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Skype Spying Debacle
Blog Comment As for skype, it sounds as though there marketing dept was given complete free reign to do and say "whatever it takes" to get the trade. I hope I am wrong too. It's hard to know where you can make a stand when it comes to survailence.
[October 13, 2008, 11:46]
More on Skype Pornography - Genius?
Blog The Skype Cheerleading Squad (also known as the Skype Journal) has a lead article today on the "Evil Genius" behind the "Sexy SPIM for Skype" (SPIM = Spam over Instant Messaging), replete with numerous pictures of exactly the type that you wouldn...
[March 7, 2008, 13:03]
Skype Spying Debacle
Blog Comment However, what galls me about this as much as the actual spying is that Skype prances around, squawking to any and all about how much the "love their users", and that Skype is "1005 secure", and their download page has "No Spyware" written boldly...
[October 13, 2008, 8:08]
Skype: Do you get what you pay for?
Talkback Landlines are just as liable to misroute as Skype. I have been using the system for about 9 months and am very pleased with the quality of sound etc. I recently subscribed to SkypeOut and find it easy to use and have had no complaints No drop offs...
[January 27, 2006, 11:04]
Skype 3.8 Beta Release - Ho Hum, Same Old Bugs
Blog Comment While I agree that people often don't come back to announce success, my experience during the time when I was helping others on the Skype User Forums was that by the time users found their way there, they were often so desperate that if their...
[April 23, 2008, 12:46]
SightSpeed, ooVoo and Skype - the Comparison
Blog Skype is once again in last place here, as they have an absolutely baffling array of options and configuration possibilities. Last in this category is Skype, first because the download file is very large (22MB) compared to the others (6Mb and 8 MB...
[December 10, 2007, 6:26]
Has Skype been cracked?
Talkback How are Skype supposed to 'federate' with other IM protocols when all the others are centralised and Skype is P2P?
[July 15, 2006, 23:53]
And Skype call this customer Service part 5.
Blog Comment Hi I publish my supposed Incoming Internet calls ,which Skype charged to my credit card .though it is unable to provide the service offered because the local Governmnet (Germany) did nt allow it! Skype: problem setting up your online numberā€¸
[December 29, 2008, 10:49]
And Skype call this Customer Service part 1.
Blog Comment A way around the problem: look up the senior management of Skype on their website. Then look up their names in the contacts part of Skype itself. AWESOME CUSTOMER SERVICE - WELL DONE SKYPE After receiving an email from Skype informing me that they...
[January 17, 2008, 12:13]
An Analysis of the Skype Peer-to-Peer Internet Telephony Protocol
White Papers Skype is a peer-to-peer VoIP client developed by KaZaa. Skype claims that it can work almost seamlessly across NATs and firewalls and has better voice quality than the MSN and Yahoo IM applications. Skype also supports instant messaging and...
[April 26, 2008, 1:02]
Skype: Do you get what you pay for?
Talkback I am looking forward to the time when I can be called (other than the Skype which is already there) Subscribing was no problem. Took about 2 minutes. Occasionalyy there is a delay/echo not dissimilar to calls via satellites.
[February 22, 2005, 13:53]
Skype sued for patent violation
Talkback In active mode the servents exchange IP addresses and form point to point connections for exactly the same reasons as Skype and other net telephony apps. Peer to peer network protocols use the same concept.
[June 7, 2006, 14:47]
eBay/Skype vs. Joltid - an Insider's View
Blog Here is an interview and opinion from someone who was in the VoiP business at the time that eBay bought Skype. I have no respect for anyone at either Skype or eBay, but even I don't think they are this stupid.
[August 10, 2009, 11:06]
Why All the Noise About Skype?
Blog The internet seems to be inundated suddenly with doomsday articles about how Skype might have to "shut down" by June. In my opinion, it is truly a "Tempest in a Teapot", being exploited by Skype marketing because, as the old saying goes, "There's...
[August 2, 2009, 16:03]
LifeSize Passport: HD videoconferencing for SMEs with added Skype
Blog The demo in LifeSize's office showed off a new feature introduced in Passport — Skype integration. All of the usual video and audio standards are supported, but Skype support (currently audio only, with HD video due 'fairly soon' according to...
[October 12, 2009, 16:27]
What's Going on at Skype?
Talkback What in the world is really going on at Skype? The icing on the cake is that many of the electronic "vouchers" that Skype gave to users to compensate for this didn't work, so when people tried to use them when changing over to the new numbers Skype...
[November 26, 2007, 7:46]
LET US UNITE AND SUE SKYPE (DRAG THEM TO COURT)
Blog Comment skype has saved me hundreds of dollars of international phone charges. Thank you Skype. Are you joking?
[May 22, 2008, 11:33]
Take on Skype for £250
Blog While trawling through what was a largely news-free VoIP for Business conference yesterday, I happened upon the stand of Babble, a VoIP company which is roughly as longstanding as Skype itself. Anyway, their latest offering is a kind of business...
[March 23, 2007, 8:37]
Skype, meet Symantec. Symantec, Skype.
Blog News just in from Skype: the VoIPsters' business customers can get a "special promotion" if they click through to a Skype/Symantec co-branded website via skype.com and download Norton Internet Security and other Symantec Norton products, which are...
[February 7, 2007, 15:47]
LET US UNITE AND SUE SKYPE (DRAG THEM TO COURT)
Blog Comment Come on, Skype has 300 million users. Skype needs to sort out every last one of them but for the most part, I think they are doing a wonderful job. So even if 0.001% of those has a problem, that would be enough to fill any forum with complaints.
[May 22, 2008, 11:33]
