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When I made those initial Skype for iPhone calls last weekend, not only did I gain a quick appreciation of the voice quality but I also realized that the forthcoming multi-tasking feature of iPhone OS4 could offer new possibilities. Yes, multi-tasking would facilitate Skype’s Instant Messaging in an “always-on” mode but there could also [...]
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Communications Stories, Mobile Applications, Service Providers, Skype on Mobile
Since the initial announcement of Skype for SIP a year ago today, with the goal of integrating some elements of Skype’s infrastructure into legacy PBX systems that support SIP, Skype has been expanding its partner base as well as incorporating its deployment into the Skype for Business program.
To repeat: the purpose and goals of [...]
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Communications News, Skype News, Skype Partner News, Skype Platform, Using Skype
While the FREETALK Connect all encompassing PBX announced at IT Expo last Wednesday changes the economics of small business communications, it also provides a platform around which third party applications can readily be built and integrated.
Thursday saw the announcement of the FREETALK Connect Alliance, comprising thirteen charter members plus FREETALK that covers applications from [...]
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Communications News, Developers, Skype Hardware, Skype Partner News, Skype Partner Solutions, Web 2.0 Tools and Applications
Pardon my exuberance but I am about to write about a product that I have been beta testing for the past few months. Seven months ago I knew very little about small business PBX’s other than to know they had big $$$ signs associated with their operation.
Back in 1992 my employer of the day [...]
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Communications News, Communications Technology, Mobile Applications, Service Providers, Skype For Business, Skype Hardware, Skype Partner News, Skype Partner Solutions, Skype Platform, Skype on Mobile, Using Skype
In two separate press releases over the past two days, OnState Communications has broadened the scope of its call center offering and made it more readily accessible to businesses without internal IT and communications support.
In the first press release Monday, OnState announced the addition of the Yuuguu screen sharing service that provides call center [...]
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Communications News, Mobile Applications, Service Providers, Skype Partner News, Skype Partner Solutions
Skype launches an Open Beta phase for its Skype for SIP service. Over 10,000 businesses worldwide have lined up to join the program.
Over the past eight months, Skype has been running a closed Skype for SIP beta program. A couple of PBX vendor agreements have been signed while Skype personnel have been having discussions [...]
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Communications News, Skype Channels, Skype For Business, Skype News, Skype Platform, Using Skype
Over the past two weeks we have started to see signs of a transition period for Skype’s developer support activities. Yes, Skype Extras is dead; however the current Skype API’s remain supported. Jonathan Christensen gave Michael Arrington at TechCrunch some hints of forthcoming developer support activity. Skype for Asterisk was launched three weeks ago. [...]
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Communications News, Conversation Providers, Skype Channels, Skype News, Skype Partner News, Skype Platform
This week about 50,000 people have gathered in the northern Nevada desert for the annual Burning Man ritual. You really have to visit their website to get a feel for what it is about and the principles that guide this annual one week experience.
Started in the mid-1980s, Burning Man is designed to generate a [...]
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Communications Stories, Communications Technology, Conferences and Events, Wireless Carriers
This morning Skype and Digium announced the release of Skype for Asterisk, an Asterisk platform channel driver that allows businesses using Asterisk to incorporate Skype into their calling options.
Since first announcing the Skype for Asterisk beta program last fall, over the past eleven months the beta program has gradually expanded its scope to a [...]
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Skype For Business, Skype News, Skype Partner News, Skype Platform, Using Skype
Legion are the stories of small and medium businesses who are using Skype for their worldwide communications operations.
Skype is the cornerstone for keeping Toronto-based b5media’s worldwide staff of bloggers, editors, developers and executives in touch via both informal and formal conversations.
SeeWorthy gets an assist from Skype when communicating with their Taiwanese supplier (via an [...]
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Communications Stories, Service Providers, Skype Channels, Skype For Business, Skype Partner News, Using Skype
OnState Communications provides hosted communications services that allow any size of business to operate a call center or PBX with low cost worldwide access via Skype, Skype Online numbers or the PSTN, including toll-free and DID numbers. Low monthly fees and service charges (covering inbound numbers and outbound PSTN calling) along with zero capital [...]
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Communications News, Communications Technology, Service Providers, Skype Partner News, Using Skype
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
Yesterday’s announcement of the Skype for SIP beta created lots of commentary in the blogosphere; it remained the leading topic on Techmeme for several hours.
Phil Wolff over at Skype Journal, in “Skype For SIP: Big Money, Skypeless, Brand Destroyer”, outlines some of the positioning with respect to Skype for Asterisk, channel schism issues and [...]
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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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Yesterday eBay held an analyst event at its San Jose headquarters location with a keynote by eBay CEO John Donahoe followed by presentations by various eBay executives and Skype President Josh Silverman.
Josh’s presentation broke a lot of new ground for Skype addressing issues such as:
How does Skype generate revenue?
What drives Skype’s cost model?
How will [...]
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