Truphone Cuts Roaming Costs for International Jet Setters
A Los Angeles Times reporter recently called me for advice about a $400 AT&T bill covering his iPhone activities while “roaming” in Vancouver, Canada, over a weekend. He wanted to know what could be done to reduce such charges while travelling outside his carrier’s home territory. He’s in luck: Truphone says today its planning to […]
Jim Courtney moves on
At VON Canada 2005 I first met Stuart Henshall, the founder of Skype Journal; this Canadian VON event attracted bloggers from across North America. It was the only North American opportunity to hear Skype founder Nicklas Zennstrom personally while he w…
Skype for Windows 4.0 Gold: Blog Coverage
Since its launch Tuesday, Skype for Windows 4.0 Gold has received some interesting coverage:David Pogue, New York Times: in addition to his column discussed here yesterday, he has produced an amusing video: Skype 4.0: The Cheapskate where a video starr…
David Pogue, New York Times: Video Chats Overcome Clunkiness
Columnist David Pogue in a New York Times article reviewing Skype 4.0 starts by going back to the AT&T video phone demonstrated at the 1964 New York World’s Fair and user experience from then. Not a lot of calls due to technical and psychological i…
Set Up and Make CalliFlower Conference Calls from Your iPhone
Over the past eighteen months iotum’s CalliFlower has evolved into a complete audio conference call service. While they still offer a basic free service, in January they launched a premium service that provides document sharing, local calling numbers i…
SILK: Skype’s New Audio Codec Sets New Performance Standards for Voice Conversations
The most recent hotfix release of Skype for Windows 4 Beta 3 had one key new feature: feature: Super Wideband audio codecThe associated Skype Garage post went on to say:… Starting from this version we’ve included the new Super Wideband Audio codec. …
Skype for Windows 4.0 Goes Gold; Improved UI, Audio and Video Performance
Over the past eight months 1.2 million Skype users have participated in the Skype for Windows 4.0 beta program (stage 1, stage 2, stage 3). During this beta period, not only current user feedback was sought but also feedback from new users installing S…
A Partnership Is Worth Zilch When….
… your partner fails to provide an obvious path to download and install your software.In early July last year I wrote about the launch of Dell Video Chat, based on a newly announced agreement between Dell and SightSpeed to use SightSpeed’s video serv…
A Partnership Is Worth Zilch When….
… your partner fails to provide an obvious path to download and install your software.In early July last year I wrote about the launch of Dell Video Chat, based on a newly announced agreement between Dell and SightSpeed to use SightSpeed’s video serv…
A Partnership Is Worth Zilch When….
… your partner fails to provide an obvious path to download and install your software.In early July last year I wrote about the launch of Dell Video Chat, based on a newly announced agreement between Dell and SightSpeed to use SightSpeed’s video serv…
A Partnership Is Worth Zilch When….
… your partner fails to provide an obvious path to download and install your software.In early July last year I wrote about the launch of Dell Video Chat, based on a newly announced agreement between Dell and SightSpeed to use SightSpeed’s video serv…
A Partnership Is Worth Zilch When….
… your partner fails to provide an obvious path to download and install your software.In early July last year I wrote about the launch of Dell Video Chat, based on a newly announced agreement between Dell and SightSpeed to use SightSpeed’s video serv…
A Partnership Is Worth Zilch When….
… your partner fails to provide an obvious path to download and install your software.In early July last year I wrote about the launch of Dell Video Chat, based on a newly announced agreement between Dell and SightSpeed to use SightSpeed’s video serv…
A Partnership Is Worth Zilch When….
… your partner fails to provide an obvious path to download and install your software.In early July last year I wrote about the launch of Dell Video Chat, based on a newly announced agreement between Dell and SightSpeed to use SightSpeed’s video serv…
A Partnership Is Worth Zilch When….
… your partner fails to provide an obvious path to download and install your software.In early July last year I wrote about the launch of Dell Video Chat, based on a newly announced agreement between Dell and SightSpeed to use SightSpeed’s video serv…
A Partnership Is Worth Zilch When….
… your partner fails to provide an obvious path to download and install your software.In early July last year I wrote about the launch of Dell Video Chat, based on a newly announced agreement between Dell and SightSpeed to use SightSpeed’s video serv…
A Partnership Is Worth Zilch When….
… your partner fails to provide an obvious path to download and install your software.In early July last year I wrote about the launch of Dell Video Chat, based on a newly announced agreement between Dell and SightSpeed to use SightSpeed’s video serv…
A Partnership Is Worth Zilch When….
… your partner fails to provide an obvious path to download and install your software.In early July last year I wrote about the launch of Dell Video Chat, based on a newly announced agreement between Dell and SightSpeed to use SightSpeed’s video serv…
A Partnership Is Worth Zilch When….
… your partner fails to provide an obvious path to download and install your software.In early July last year I wrote about the launch of Dell Video Chat, based on a newly announced agreement between Dell and SightSpeed to use SightSpeed’s video serv…
The Skype Restructuring: Global Products, Regional Markets
Josh Silverman joined Skype as President early in the spring of 2008; since then he has been reviewing Skype’s opportunities and building a team of experienced executives who can bring to Skype the products, programs and team building expertise require…
Skype Everywhere: Coming Soon to IBM Lotus Live Engage
A year ago August IBM’s Lotus Sametime Division announced the acquisition of Skype Partner Webdialogs to obtain their widely respected Unyte Desktop Sharing collaboration technology. About four months later we learned, from Lou Guercia, Lotus SameTime’…
Skype Everywhere: Inner Pass Skype-Enables Business Document Management
At CES 2009 COO Scott Durschlag spoke about “liquid communications” and “Skype Wherever, Whenever”. InnerPass has developed a business-class hosted document management system; they have been marketing it via private label to over 3000 businesses or pro…
What’s Wrong With This Picture, Eh?
The U.S. cell phone industry is asking its customers to only text during the inauguration ceremonies tomorrow. From the New York Times:The largest cellphone carriers, fearful that a communicative citizenry will overwhelm their networks, have taken the …
Skype COO Outlines Skype’s Software Guidelines
During our conversations with Skype COO Scott Durschlag last week at CES, Scott outlined Skype’ criteria for its software development going forward.First was the emphasis on “liquid communications” through statements such as “Skype Whenever, Wherever”….
Skype at CES 2009, Part II: An Overview and Observations
There’s a “new sheriff in town” when it come to running Skype; CES 2009 was a “coming out” event for the new executive team.CES 2009 provided an opportunity to catch up personally with many of the vendors we have covered in Skype Journal including Skyp…
Skype at CES 2009: Initial Steps Towards Liquid Communication
At a Skype’s CES 2009 press conference today recently appointed COO Scott Durschlag provided the first hints of a vision statement for Skype under its new executive team along with some initial software offerings that hint at the direction Skype is tak…
Skype for Windows 4.0 Beta 3 Hotfix Introduces New Audio Codec
This morning Skype released a hotfix upgrade for Skype for Windows 4.0 beta 3 bringing in several new features but most significant is the introduction of a new "super wideband Audio codec; from the Skype Garage blog post linked above: This is …
Skype Has NOT Thrown Indepedent Developers Under a Bus
Screen sharing is a feature, not a collaboration service. Skype has left the door open for all its developer partners to continue to build their businesses with Skype embedded into their offering, especially when it comes to fully featured collaboratio…
Skype for Mac 2.8 Beta Launches
At MacWorld’s Showstoppers event this evening Skype announced Skype for Mac 2.8 beta, with two major new features as well as several minor ones.Screen SharingThe most impressive feature is a form of basic screen sharing. Either a segment of your screen…
Access Your Skype Contacts via Truphone
Over the past few years we have seen the evolution of several conversation communities, some simply employing instant messaging; others employing both instant messaging and voice. Skype is the primary example with its support of IM, voice and video as …
OnState Virtual PBX: Taking On and Managing All Callers
OnState’s Virtual PBX incorporates Skype as a contributor to lower cost, yet more productive, small business communications management activities.A mainstay for communications in any office with at least a few employees is the need to accept incoming c…
SlingPlayer Mobile for BlackBerry: Pragmatic Cable, Internet and Wireless Convergence onto a Smartphone
In my early 50’s youth when I was delivering afternoon newspapers in somewhat remote Saskatoon, Saskatchewan I always tried to be at one customer’s home at 4:30. Why? At that time the only television viewable came via high rooftop antennae from transmi…
PamConsult Has a “Fantastic Year”
Amidst all the macro economic turmoil of 2008, there are businesses that have stuck to their knitting and had a quite successful year. Pioneer Skype Partner PamConsult recently reported on their 2008 achievements where they have both built out their pr…
RIM Demonstrates Ongoing Support for Older BlackBerries
While ZDNet has named BlackBerry Bold the most influential biztech product of 2008, RIM has not been neglecting the millions of owners of older 8xx0 series BlackBerries. Earlier this week their BlackBerry Connection Newsletter announced that version 4….
The Skype - Oprah Feedback Loop - It Works in Strange Ways
This afternoon I came across this article by reporter Chris O’Brien in today’s San Jose Mercury News: “Video Chat has entered the mainstream”. It appears that the worlds of Oprah viewers and Silicon Valley geeks and reporters have more than six degrees…
Bold Twittering: When is a SmartPhone Truly a Mobile Microcomputer?
If I ever had any doubt about the value of Twitter as a commercial social networking tool, it evaporated this weekend as a result of following some Tweets on the subject of smartphones that appeared this weekend. They certainly provide an independent p…
Pat Phelan Finds How Popular Skype Is, Really!
Today Ireland’s favorite communications entrepreneur, Pat Phelan, put up a post: “How Popular is Skype, really?” Shows the potential for both Skype and its (prospective) partners, should the new executive team be able to execute on a restructured Skype…
How Skype Will Grow in 2009
Guest Post by Hudson Barton, The Borderless Communicator2008 is turning out to be a great year for Skype growth (real users), nearly matching the record year of 2006. In my view, the patterns of Skype growth are affected by:The popularity (name recogni…
Truphone Breaks the Carrier Barrier
Truphone’s announcements last week overcame a significant carrier resistance barrier to using VoIP-enabled services to reduce international calling costs. The key secret here was that it required the combination of Truphone’s iPhone and iPod Touch appl…
Race to Provide Low Cost International Calling on Mobile Heats Up
Yesterday I wrote a post for GigaOm, Skype: Coming to a Cell Phone Near You, discussing how the announcement of two new beta versions of Skype on mobile devices gave a hint of Skype’s future mobile strategy.At the same time Truphone announced a new ver…
Skype 4.0 for Windows Beta 3 Available
We have just learned that Skype 4.0 for Windows Beta 3 is now available. Once we have had a chance to install and review it, there will be more to say. But for now:Skype 4.0 for Windows Beta 3 Download. Release Notes Raul Liive’s Skype Blog PostFrom t…
Skype: Coming to a Cell Phone Near You
Yesterday, Skype announced the availability of two new beta clients for mobile phones: Skype for Windows Mobile 2.5 beta and a renamed Skype for Mobile, now called Skype Lite. While the new beta version of Skype for Windows Mobile basically provides improved call quality and stability for those with Windows Mobile smartphones, Skype Lite opens […]
Skype’s Restructuring Makes Major Moves: New CxO Announcements
Over the past few months, announcements have been few and far between with respect to Skype product news. But at the same time I have often discussed Skype’s restructuring moves; the first official disclosure of a restructuring was disclosed in our Sep…
Voxeo Grows Again: Voice Objects Acquisition Adds a Third Layer of Developer Resources
Over the past ten years Orlando, FL-based Voxeo Corporation has grown to become one of the largest hosts of enterprise Interactive Voice Response (”IVR”) applications, building not only tools for developing and hosting these applications but also a tra…
Fonolo Takes Its “Deep Dialing” Into Full Public Beta
When calling into an enterprise of any reasonable size, we all love to navigate our way through those pesky (and repetitive) enterprise auto-attendant services or phone trees that go through menu after menu to connect you directly to an appropriate des…
Motley Fool Discusses The 2012 Annual Report of SkypePal Inc.
The Motley Fool has become a popular and widely respected investment community site since the origins of the commercial Internet in the mid-90’s with the objective of helping people take control of their financial lives. It has evolved into a multi-me…
Truphone for iPod Touch: Accessing Skype Contacts and Social Media
Over the past year one of the leading IP-based voice service offerings for low cost international calling from wireless smartphones has been Truphone whose service primarily runs over WiFi access points. Their Truphone Anywhere service, launched last s…
eComm 2009 Registration Opens: Take Advantage of the Skype Journal Discount
Two weeks ago I wrote about eComm 2009 and the announcement of Skype’s participation as a Platinum sponsor. Yesterday registration for eComm 2009 opened with a Super Early Bird Special pricing of $1,190.00 available to those who register prior to Dece…
Getting Closer to the True Numbers on Skype via Mobile
Yesterday UK web publication TelecomTV put out a post “Skype claims mobiles are involved in a quarter of its calls”. But a “correction” comment by the author, Tony Chan, disclaims his basic premise:CORRECTION: As the original author of this story for C…
Alec Saunders Twitters: “Ditching all IM Systems except Skype”!
When I started using Skype more intensively about three years ago, I had been a heavy user of Microsoft’s MSN Messenger for several years. But about 18 months ago, I stopped logging into MSN Messenger; none of my contacts were there - or, if they were,…
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