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This week I am attending the fourth Emerging Communications Conference, or eComm America 2010, with the byline “What’s Next in Telecom, Mobile and Internet Communications”. The first morning was probably one of the best overall sessions for providing an update of where several major players are taking their offerings and how they are contributing [...]
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Communications Stories, Communications Technology, Conferences and Events, Mobile Applications
Over the past six weeks I have attended four local social media and technology events – a PodCamp, a monthly social networking seminar, an annual project management ski day and WordCamp Toronto 2010. At each I was able to bring along a few Skype Everyman headsets to be given away as prizes.
Prior to selecting [...]
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Communications Stories, Skype Bytes, Skype For Business, Skype for Personal, Using Skype, Voice On The Web
This week Skype has released final “Gold” versions of three of their software offerings: Skype for Windows Mobile 3.0; Skype for iPhone 1.1 and Skype for Windows 4.1, their primary client.
Skype for Windows Mobile 3.0 goes Gold: From Peter Parkes:
It includes two cool new features: SMS and file transfer. Sending SMSs using Skype [...]
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Skype For Business, Skype News, Skype Platform, Skype Software, Skype for Personal, Skype on Mobile, Using Skype
When I went to sign up for InnerPass Share and Collaborate a couple of weeks ago I was surprised to find a 50% discount on their Professional Plan. Normally $4.95 per month, a twelve month subscription will only cost $29.95. But this promotion only lasts for another week to May 31, 2009.
Recall that document [...]
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Service Providers, Skype Bytes, Skype For Business, Skype Partner News, Skype Partner Solutions
At this year’s CES 2009 Skype press conference, COO Scott Durchslag provided an overview of Skype Everywhere (or Skype Wherever Whenever). Basically Skype is looking to become installed wherever there is a communications device with embedded intelligence (processor and memory) and an Internet connection capability. Along with the announcement yesterday of the new Skype [...]
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Mobile Applications, Skype Channels, Skype News, Skype on Mobile
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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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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Skype For Business, Skype News, Skype Software, Skype for Personal
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
Over the past two weeks there have been several announcements and activities related to the personal conversation space:
Skype announced its Skype 4.0 beta program trialing a “full desktop” interface.
SightSpeed announced an improved SightSpeed client with many engineering improvements to enhance video and audio quality
SightSpeed for Business announced a 9-party video conferencing capability
iotum launched its rebranded [...]
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Communications Stories, Conversation Providers, Skype Software
Welcome!
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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Seven Ways to use Skype’s File Transfer
Two Ways to Edit Chat Messages
Building a Conference Call
Seven Ways to Use Skype File Transfer
Use the Skype client’s Send File button
In a Skype Chat session either use the Send File button or drag a file into the Chat window
Right click on any file in Windows Explorer and use [...]
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Skype, a business unit of eBay, is the world’s pre-eminent Internet conversation service providing the ability to have free voice, text and/or video conversations worldwide with other Skype users. In addition Skype provides low cost voice connections to virtually any landline phone worldwide as well as mobile phones in North America (U.S. and Canada). It [...]
Voice On The Web by Jim Courtney is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 Canada License.
