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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
“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
Blogger colleague Dan York, Director of Conversations at Voxeo, recently ordered and received a Camera Connection kit for his iPad. In most dramatic fashion Dan shows he can break through Apple’s packaging and demonstrates two ways to transfer photos from his Nikon D90.
But wait –that’s not all! Being the geek that he is, he [...]
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Communications Stories, Skype Hardware, Skype on Mobile, Using Skype
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
Skype’s superwideband audio SILK codec is finally available for beta testing on Skype 2.8 for Mac Beta 2 released yesterday. I did a test call with Dan York yesterday where I was on a Windows PC with Skype for Windows 4.0 which supports SILK while Dan was using the new Skype for Mac 2.8 beta [...]
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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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Note: this post has been modified and updated to reflect clarifications of issues from Skype PR.
I woke up this morning to find this message on Phil’s Skype Journal post announcing the download availability of Skype for iPhone but with one caveat:
“THIS APPLICATION IS NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA AND THE USER WARRANTS THAT THEY CANNOT [...]
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Mobile Applications, Service Providers, Skype News, Skype Software, Skype on Mobile
Following a link from Dan York’s update to his post outlining technical details of Skype for SIP, I found a link to this post from IfByPhone’s Irv Shapiro: Why Skype for Asterisk is more important than Skype for SIP.
First, Irv has done perhaps the best articulation yet differentiating Skype for Asterisk from Skype for [...]
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Developers, Service Providers, Skype Partner Solutions, Skype Platform, Skype Software
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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Over the past three years of blogging about IP-based communications, one frequent reference has been to Dan York, who for the past eighteen months has been Director of Emerging Communication Technology in the Office of the CTO at Voxeo, whose story has often been blogged here.
Once he joined Voxeo we noticed that Dan was [...]
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Breaking News: Voxeo CEO Jonathan Taylor is to make a significant announcement at eComm 2009. Click on the eComm logo below to register.
When Dan York had to find a new employer in the fall of 2007, he kept hinting he had found a great employer but could not reveal it until he started his position. [...]
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Communications Stories, Communications Technology, Conferences and Events, Developers, Service Providers
During our conversations with Skype COO Scott Durchslag last week at CES, Scott outlined Skype’s criteria for its software development going forward.
First was the emphasis on “liquid communications” through statements such as “Skype Whenever, Wherever”. Just as today you can pick up any PC or mobile platform and find all the Google Tools (Search, Maps, [...]
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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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With both VoiceCon and Under The Radar events in the Bay Area last week, there were lots of announcements in the Voice 2.0 communications space; I wrote up some GigaOm and Web Worker Daily Posts to cover a few of them:
On Tuesday Voxbone announced the launch of their iNum Service. Basically it provides a means [...]
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Communications News, Mobile Applications, Mobile Devices, Service Providers
Following up on Thursday’s announcement of Skype for Asterisk for which details were posted on Skype Journal late Thursday, Dan York has published a more technical post, “Clarifying how Asterisk could possibly be used as a Skype-to-SIP gateway“, discussing how the Asterisk PBX treats incoming and outgoing calls, effectively independently of how the Asterisk PBX [...]
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Communications News, Communications Technology, Embedded Skype, Skype News, Skype Partner Solutions
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