I’ve taken some flak recently for my “SkypeMe” middle name. Similarly I’ve had a few comment from different quarters that Skype will never be a real telephone company. With that comment I probably agree. My point is that Skype is leading us somewhere new. From time to time my work involves me in scenarios and [...]
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Douglas Galbi in his comment links to his fascinating paper Sense in Communications: Note Douglas is an economist with the FCC and his paper an in-depth study 190 pages on “Presence”. He states that: “To avoid disaster, the telecommunications industry needs to shift from providing telephony to providing means for making sense of presence.” [...] Skype formally releases 0.97.01 beta today adding free conference calls to its easy to use voice application. See earlier entries in the Skype Journal. February 23, 2004 Skype conference calling allows up to five friends to chat together on one call. The new feature is very easy to use and like regular Skype [...] Skype is breaking new ground by trying to bring PDAs that can connect to the Internet into the VoIP mix, said Zennstrom, who co-authored the software the Kazaa file-sharing network uses. “It was one of the top requests from our users,” he added. But the push to PDAs could have drawbacks. To make VoIP calls, [...] Last night I had a mind bender from a friend who said: “With our solution each Skype conferencee (each on a different continent) could be on a cell phone – and each one could be on a different continent to their PC-now there’s a weird extension!”! It sounds pretty farfetched and I’m still trying to [...] The latest VoIP announcement suggests communities driven by fat broadband connections will join the VoIP telephony game. Streamcast’s announcement below is correctly identified as a VNO or Virtual Network Operator by TechDirt. Short-term the opportunity exists to convert a number of large communities (eBay comes to mind) over to VoIP. In the case of eBay [...] The promised Skype conferencing capability is nearing launch. The preview version is available for additional testing today. To confirm I just connect a conference with Bay Area (2), France and India. Great call quality. I then connected another with China and Bay Area. All off my IBM t-40 laptop. Sound quality was pretty good. There [...] Is it time for a new “always on” study? Andy Abramson picks up on the BBC link below on VoIP and how new programs like Skype are changing the meaning of dialing or making a call. Still the premises behind the article stay remain very much within the boundaries of thinking about phones as phones. [...] Here’s just part of the reason I want my next mobile phone to have bluetooth. Skype — a software firm run by Swedish entrepreneur Niklas Zennström — expects to complete a deal with an unidentified handset maker to incorporate software allowing users to make free calls to other mobile or PC users with the [...] A great article in last weeks (Jan 26th) Fortune written by Dan Roth on Skype. He travels to Estonia and beyond tracking down and talking to the creators of Kazaa and Skype. Can’t help but wish I had been travelling with him. For potential innovators what is interesting is that Skype emerged from over four [...] |
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