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Skype deal averts shutdown, allows sale

News The VoIP company's founders will regain some control over the firm and eBay will be able to sell off a majority stake in Skype, after settling an intellectual property dispute [06 Nov 2009]

Sign-ups begin for BT's cloud-phone Ribbit service

News Ribbit Mobile, which will let users make or answer mobile-phone calls on the internet and convert voicemails to text, will open to the public as a beta trial early next year [04 Nov 2009]

Skype and Lenovo agree pre-installation deal

Blog Skype has signed a deal with Lenovo that will see the PC manufacturer pre-install the communications service on all its enterprise laptops and desktop computers. Beginning immediately, all... [19 Oct 2009]

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Internet watchdog challenges 'bogus' VoIP patent

News Civil liberties group the Electronic Frontier Foundation says it has found a prior patent and reference material to invalidate a VoIP patent [15 Oct 2009]

Real Desperation at Skype?

Blog Ok, I might have been wrong. It is certainly starting to look like I was, although I'm not quite ready to give up yet. It looks like the battle between Skype and JoltID might be more than a... [14 Oct 2009]

Skype founders sue eBay over copyright dispute

News Joltid, a company founded by Skype's developers, alleges its P2P software is being infringed upon every time someone downloads and uses the popular VoIP service [17 Sep 2009]

Brutally Frank

Blog You've got to admire someone who is willing to make brutally frank assessments. The Skype Cheerleaders (aka The Skype Journal) have just published an interview with Ben Lilitenthal about the... [15 Sep 2009]

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. It sounds like he has had the same opinion that Xwj has expressed here - someone had... [08 Aug 2009]

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. What the heck is that all about? In my opinion, it is truly a "Tempest in a... [02 Aug 2009]

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Skype aims to avoid shutdown with new tech

News The eBay-owned VoIP firm is trying to develop new P2P technology to replace that which might be taken away in a legal dispute with Skype's founders [31 Jul 2009]

Skype handles around 8pc of int'l voice calls

Blog The telecoms analyst and statistic firm TeleGeography has released its latest data about international long-distance voice calls, and claimed that the VoIP company Skype now handles 8 percent of... [25 Mar 2009]

Skype opens up to business phone systems

News The VoIP company has launched Skype For SIP, which will let businesses hook up their existing IP-based PBX systems to the popular internet-telephony service [23 Mar 2009]

Enum VoIP registry goes live in UK

News The service allows pure internet-based calls, something registry operator Nominet says can help businesses reduce or eliminate call costs to supplier and clients [12 Mar 2009]

Birmingham council hopes to cut costs with VoIP

News Cabinet members at Birmingham City Council are to vote on whether to spend more than £5m renewing the authority's telephone system [10 Mar 2009]

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EU agency backtracks on Skype crime claims

News Eurojust, the EU's judicial co-ordination agency, has significantly revised a statement in which it claimed Skype was being used by organised crime for undetectable communications [27 Feb 2009]

EU to investigate VoIP-tapping techniques

News The European Union's Judicial Co-Operation Unit is looking at how to intercept calls made over services such as Skype, at the urging of Italy's anti-Mafia directorate [20 Feb 2009]

Skype booms amid economic downturn

News The internet telephony provider may be one of the only technology companies thriving as the economy tanks [09 Jan 2009]

Truphone adds Skype, Twitter to iPhone client

News The internet telephony company has turned its client for the iPhone and iPod Touch into an aggregator for Skype, Twitter, Google Talk, MSN Messenger and Yahoo Messenger [06 Jan 2009]

Skype 2.8 for Mac set for release

News Mac users will be the first to see new features such as screen sharing and an integrated Wi-Fi hotspot connector [06 Jan 2009]

Google Enters Audio / Video Chat Market

Blog Google has released an audio/video chat plugin for their GMail service. I don't use GMail, so I'm not going to try this out personally, but from what I can tell, it is of the "browser plugin"... [12 Nov 2008]

VoxOx - New Video/Audio/Text IM/Chat Program

Blog There's a new program coming into the Video/IM market, VoxOx from TelCentris Inc. From the description on their web page, it could be quite interesting, combining Multisystem/Multiprotocol IM,... [04 Nov 2008]

SightSpeed Acquired By Logitech

Blog What an interesting piece of news to wake up to this morning! SightSpeed is to be acquired by Logitech! Not a lot of information available yet, but Peter Csathy, SightSpeed CEO, who has posted... [29 Oct 2008]

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Skype on taking care of customers Video icon

Skype on taking care of customers

Video In an interview with ZDNet.co.uk's Rupert Goodwins, Skype's COO says the company is making focused moves to improve the customer experience and service [03 Oct 2008]

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Skype puts video front and centre

Video ZDNet.co.uk's Rupert Goodwins talks to Skype's COO about what to expect in the next update, as net-based calling moves beyond VoIP [03 Oct 2008]


Study: Chinese Skype service censoring messages

News University of Toronto researchers say TOM-Skype is engaging in 'extensive surveillance', recording and censoring customer text chats [02 Oct 2008]

Skype Roundup

Blog It looks like I'm not the only one who is absolutely sick and tired of Skype, and their poorly functioning, broken software that they show no interest in either fixing or supporting, and the Skype... [30 Sep 2008]

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Skype Refuses to Comply with Ofcom 999 Ruling

Blog Very interesting - but not at all surprising: Windows Watch reports that Skype simply will not comply. Period. Translation and summary: We are Skype. We do as we please, we don't care what... [24 Sep 2008]

In-Flight VoIP

Blog With American Airlines having started offering Aircell's in-flight internet access, and several other airlines due to introducing soon, articles on using VoIP in flight now abound. Practically... [27 Aug 2008]

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SightSpeed - A Closer Look

Blog I spent part of the weekend trying out the new SightSpeed build that I mentioned on Friday. WOW. There is so much more to this - it seemed like the more I looked, the more I found and the better... [23 Jun 2008]

New SightSpeed Build Available

Blog I noticed today that there is a new build for Windows available on the SightSpeed download page. It's still called 6.0, but build 6536. I have downloaded and installed it, and done a bit of... [20 Jun 2008]

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