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Skype launches an Open Beta phase for its Skype for SIP service. Over 10,000 businesses worldwide have lined up to join the program.
Over the past eight months, Skype has been running a closed Skype for SIP beta program. A couple of PBX vendor agreements have been signed while Skype personnel have been having discussions [...]

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Categories Communications News, Skype Channels, Skype For Business, Skype News, Skype Platform, Using Skype

Skype For SIP: Sorting Through the Issues

by Jim Courtney on Tue, Mar 24, 2009 10:03 am

Yesterday’s announcement of the Skype for SIP beta created lots of commentary in the blogosphere; it remained the leading topic on Techmeme for several hours.

Phil Wolff over at Skype Journal, in “Skype For SIP: Big Money, Skypeless, Brand Destroyer”, outlines some of the positioning with respect to Skype for Asterisk, channel schism issues and [...]

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Categories Communications Stories, Skype For Business, Skype Platform

Skype announces launch of a beta version of Skype for SIP, connecting IP-PBX’s to the Skype cloud.
Dan York, while a keen supporter of Skype, has been campaigning for a Skype to SIP interconnect on his Disruptive Telephony blog. In a post last fall, “Skype and SIP – the two sides of the issue raised by [...]

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Categories Skype For Business, Skype News, Skype Platform

Skype for Windows Mobile 3.0 coming…

by Jim Courtney on Mon, Feb 16, 2009 7:02 pm

Skype Blogger Peter Parkes has written about the Gold release of Skype for Windows 2.5. This version provides an improved user experience for Skype calling and chat messages. Click on the image to download.
But Skype is also previewing the first beta of Skype for Windows mobile 3.0, adding file transfer and SMS messaging, at [...]

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Categories Skype News, Skype Software, Skype on Mobile

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 our second in-house built audio codec especially designed for calls over the internet with [...]

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Categories Skype News, Skype Software

Skype for Mac 2.8 Beta Launches

by Jim Courtney on Mon, Jan 5, 2009 5:01 pm

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 Sharing
The most impressive feature is a form of basic screen sharing. Either a segment of your screen or the full screen is converted into a virtual webcam such that the screen [...]

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Categories Skype News, Skype Software, Skype for Personal

Skype 4.0 Beta 3 Available

by Jim Courtney on Thu, Dec 11, 2008 11:12 am

We have just learned that Skype 4.0 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 Beta 3 Download.
Release Notes
Raul Liive’s Skype Blog Post

From the Release Notes (which also lists many bugfixes):

Check out and provide your feedback to [...]

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Categories Skype News, Skype Software

Earlier today we posted information about the availability of Skype for Windows Beta 2 along with a video as well as download and feedback links. This morning Product Manager Mike Bartlett put out a post where he provided more details about the information gathering process that contributed to the redesign:
Different types of users gave us [...]

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Categories Skype News, Skype Software

Skype 4.0 Beta 2 Available Wednesday

by Jim Courtney on Tue, Sep 30, 2008 6:09 pm

Wednesday, October 1, the second beta release of Skype 4.0 will become available for worldwide testing. Via a mix of feedback channels involving legacy users and new users, bug reporting and usability issue forums and direct surveys that resulted in over 45,000 participants’ responses and feedback, Skype learned:

70% were in favor of the new [...]

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Categories Skype Software

This is the second in a series of posts resulting from in interview last Friday with Josh Silverman, Skype’s recently appointed President. In this post we talk about the key issues Josh found necessary to address and establishing a framework for employee motivation and empowerment.
Over the past couple of years I have written many posts [...]

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Categories Communications News, Skype News, Skype Operations

About two weeks ago Skype launched a new type of beta … one that actually will end at some point in the reasonably near future but that is also a major effort to incorporate user feedback while trialing some new concepts. As mentioned in my previous posts about this beta, this is not a replacement [...]

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Categories Skype News, Skype Software, Using Skype