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Two ways to edit Skype Chat messages
It’s always so frustrating, you post a message into a chat session and realize there are either typing errors, missing or duplicated words or, in retrospect, the message says the opposite of what you intended. Or maybe you put a message into the wrong chat session. [...]

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Yesterday’s announcement that Skype will become available as a supported service on Verizon Wireless has to have sent a tsunami through the wireless operator world. To review the offering:

A Skype client will be included on nine models of BlackBerry and Android smartphones in late March; current customers with these devices will be able to download [...]

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Categories Communications News, Embedded Skype, Mobile Devices, Skype News, Skype Partner Solutions, Skype Platform, Skype for Personal, Skype on Mobile, Using Skype, Wireless Carriers

Traveling in a Bipolar Mobile Mode

by Jim Courtney on Wed, Dec 30, 2009 3:12 pm

The past six months, with three trips to Europe, have given me the opportunity not only to experience roaming on European 3G wireless services but also the strategies and alternatives that allow me to minimize roaming charges while traveling with both a BlackBerry and iPhone. A key to the achieving this goal lies in [...]

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Categories Communications Stories, Mobile Devices, Skype on Mobile, Using Skype, Wireless Carriers

Jaanus Kase, pictured right at eBay Developer Conference 2006, was a member of the Talinn-based Skype engineering team at the time, back in 2004, when Skype decided that they needed to create a unique Skype chat user experience. He subsequently become Skype’s most public face through his Skype blogging activity but left Skype in [...]

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Categories Communications Stories, Skype Platform, Skype Software, Using Skype

Canadian iPhone and iPod Touch users will be able to celebrate all 9’s day (today is 09-09-09) by participating in Skype conversations from their iPhone. At 12:01 a.m. the Canadian Apple App store will be making Skype for iPhone available.
Breaking news (12:04 a.m. Sept. 9): I have just successfully downloaded Skype for iPhone from [...]

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Categories Communications News, Mobile Applications, Skype News, Skype on Mobile, Using Skype

Skype Without a Personal Computer

by Jim Courtney on Sat, Apr 4, 2009 7:04 am

I follow several forums about Skype, for instance at LinkedIn and on eCademy. Recently I have noticed a thread on the LinkedIn Skype for Business Group asking about using Skype without a PC. While eventually I intend to have more detailed information in response to such a question in the reference content on this [...]

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Categories Mobile Applications, Skype Hardware, Skype Software, Skype on Mobile, Using Skype

While, being a Canadian where I could not try out Skype for iPhone “legally”, I have followed the coverage and comments across the web. At this point I simply want to provide a summary and links to some of the feedback. In some sense, Hudson Barton’s tweet earlier today, shown above, sums it all up.
First, [...]

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Categories Skype Software, Skype on Mobile, Using Skype

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 Skype for the first time. The goal was to provide a user [...]

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Categories Skype For Business, Skype News, Skype Software, Skype for Personal

Access Your Skype Contacts via Truphone

by Jim Courtney on Mon, Jan 5, 2009 8:01 pm

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 well as auxiliary features such as file sharing (and, as announced tonight, basic screen sharing) [...]

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Categories Communications News, Mobile Applications

With about two months’ experience using a BlackBerry Bold, I was able to pull my experiences together for Web Worker Daily yesterday when this smartphone became available in the U.S. on AT&T: BlackBerry Bold: Upgrading Your Mobile Experience.
Last night at a small local dinner on the topic of social networking in public relations, a few [...]

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Categories Communications Stories, Mobile Devices, Skype on Mobile

OK, so it’s the fourth post this week where I’ve referenced Dan York. But over the two years I have known Dan I have to say he is, in my view, one of the most respected authorities on the technology behind today’s communications revolution. Yet he also understands the value of the user experience.
In celebration [...]

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Categories Communications Stories, Skype News, Using Skype

CalliFlower: iotum rebrands its Free Conference Call service with a focus on a rich user experience not only for conference call moderators but also for participants.
Value-add in the Web 2.0 world comes primarily through the user interface. There’s a plethora of great technology innovation happening out there. But it’s becoming acknowledged that ease of [...]

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Categories Communications News, Service Providers