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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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Communications News, Skype Channels, Skype For Business, Skype News, Skype Platform, Using Skype
In a recent post, I provided some examples where Skype is being used by small businesses to build relationships with a worldwide supplier and customer base. In the same post I provided a couple of examples where current economic conditions are helping to stealth Skype into enterprises in the medium to large business category. [...]
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Legion are the stories of small and medium businesses who are using Skype for their worldwide communications operations.
Skype is the cornerstone for keeping Toronto-based b5media’s worldwide staff of bloggers, editors, developers and executives in touch via both informal and formal conversations.
SeeWorthy gets an assist from Skype when communicating with their Taiwanese supplier (via an [...]
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Communications Stories, Service Providers, Skype Channels, Skype For Business, Skype Partner News, Using Skype
OnState Communications provides hosted communications services that allow any size of business to operate a call center or PBX with low cost worldwide access via Skype, Skype Online numbers or the PSTN, including toll-free and DID numbers. Low monthly fees and service charges (covering inbound numbers and outbound PSTN calling) along with zero capital [...]
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Communications News, Communications Technology, Service Providers, Skype Partner News, Using Skype
Over the past three days there has been a continuous stream of presentations that provide insight into a wide range of issues, opportunities and perspectives in the IP-based communications space going forward. While there will be more posts covering individual presentations, it’s worth taking time to mention a few highlights:
Most innovative, outside-the-box, presentation: Ge [...]
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Communications Stories, Conferences and Events, Developers, Service Providers, Skype Platform
Thomas Howe has long been noted for his expertise in developing “Communications Enhanced Business Processes” (“CEBP”). Fundamentally this involves embedding communications facilitation into a legacy business process such as to reduce operating overheads and/or increase employee productivity. From many of the examples I have seen, I would call it eliminating the “intrinsically mundane” from [...]
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Tomorrow morning I’ll be heading out to San Francisco for eComm 2009. Kudos to organizer Lee Dryburgh, who on his own initiative and at his own personal risk, launched this event last year. Late last week Lee was able to announce that registrations had surpassed last year’s attendance.
Attendees should come away with not only [...]
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Last day to register today for Regular Pricing; Late pricing applies for registrations after Feb.17, 2009. Enter “one touch” for a 20% discount.
Two weeks ago eComm 2009 organizer Lee Dryburgh observed that:
With the heavy backdrop of economic doom and gloom everywhere I’d been finding it ever more strange that virtually every company I was dealing [...]
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When Skype’s Unlimited Calling Plans were modified last May, the only “Fair Usage” limitation was 10,000 minutes per month on any of the plans. Recently my attention was drawn to a modified Fair Usage policy. Primarily it would appear that the new Fair Usage policy would apply to businesses using SkypeOut for customer service and [...]
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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’s Director of Operations and Strategy, more about Unyte’s integration into the Lotus SameTime offerings. In that post on Lou’s [...]
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Communications News, Service Providers, Skype Channels, Skype For Business, Skype News, Skype Platform
At CES 2009 COO Scott Durchslag 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 project teams on several continents.Over the past year the InnerPass team has developed a Skype Extra application that introduces [...]
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Service Providers, Skype For Business, Skype Partner Solutions, Skype Platform
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 calls, determine who is calling, what is their general need and getting the call to the right employee. [...]
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IP-Based Communications, Service Providers, Skype For Business, Skype Partner Solutions, Using Skype
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 track record of twenty profitable quarters as a self-financed private company.
Historically Voxeo has provided, at no charge, resources [...]
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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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You want to talk! You want to exchange text messages! You want to see your kids’ expressions while road warrioring in a hotel room or airport waiting room. You want to have a real time conversation; you don’t want to drain your wallet.
You want to converse with friends and family who are dispersed across the [...]
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