Blogger Jean [...]

Internet auction giant Ebay has admitted that it’s disappointed by the revenue return generated by its voice-over IP company Skype, which it acquired in 2005.
Despite Skype’s registered user numbers tripling to 171m by the end of 2006, Ebay’s CEO Meg Whitman told an investor conference that efforts to monetise the service had not lived up [...]

A federal judge has thrown out an antitrust lawsuit filed by the distributor of Morpheus file-sharing software against Internet phone service provider Skype Technologies SA, eBay Inc. and other defendants.
StreamCast Networks Inc. had sought more than $4.1 billion in unspecified damages and a court order blocking eBay from selling Skype services.
In her Jan. 18 ruling [...]

Consumers have yet to recognize the shotgun wedding between the Internet and television, but that hasn’t stopped companies from rolling out devices and programs that will bring the two together. Last week, for instance, Netflix debuted its streaming video service, and the founders of Skype put a brand name on their new project, a peer-to-peer [...]

Ever wondered when Internet TV quality would go beyond the sub-VHS quality seen on sites like Youtube to the more high-def experience capable on the latest TVs and supported by TV networks around the globe?
Of course, Microsoft’s Xbox 360 delivers this in the US through the Xbox Live video download service, where users can [...]

Skype is setting Internet conversations free at the 2007 International Consumer Electronics Show with the debut of the first available Skype desktop Internet phones, bringing more flexibility in how users place Skype Internet calls at home or at work.
The two new desktop Internet phones announced are IPEVO’s Solo.1 and TOPCOM’s Webt@lker 5000 with Skype.

New Skype [...]