Using Skype Using Skype for Pain Management and Treatment of Chronic Pain. A hands-off therapy works just fine via Skype webcam. Alternative Health Journal. 50 Awesome Ways to Use Skype in the Classroom. It’s an awesome list by/for teachers…

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Download Skype for Windows 4.1.0.136. File size 22 MB. Official release. Release date: June 30, 2009. File name: SkypeSetup.exe. No features added from the 4.1 beta, launched a month ago, but it fixes bugs. Dan York takes aim at Skype’s product stagi…

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Update. Skype for iPhone 1.1.0.91. Adds voicemail, sending SMS, and localization for Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanis…

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Download Skype 3.0 for Windows Phones. Current version: 3.0.0.256 (gold). Release date: June 29, 2009 (beta started in March 2009). New features: Send files Skype-to-Skype, Send texts (SMS). WindowsForDevices summary. tags: skype, windows, windows mob…

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eBay is preparing to spin-out Skype, setting it free to steer its own course. Almost six years ago Skype redefined realtime communications and changed the industry. Lee Dryburgh, the man behind the Emerging Communications Conference, shared some though…

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Send a fax for €0,09 per page (US$0.13) to Singapore, Israel, Aland Islands, Malaysia, Finland, Chile, China, Czech Republic, Hungary, Venezuela, Cyprus, Argentina, and Estonia. PamFax Pro subscribers pay €0,06. (Seems to be part of a larger trend….

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Yugma desktop sharing still hosts multiparty Skype meetings. New CEO tells TMC’s Patrick Bernard this Skype partner is restarting after layoffs and generally winding down the company. From happier times, Skype Journal wrote up: Yugma Skype Edition: Cro…

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meaningfulwork asks "Has your job expired?" in this video. This leads to http://MyJobHasExpired.com. Which leads to http://newjobs.skype.com/ The concept started with Skype alumnus Villu Arak (@villuarak), now CEO of Hill & Knowlton…

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AT&T prohibits tethering unless they sell you permission. From Plan Terms, Prohibited and Permissible Uses:"Furthermore, plans(unless specifically designated for tethering usage) cannot be used for any applications that tether the device (thro…

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"As things are evolving quickly in this space, we will continue to keep our eye on Palm’s Pre and webOS platform, which seems to be getting good traction in its first weekend. But we have nothing to announce at this time" a Skype spokesper…

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The new iPhone 3G S seems designed to prevent video calling applications. The feature is called "Video Recording," not a webcam. The phone sports a great new camera, built for video. But only the one camera, facing away from you, the wron…

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FCC acting chairman Michael Copps just named Blair Levin to coordinate the construction of the FCC’s broadband plan. Thank you, Chairman Copps! Mazel Tov, Mr. Levin! Astoundingly great, ubiquitous, pervasive, cheap, uncensored, clean, accessible, fai…

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Last week Google announced Wave, a pre-alpha browser application project. The experience is like instant messaging but with the extensibility and variety you might find in facebook or OpenSocial applications. Wave can be highly decentralized, like emai…

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Stefan Öberg spoke at Interop 2009 last month, as Jim Courtney reported and Öberg blogged. Two key takeaways. First, Skype plans to formalize and extend its premium (prioritized queue, private resources) online customer support for enterprises an…

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Have you noticed President Obama is never photographed using a mobile anymore? Here are some pics from The Official White House Photostream on flickr by Pete Souza.  Given how many hours the President must spend on a phone, is a Blueto…

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Skype earned market acceptance when Oprah said "I love Skype" in 2008. Skype started to become a household name as Oprah brought guests to her her weekday show. Thursday, a year later, she spent an hour in Skype’s honor. Nothing happened; S…

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You knew it was coming. Now eBay is weaning its markets sites from Skype influence. No longer is Skype among "More eBay Sites." Meanwhile, eBay forbids Skype links/buttons in listings. Skype voice and chat buttons in listings are bei…

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Anything with Susan Crawford has my attention. Tune in now. hashtag: #fpdc Tune In, Agenda, Speakers, Resources, News, FAQ   News release: Michael Copps, Vivian Schiller, Susan Crawford to Keynote Free Press Summit Event to highlight …

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Here’s a 2004 TED talk by Malcolm Gladwell about the importance of variability in product design. He concludes with four points. There’s a disconnect between what people say they want when you ask them (in focus groups, for example) and what the…

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I’m heading out to a technology public policy conference today. Tuning my ear to listen for new issues. Some already on the Skype plate… Mobile Carterfone – freedom to use the device of your choice on a mobile network Mobile Net Neutrality…

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Here’s Justin, Captain Computer, demonstrating Skype for iPhone, at the Southpoint Apple Store in Durham, North Carolina, USA. tags: skype, apple, iphone, demo, video, usa, durhamCall me at +1-510-455-4384, Skype me, follow @skypejournal and @Phil&…

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Nokia and Verizon set up JoinStarfleetAcademy.com. Nokia bought some nice product placement in the first 15 minutes of the film. Skyping doctors on Good Morning America television show. Return of the house call? Wiley publishing Skype’s authors…

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Caveat Lector: this is a rough draft of my thinking on what a Portability EULA /TOS should say/do/include. Please comment. - Phil We’ve discussed Graceful Exit, the ability for people to control their departure from a site or service. Open Arms sta…

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Omniture helps web sites get visitors to act by testing variations on a web page’s design. (Omniture has a pretty great home page.) Skype.com was featured in a workshop that showed tests comparing different home page and returning page layouts and cont…

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Guest post by Andy Yang, who blogs with The Mobile Experience team. I never realized this but Skype is everywhere! Regardless if you are a PC, Mac or Linux user, you can grab a version at your convenience. In the smartphone world, Windows Mobile, i…

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Yahoo! announced an update to Yahoo! Messenger for iPhone. download on iTunes or update from the App Store. Some bug fixes, the landscape QWERTY keyboard, and a new feedback form. There’s still room to grow: no voice or video chat, no making or tak…

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Download the update. Three bugs fixed. Discuss in the Skype for iPhone forum. tags: skype, iphone, hotfix, downloadCall me at +1-510-455-4384, Skype me, follow @skypejournal and @Phil Wolff. Visit our Skype Journal private roundtable, one of the…

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Guest post by Martyn Davies, News Editor at VoIP User,  Principal Consultant at Dialogic, Podcaster at Blue Box: The VoIP Security Podcast, and contributor to the Voice of VOIPSA blog. @martyndavies on twitter. The INQ¹ is the third generation o…

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Pandemics change human behavior for millions of people. Our networks may not be ready for those changes. Just stay home. Wash your hands. Advice from the US CDC for people at risk of the 2009 swine flu. Mexican authorities urge avoiding face-to-face…

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Well, a termination accountant. Not quite as cool as robot warrior accountants. Based in Luxembourg. Putting together all those SkypeIn and SkypeOut charges from termination service providers. Turning it into a stream of wisdom for managing partn…

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PamFax is keeping fax alive with its 2.0 update and release for Windows and Macintosh desktops. Big changes: Two-way functionality: FaxIn numbers in 27 countries: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Fin…

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eBay announced quarterly reports today. Skype did well. Activity continues to go up, revenue goes up, people keep joining at a faster rate. Skype’s Freemium Rate (the blue line below) holds steady, showing people are still willing to pay to talk, fin…

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One half of the US Internet access duopoly reported it continues to drag its heels rolling out higher speed midband connectivity through DSL (U-Verse) and wireless. Here are the slides from today’s investor conference call. 2009q1 AT&T Earnings…

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Download the update. 9 prominent bugs resolved: Extras Manager was not installed to some users Skype incorrectly advised users of new Audio Devices available When adding a new number the phone type was incorrectly labeled Re-adding co…

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Download the update. 9 prominent bugs resolved: Extras Manager was not installed to some users Skype incorrectly advised users of new Audio Devices available When adding a new number the phone type was incorrectly labeled Re-adding co…

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The Internet was designed to be dumb pipes with smarts at the edge. The telecommunications industry hates that. So the industry has been building smarts into the network with services like IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) since 1999. IMS is the phone indu…

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By Jean Mercier, Skype Numerologist and regular contributor to Skype Journal. Wandering over the Internet I found several comments on the value of Skype, for instance here and here. Interesting to see an analyst predicted a revenue of $786 millio…

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Mass encryption. 1.15 billion downloads. Hundreds of millions of people are using Skype’s strong cryptography to talk. Encrypted for the very first time. Thanks to Skype. This is a notable achievement. The last successful mass distribution of crypto…

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Watch famous people using Skype. Skype quickly fades into the background, focus returning to the people and what they say. But how did they do it? Why use Skype when The Oprah Winfrey Show can rent a team to shoot Ashton Kutcher’s side of the segment? …

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2009 Q1 Google Earnings Slides View more presentations from evanwolf. The face of the Great Recession. From Google’s quarterly conference call. 

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$US 1.2 billion for a stake in South Korea’s Gmarket auction site. Skype had better fetch a pretty penny if eBay Inc. is going to keep up this M&A effort. Skype is currently operating in Korea as part of eBay’s Auction company. Will Skype’s separ…

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Ping.fm is a synch service in the social stack, mostly in microblogging and rich presence. Set up on Ping.fm:Enable posting with Skype To enable posting through Skype, request to add the bot "pingdotfm" by searching for the username and add i…

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Upgrade in the App Store. Raul’s announcement. A few bug fixes. Still free. Still in the App Store’s Top Ten Free Apps list at #10. #1 at the moment is the new F-MyLife app, storytelling about how your life is F’d. tags: skype, iphone, hotfix, bugf…

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I love these kinds of industry visualization projects. This is "the web industry" layered atop the Tokyo train system.  Here’s a close-up of the Skype station on the Money line, with Janus Friis standing by. Serving Harajuku. Shari…

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So you’ve read about eBay making an IPO of some Skype stock in early 2010 after "the founders’ offer fell on deaf ears." This means: The stock market values Skype, instead of bankers or M&A experts. Mark Evans. "Skype has a s…

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Someone has to go first. Plantronics’ teaser campaign promises Bluetooth and vague delights. But what I really want is a great Bluetooth headset, a digital signal processor with Skype’s SILK codec inside, and a superwideband highest-fidelity micropho…

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From the WSJ.com Deal Blog [links and emphases mine]: A group including KKR, Warburg Pincus, Providence* and Elevation Partners recently teamed up to back the founders of Skype in an attempt to buy back their free Internet calling service from Eba…

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Coming events: eBay’s Q1 2009 Earnings Call April 22, 2009 2009 Annual Meeting of Stockholders April 29, 2009 Join our Skype Journal Investor Forum to track the news and dissect the financial state…

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New York Times reports Skype founders Zennstrom and Friis are raising about $1 billion to buy back Skype. The article says some analysts think eBay would want at least Skype’s book value: $1.7 billion. So what would a good market value be? Skype are pr…

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Skype crossed the two million download mark in a week. Apple’s sold roughly 20 million iPhones. So 1 in 10 iPhone users downloaded Skype. A happy way to start the quarter. Meanwhile, just for context, Apple is counting up to its one billionth downloa…

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