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When I interviewed Skype CEO Josh Silverman at CES 2010 in January, I had asked about the timing for a Skype IPO. Josh’s response:
“We’ll see. We don’t have a timeline for it. Our focus is to build a really great company. When we’re ready and the markets are ready, we’ll consider an IPO. At [...]
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Communications News, Service Providers, Skype News, Skype Operations, To Be Categorized
When I first saw the antenna band completely surrounding the iPhone 4 during Steve Jobs’ initial presentation, I recalled a comment made to me by RIM co-CEO Mike Lazaradis after a RIM Annual General meeting a few years ago. And I should also mention that I personally have a history of dealing with rf [...]
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Communications News, Communications Technology, Mobile Devices
Three weeks after announcing SkypeKit for Linux, Skype has lived up to its commitment to provide support for Windows and Mac OS X.
What does this mean for future deployment of Skype access?
Basically the ability to embed Skype within a third party Windows and/or Mac OS X application without the need for the Skype client [...]
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Communications News, Skype Bytes, Skype News, Skype Partner Solutions, Skype Platform, To Be Categorized
“Fring is not a communications platform, but only a toy or at best a testbed for shiny objects.”
Comment by Hudson Barton on Andy Abramson’s post: Fring Fumbles on Cross Platform Video Chat
In observing the evolution of Skype and third party access to it over the past few years I have often wondered how far Skype [...]
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Communications News, Mobile Applications, Skype News, Skype Platform, Skype on Mobile
This morning, at the CEA Line Show in New York, Skype is taking the first step in the evolution of its revamped developer platform with the beta release of SkypeKit, “empowering consumer electronic and desktop software innovators to embed Skype into their products”.
In summary:
Most importantly, SkypeKit allows developers to embed all the functionality of [...]
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Communications News, Developers, Embedded Skype, Skype Hardware, Skype News, Skype Partner News, Skype Platform, Using Skype, Video calling
For the past few years I have been aware of another company, aside from Skype, that develops communications software in the form of SIP-based softphones: CounterPath, working out of Vancouver, B.C.
I have always been a bit frustrated by SIP-based connectivity – my one learning across several attempts over the years to configure SIP-based softphones [...]
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Communications News, Communications Technology, Mobile Applications, Web 2.0 Tools and Applications
Normally when Skype has made a major release, Skype PR will provide a heads-up to bloggers and other technology media a day or two ahead of time under an embargo until a defined time. This allows Skype to better manage the message to the market in terms of at least answering initial questions that [...]
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Communications News, Mobile Applications, Skype News, Skype on Mobile, Using Skype, Wireless Carriers
Since its version 1.0 launch in late 2007, PamFax has provided an easy-to-use web-based fax service, that allows you to send faxes worldwide without any hardware requirements. Initially a fax sending service, PamFax 2.0 introduced features such as a Windows print driver, support for Mac and Linux and inbound faxing to a local number [...]
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Communications News, Service Providers, Skype Partner News, Skype Partner Solutions, Social Media, Web 2.0 Tools and Applications
Ok so I’m the last to write about Google’s announcement this morning on its acquisition of Global IP Solutions, a major provider of IP-based communications infrastructure with not only its voice and video codecs but also voice and video engines that mean simply “supply me with an Internet connection, a microphone and a set [...]
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Communications News, Communications Technology, Mobile Applications, Video calling, Web 2.0 Tools and Applications
This morning Skype issued a press release, Call Your Friends and Family Anywhere in the World For Less, announcing new consumer calling plans (subscriptions) that cover over 170 countries and introduce more granularity into the choices such as calling time, termination country(ies) and plan period (1-, 3- and 12-month).
While still awaiting to see the [...]
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Communications News, Mobile Applications, Skype News, Skype for Personal, Using Skype
Over the past two years I have been occasionally reporting on Tungle, the meeting accelerator that facilitates scheduling meetings and conference calls. Tungle’s goals as a service are:
bring down barriers, such as different calendar programs, between companies and work teams
share availability (Busy/Free status only)
respect privacy and user control
In summary Tungle wants to be “the [...]
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Communications News, Mobile Applications, Service Providers, Social Media, Web 2.0 Tools and Applications
Ok, so the iPad does not have a camera of any type. But is its form factor not a “natural” format for video calling? When Global IP Solutions put out a press release yesterday I was a bit skeptical about who would take up on their “one way Video Conferencing/Chat capabilities for iPad developers, [...]
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Communications News, Communications Technology, Developers, Mobile Applications, Video calling
In the past I have written about how WiFi is becoming the de facto unregulated stealth wireless carrier; I have also mentioned Boingo as a service that provides significant convenience when on the road, with its 125,000 access points at airports, hotels, restaurants, coffee shops and other public locations worldwide.
Over the past year Skype [...]
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Communications News, Mobile Devices, Service Providers, Skype For Business, Using Skype
A month ago at Mobile World Congress, Skype and Verizon stole the spotlight by announcing Verizon’s forthcoming Skype mobile service. This afternoon at CTIA in Las Vegas, Verizon and Skype announced that the service will launch in two days on Thursday, March 25 (think Christmas in March).
If there was one overriding theme that came [...]
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Communications News, Mobile Devices, Skype Channels, Skype News, Skype Partner News, Skype Platform, Skype on Mobile, Using Skype, Wireless Carriers
Since the initial announcement of Skype for SIP a year ago today, with the goal of integrating some elements of Skype’s infrastructure into legacy PBX systems that support SIP, Skype has been expanding its partner base as well as incorporating its deployment into the Skype for Business program.
To repeat: the purpose and goals of [...]
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Communications News, Skype News, Skype Partner News, Skype Platform, Using Skype
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