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Skype has always been challenged with respect to making its growing feature set available on the most popular operating systems: Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. The major ongoing complaint from Skype users has been features on a new release for one OS that don’t appear on the other OS’s clients that may not [...]
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Communications Stories, Service Providers, Skype Partner News, Skype Partner Solutions, Skype Platform, Web 2.0 Tools and Applications
The recent announcement of Skype’s decision to drop its Skype Extras (marketing) program initially caused much anguish across the blogosphere; however, more sober commentary has been appearing in the past few days. To recall the announcement:
Immediately: No new partner programs or upgrades will be placed into the Skype Extras
Going forward: Skype Extras will remain [...]
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Communications News, Developers, Service Providers, Skype News, Skype Partner News, Skype Partner Solutions, Skype Platform
PamFax adds a Japanese partner, lowers rates to 13 destination countries and enhances its infrastructure
Back in April Scendix launched PamFax 2.0 with many new features outlined in a post at that time. To address some reader feedback and summarize PamNews announcements, it’s appropriate to do an update summary of PamFax’s evolution.
First, and most important, is [...]
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Communications News, Service Providers, Skype Partner Solutions
When attempting to “trash” a service via Comments to a post, make sure (i) you have made appropriate attempts to contact a service’s support operations and (ii) give them a chance to respond. A recent attempt to “trash” PamFax in a Comment turned out to be the result of the user attempting to fax [...]
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Service Providers, Skype Partner Solutions, Skype for Personal, Using Skype
PamConsult launches PamFax 2.0 as an obligation-free hosted fax service that supports sending and receiving faxes worldwide with no capital expenses, no usage contract requirements and lower “per page” costs.
The process of sending and receiving faxes involves:
a document source: whether physical or a computer file
physical document scanning
a cover page
transmission of the fax (originally over a [...]
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Pamela, the original Skype Extra that provides a range of utilities to enhance your Skype conversations experience, recently introduced Pamela 4.5 with enhancements which provide new call management functionality.
Pamela’s feature set can be broadly summarized as including:
Conversation management
notification management
voice mail (with optional email forwarding)
video messaging (caller can leave a video message)
call transfer (missing from [...]
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Software developer and publisher PamConsult pioneered third party software development for Skype, having provided the initial German translation of Skype and then launching the first Skype Extra, Pamela in 2005. Two weeks ago PamConsult released Pamela 4.5 for which a review is forthcoming. Their PamFax offering won accolades as the 2007 Skype Partner mashup competition.
But [...]
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Communications Technology, Developers, Embedded Skype, Skype Partner News, Skype Partner Solutions
Amidst all the macro economic turmoil of 2008, there are businesses that have stuck to their knitting and had a quite successful year. Pioneer Skype Partner PamConsult recently reported on their 2008 achievements where they have both built out their product line and provided consulting services that have resulted in a stronger development team and [...]
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Developers, Service Providers, Skype News, Skype Partner Solutions, Skype Platform
The PamConsult team, producers of Pamela and PamFax amongst other products, lives and breathes conversation products due to the breadth of their overall product line. In their PamNews blog post on Skype for Windows 4.0 Beta 2 they state:
…. We have tested it and found it to be already stable enought for day to [...]
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Send faxes via PamFax for €0.14 (a 17% reduction) or, if on a PamFax Professional or PrePaid Pack plan, as low as €0.09.
Since last summer Skype Journal has been reporting on the evolution of PamFax, which allows Skype users to send faxes anywhere worldwide from your laptop in as few as five mouse clicks. Source [...]
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Becomes an Extra Premium; implements major server upgrade.
While email and VoIP technology have changed our communications patterns, it seems that faxing still has its place as a communications mode. The growth of PamFax as a worldwide fax service using Skype’s underlying Skype Extras infrastructure is demonstrable proof.
A key advantage of PamFax is that it works [...]
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PamFax is a Skype Extra that lets you quickly and easily scan and fax a hard copy document or fax a PC-based document to any fax number worldwide.
Not only helpful for the home or small business office but also ideal for road warriors who need to fax documents while traveling from their hotel, an airport [...]
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Skype For Business, Skype Partner Solutions, Skype for Personal
While this blog tends to focus on new developments and the role they can play in our future real time conversations, it sometimes pays to look back to see what has been accomplished. For 2007, these are, from my perspective, top ten accomplishments for the Skype ecosystem:
1. eBay CEO Meg Whitman states at an eBay [...]
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Communications Stories, Developers, Skype Partner Solutions, Skype Platform, Skype Software, Using Skype
… adds scanning and print driver features for sending faxes worldwide.
Back in August PamConsult, publishers of the Pamela universal Skype utility with call recording, conversation archiving, message personalization and audio emoticons, entered the Skype Mashup competition with their beta release of PamFax. At the time PamFax would allow you to select a (Word or PDF) [...]
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Service Providers, Skype For Business, Skype News, Skype Partner Solutions
A post a few days ago, The Dawn of the Mashup World: Part Ia: What is a Mashup, generated a heated discussion on the Skype Mashup Group Chat. Also a few comments. Glad to get some feedback onto Skype Journal; thanks Don and Thomas. (And congratulations to Don Kennedy for having MyToGo selected by ProgrammableWeb.com [...]
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