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Skype fixes Windows-based client flaw
News Peer-to-peer phone company Skype has updated its Internet telephony software, patching a critical flaw in its client for Microsoft Windows-based systems. Skype's voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) client runs on Windows XP, Mac OS X, Linux and...
[November 16, 2004, 8:15]
Truphone adds Skype, Twitter to iPhone client
News From the week starting 12 January, all Truphone subscribers using one of Apple's handhelds will be able to use the free client for Skype, Twitter, Google Talk, MSN Messenger and Yahoo Messenger two-way communications.
[January 6, 2009, 15:39]
Skype tests mobile Java client
News Skype has released a test version of a client for Java-enabled mobile devices, a move which the company said is a significant step forward for its mobile strategy. With the new client, Skype joins a number of companies, such as Fring and Truphone...
[April 29, 2008, 14:46]
Skype for blackberry must arrive soon!
Blog I’d really welcome a Skype client on other Smart Phones even if it just works on wi-fi networks for now. I’m currently a blackberry user so when will Skype announce a Blackberry client? Skype recently launched on the iPhone.
[April 6, 2009, 10:01]
Skype Presence Reporting Incorrect/Unreliable
Blog Andy Abramson reports in his VoIP Watch blog about trying out the iSkoot client for Skype on the new Android G1. As a matter of fact, sometimes you don't see your buddies on line that you may be chatting with on a Mac or PC using the real Skype...
[October 27, 2008, 8:19]
Open source Skype? Partly.
Blog Skype has confirmed it is developing an open source client for Linux. Allowing people to access Skype from an integrated client will increase the number of prospective users of its service. If all Skype allows is some tweaking of its own client...
[November 3, 2009, 7:55]
Has Skype been cracked?
News Skype's model of being a communications island could be under threat, if reports that its voice and instant messaging client has been successfully reverse engineered are true. Writing on his VoIPWiki blog on Thursday, Paglee claimed he had been...
[July 14, 2006, 17:00]
Operators cautious over Skype-Nokia tie-in
Blog The N97, which is due to launch in June, will be the first of many Nokia handsets to include the internet telephony client, Nokia and Skype announced in mid-February. T-Mobile UK is apparently keen on taking the N97 with the Skype client - a...
[March 2, 2009, 15:25]
Why Can't Skype Get "Presence" Right?
Blog I've had Skype running on some of the Linux test installations for the past couple of weeks. I only have about a half-dozen Skype contacts left (and I'm trying my best to get them to switch to a better program), but I still get a steady stream of...
[July 22, 2008, 9:40]
Skype releases beta for Mac OS X
News Skype has released a beta version of its latest client for Mac OS X users. However, much of the functionality in the new Mac beta involves the sort of features that Skype's Windows users have enjoyed for some time, such as menu-selectable dialling...
[July 26, 2006, 16:45]
Why Can't Skype Get "Presence" Right?
Blog Comment In fact, I strongly suspect that this problem isn't in the Skype client anyway, it is in their vastly overloaded "Super Node" system, so their claims that it is "fixed" by any particular client release are nonsense.
[July 23, 2008, 7:15]
Gartner warns on Skype vulnerability
News Gartner analyst Lawrence Orans said in a research note: "Because the Skype client is a free download, it is widely used and most businesses have no idea how many Skype clients are installed on their systems or how much Skype traffic passes over...
[May 31, 2006, 9:30]
3 opens up paid, international Skype functionality
News For almost two years, Skype and 3 have had a tie-in that allowed 3 customers with Skype-enabled phones to make free Skype-to-Skype calls and send free instant messages using the client. Many customers of the operator 3 will soon be able to use the...
[September 30, 2008, 15:15]
Skype 3.8 Release Available
Blog Comment Skype is still blundering around with their 4.0 Beta, and is still getting lots of negative comments about it being far too invasive, taking over far too much screen space, and so on; meanwhile, they still have no browser-based client of any sort...
[December 29, 2008, 10:26]
Commercial VoIP sees strong growth
News By mid-April, the SKype client had been downloaded 100 million times. This suggests that many people download the client and do not register, and many people who register never or rarely use Skype," said John Bosnell, senior analyst at Point Topic.
[July 7, 2005, 16:50]
Keeping a firm hold on Skype security
News I came to audit the cryptography work that had been done in the Skype client as it existed. Do you see any exploitation of any security flaws in the Skype client? How significant a part of your job is dealing with security vulnerabilities in the...
[January 3, 2007, 8:55]
VoIP wars begin as BT trades shots with Skype
News BT is gunning for rival voice over IP (VoIP) services such as Skype with BT Communicator with Yahoo Messenger, the UK telco's first major Internet telephony product. BT's entry into the VoIP market means it is now going head-to-head with the likes...
[July 16, 2004, 16:55]
New Gizmo5 Utility - GizmoCall
Blog With these Gizmo utilities, you can keep them in a tab on your browser, or even just as a bookmark to jump to when you need them; with Skype's massively bloated client consuming all of your screen space and most of your resources, you can forget...
[December 17, 2008, 13:27]
Google Voice acquires VoIP client Gizmo5
News Gizmo5 is a web-based VoIP client that lets users make phone calls over the internet, similar to programs such as Skype. It is based, however, on an open standard called SIP, rather than Skype's internally developed system.
[November 13, 2009, 8:25]
Intel chipset could turn PCs into phones
News This makes it different from other PC-based IP telephony services, such as Skype, which require users to download a software client. One of the biggest drawbacks of current PC-based internet phone services such as Skype, which allow people to make...
[August 15, 2008, 8:39]
