Archive for the 'Skype News' Category

In late December, a security firm sent out an alert that a worm was spreading via Skype. It turned out to be a false alarm.
No worm has spread on Skype, and while security experts have painted a target on the popular Internet telephony application, its defenses have been pretty solid, according to the company’s chief [...]

Press Release:
Skype launched skySpace, the only media-centric social networking software. skySpace will multiply the volume and quality of information shared among Skype’s 136 million users, creating a new market category.
skySpace empowers Skype users to tell stories by sharing their photos, video, audio, and documents via their skySpace homepage—either privately or to the community at [...]

Skype Ltd. will continue to aim at the business market, adding functions for specific business needs, executives said this week at the company’s development center in Tallinn, Estonia.
The company’s most recent 3.0 version of its software allows system administrators to configure and control Skype use across an enterprise and Skype will build on that. [...]

Apparently upset by the dominance of Microsoft’s media downloading program iTunes Skype and Sony have decided to introduce their own programs as counters to the well known program.
 Sony’s offering is to begin to allow movie downloads onto their PSP handheld unit.

 Initially the Microsoft service will allow users to download the movies onto their PCs and [...]

eBay owned VoIP software maker Skype has released the beta version of Skype 2.2. This application now allows Windows Mobile smart phones to access their VoIP services over a Wi-Fi internet connection.
Earlier versions of this application only supported the Windows Pocket PC devices.
Skype claims that this newly updated version works on 120 different Windows Mobile [...]

Readers who purchased either the Netgear or Belkin Skype phones should remember that free U.S. and Canada Skypeout calling is only good ’til the end of the year. Starting January ‘07, you’ll have to pay $29.95 for unlimited yearly calling. Pretty cheap, if you compare that your landline or cellphone bill.

Plus, if you order before [...]

YOU’RE going away on business and want to stay in touch with friends and family back home. Mobile phones, e-mail and instant messaging are all fine. But how much more heartening it would be if you could see your loved ones, as well as hear and swap messages with them.
Well, you don’t have to pay [...]

After a bit of a sticky start with the Korean authorities, Skype is now said tobe offering SkypeIn to South Korean users. The new service will be offered with local online auction site, appropriately called Auction.
eBay, which owns Skype, also owns more than a 99-percent stake in the Korean site, Auction.
Skype initially ran foul of [...]

Enterprises are facing increased security and compliance risks due to the unmanaged use of Skype on corporate networks, according to a recent survey conducted by Akonix Systems, Inc., provider of the most deployed instant messaging (IM) security and compliance products in the world.
In a September 2006 survey, nearly 43% of respondents claimed that Skype is [...]

Continuing to expand its line of Skype-powered products, the networking company launched the USR9640 USR Mini Cam for Skype yesterday.
Aside from being dirt cheap for a Webcam/headphone setup (just $40), it’s optimized for Skype, features true 1.3-megapixel capture capability and full-motion video at up to 30 frames per second due in part to some support [...]