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Over the past couple of days I have had the opportunity to complete calls using Skype for iPhone 2.0 over 3G to contacts in the U.K., the U.S. and Spain, not only while staying in one location but also at 100 km/hr crossing through several mobile phone cells along Canada’s busiest freeway that recently [...]
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Communications Stories, Mobile Applications, Skype Bytes, Skype on Mobile, Using Skype
There was lots of lament and thrashing when Skype announced the forthcoming end to the Skype Extras program for distributing Skype software partners offerings. By the end of August, 2010 the Skype Extras item in the Skype for Windows client will go away. But does that mean the end for developing products and services [...]
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Developers, Service Providers, Skype News, Skype Partner News, Skype Partner Solutions, Skype Platform, Skype for Personal
On Friday the Skype Developer Blog posted a blog announcing the end of the Skype Extras program in what amounts to two stages:
Immediately: No new partner programs or upgrades will be placed into the Skype Extras
Going forward: Skype Extras will remain available via the Skype for Windows client until their certification expires (which [...]
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Developers, Skype News, Skype Partner News, Skype Partner Solutions, Skype Platform
A Skype Developer blog post today, The future of Skype Extras, has created confusion and havoc amongst the blogging community that follows Skype (see, for example, the Zemanta links below). Having followed the Skype Developer Program over the past three years (and currently being a commercial user of some of the developers’ offerings) let [...]
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Skype News, Skype Partner News, Skype Partner Solutions, Skype Platform
Stefan Öberg, Vice-President, Skype for Business, provided his overview on “the future of modern business communications” at Interop last week. He started off by outlining his perspective on how consumer adoption of Skype is building business adoption from consumer experience; he feels this is driven by:
Economy: 43% percent of knowledge workers in US enterprises [...]
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Conferences and Events, Embedded Skype, Skype For Business, Skype News, Skype Partner News, Skype Partner Solutions, Skype Platform
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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Sometimes communications services come along that demonstrate technical feasibility but then you have to ask “Why?”, “Who would use it?”, “What are the real user benefits?” Such a service is the voice-to-text SMS-based service announced by Skype and partner SpinVox last week.
Basically a Skype user can set up their account such that Skype voicemails [...]
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Mobile Applications, Skype News, Skype Partner News, Skype Partner Solutions
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
Pamela, the pioneering third party Skype conversation management utility, has evolved since its launch in 2004 into the premier utility for assisting your Skype activities with features such as call recording, conversation archiving, personalization, call scheduling and enhanced voice mail management. Its Rich Mood Editor, Emoticons, PamCasting and Blogging Support are amongst Pamela’s additional features.
Sphere: [...]
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Skype For Business, Skype Partner Solutions, Skype for Personal
Skype has become a vital tool for not only keeping their reporters in touch but also for delivering high voice quality reports and more effective technical support.
Broadcasting in nine languages, via short wave radio (primarily), Internet and satellite feeds, to several southeast Asian countries where open sources of news and information are lacking, Radio [...]
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Pioneer Skype Extra application Pamela has this week released version 4.0 with a new user interface:
and several new features:
More screenshots here. Download here. Pamela Basic is always free; other versions of Pamela have a 30-day trial. We’ll be doing a review, including a user case study, within the next ten days but in the meantime [...]
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This is the fourth post in a series summarizing the current state of Skype’s ecosystem and providing a perspective on the assets in place for a new CEO to run with.
Getting to the Present
Alec Saunders’ Voice 2.0 Manifesto talks about Applications as the value creators in a Voice 2.0 world. Once again Skype differentiates [...]
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Skype For Business, Skype Partner Solutions, To Be Categorized
The past week has provided an opportunity for all the nay-sayers and pessimists to say “I told you so”. But many bloggers have followed on Jeff Pulver’s lead with I Come to Praise Skype, not to Bury Them. Alec Saunders: Stop Wringing Your Hands. Skype is a Huge Success:
No, Skype isn’t a failure. By [...]
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Yesterday (Sept. 19) was the 25th anniversary of the birth infamous smiley via a bulletin board message on a primitive pre-ARPA Carnegie Mellon Universtiy network. Smiley’s inventor Scott Fahlman tells the story of its emergence into the public domain..
Given the nature of the community, a good many of the posts were humorous (or attempted humor). [...]
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