This morning, at the CEA Line Show in New York, Skype is taking the first step in the evolution of its revamped developer platform with the beta release of SkypeKit, “empowering consumer electronic and desktop software innovators to embed Skype into their products”.
In summary:
Most importantly, SkypeKit allows developers to embed all the functionality of [...]
Communications News, Developers, Embedded Skype, Skype Hardware, Skype News, Skype Partner News, Skype Platform, Using Skype, Video calling
Earlier this week Skype released Skype 4.1 Beta bringing back a few features lost in Skype 4.0 and introducing screen sharing (previously available with Skype for Mac 2.8 beta). From Raul Liive’s introduction post:
Skype 4.1 Beta for Windows brings to you long hours of work from our audio and video team. They have introduced [...]
Skype News, Skype Software, Using Skype
This evening I had a conflict: I needed to meet up with a neighbor while walking my dog but wanted to watch a key hockey game via my NHL Center Ice cable subscription. Why? Another neighbor’s son is a leading player on a team that is surprisingly making a run for a playoff position. [...]
Communications Stories, Mobile Applications
How do you drive awareness for Skype? Have the two daytime talk shows with the largest audiences connect via a Skype (High Quality) video call.
Yesterday afternoon, during the Ellen de Generes show, Ellen was surprised to see Oprah appear, unannounced via a Skype video call, behind her on the large screen monitors used to support [...]
Skype News, Using Skype
Since its launch Tuesday, Skype for Windows 4.0 Gold has received some interesting coverage:
David Pogue, New York Times: in addition to his column discussed here yesterday, he has produced an amusing video: Skype 4.0: The Cheapskate where a video starring Mr. Cheapskate shows a Skype video session with his daughter, Kim Cheapskate, obviously a student. [...]
Communications Stories, Skype News, Skype Software, Skype for Personal
Columnist David Pogue in a New York Time article reviewing Skype 4.0 starts with the AT&T video phone demonstrated at the 1964 New York World’s Fair and user experience from then. Not a lot of calls due to technical and psychological issues. He talks about why Skype has been so widely accepted (did he remind [...]
Communications Stories, Skype News, Skype Software, Skype for Personal, Using Skype
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 [...]
Skype For Business, Skype News, Skype Software, Skype for Personal
Earlier this week the GMail weblog announced GMail voice and video chat; basically they are designed to add voice and video modes to an email thread; from the GMail blog post:
… today we’re launching voice and video chat — right inside Gmail. We’ve tried to make this an easy-to-use, seamless experience, with high-quality audio and [...]
Communications News, Conversation Providers
Global IP Solutions today announced a white paper on Desktop Video Conferencing, providing a background for their video infrastructure technology that has the potential to make video calling and video conferencing available to a much broader user base beyond Skype’s (even though it is quite large) and SightSpeed.
Many of you will recall that Skype’s original [...]
Communications News, Communications Technology, Conversation Providers
Videophones were first demonstrated to the public at the New York World’s Fair in 1964 and Montreal’s Expo ‘67. But, until Packet 8 introduced a video phone a few years ago, they were not readily available.
Once Skype introduced video, you knew someone would have to come up with a Skype-enabled video phone. Coolest Gadgets reports [...]
Communications News, Skype Hardware
About two weeks ago Skype launched a new type of beta … one that actually will end at some point in the reasonably near future but that is also a major effort to incorporate user feedback while trialing some new concepts. As mentioned in my previous posts about this beta, this is not a replacement [...]
Skype News, Skype Software, Using Skype
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