I first met iotum CEO Alec Saunders as a competitor in the Canadian PC software market back in 1994. I was Canadian Country Manager for Quarterdeck whose QEMM-386 memory manager had been the tops-selling utility for DOS-based PC’s; Alec was Microsoft’s Canada’s Product Manager for DOS where they were introducing some memory management techniques [...]
Communications Stories, Developers, Mobile Applications
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 [...]
Mobile Applications, Skype News, Skype Partner News, Skype Partner Solutions
The most recent hotfix release of Skype for Windows 4 Beta 3 had one key new feature:
feature: Super Wideband audio codec
The associated Skype Garage post went on to say:
… Starting from this version we’ve included the new Super Wideband Audio codec. This is our second in-house built audio codec especially designed for calls over the [...]
Communications News, Skype Hardware, Skype News, Skype Platform, Skype Software
Josh Silverman joined Skype as President early in the spring of 2008; since then he has been reviewing Skype’s opportunities and building a team of experienced executives who can bring to Skype the products, programs and team building expertise required to operate a business with a run rate of $600MM per year, 20% contribution margins [...]
Skype Channels, Skype News, Skype Operations
This is the third in a series of posts resulting from an interview last Friday with Josh Silverman, Skype’s recently appointed President. In this post we talk about Skype’s value set, getting the business side right while benefiting from the experience and skills of the current employees and the role of product marketing.
In the last [...]
Skype News, Skype Operations
We reported earlier that Mike Bartlett, Skype for Windows Product Manager, would be the guest on Friday’s Squawk Box. With 15 fifteen participants, Mike answered questions ranging from features of the new Skype for Windows 4.0 Beta; plans and objectives for the beta program, the challenges of trying to launch concurrent (Windows, Mac, Linux) versions, [...]
Skype News, Skype Platform, Skype Software, Using Skype
Caution: Skype 4.0 for Wiindows Beta 1 is about improving the User Interface but it is not a replacement for your ongoing Skype conversations on your primary PC and should only be used on a secondary PC to provide user feedback.
While over the years, over 300 million have figured out how to download and install [...]
Skype News, Skype Platform, Skype Software