I missed the announcement on Feb 9 about Damaka. Damaka is ostensible another SkypeKiller, (the last one I checked out was Teleo) according to the Press. Like Teleo it is using the GIPS Voice engine and it claims it is SIP. After installing it, having a “crash” and my testing buddy two reboots we finally [...]
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Will this group have any real impact? The Register reports on a new peering network. Internet calls to landlines could get even cheaper, following yesterday’s launch of an international peering network of VoIP providers. Fourteen companies have signed up to the free-of-charge interconnection service including Callme.se (Sweden), e-fon.ch (Switzerland), Magrathea Telecommunications (Great Britain), Musimi.dk (Denmark), [...] A potential cautionary flag. I’ve watched many announcements fly out on Skype to SMS. I’ve seen Skype Technologies quoted as if it is their program. It’s not as far as I know. A few weeks ago I blogged that Connectotel had launched an SMS to Skype service using an SMS gateway. We tried it out [...] Many Skypers want to record their Skype conversations, turn them into podcasts etc. Some of these solutions work. More often than not the first time you try it you only record the caller and not yourself. Then next step often leads you to hearing yourself talking when recording. Something I find distracting. It is why [...] At the top of everyone’s wishlist is the “Skype Contact List”. There is nothing worse than getting a new PC, being overseas and logging into Skype to realize that all of your buddies are missing. While some future version will almost certainly solve this in a “premium” Skype, for now we need some solutions and [...] A few weeks ago I blogged that Connectotel had launched an SMS to Skype service using an SMS gateway. We tried it out and were impressed. Now they are testing Skype to SMS services. We would add one cautionary note. Connectotel is the gateway between Skype and the GSM gateway which means there is a [...] More on the statistics front. Now James has a go. When we last looked at minutes (Two Million Reasons) on the 14 of February, just 10 days ago the daily run rate was approximately 36m per day. So one new add is that skype is currently growing at 400k minutes per day. Now according to [...] It’s not clear yet what this announcement on Cidav means. There are some similarities to MrBlog’s most recent post on owning your own phone system. So take a standard Linksys router and toss this free code on it, and you have yourself your own SIP proxy server. No more NAT problem (the router has a [...] James Enck used to new strategy today to further his search for businesses that are using Skype. In this post from the EuroTelcoblog he uncovers language schools, pizza services and hotel and restaurant. If you have a business and you are using Skype and there’s a story in it we would like to share it. [...] Skype announced the introduction of PayPal for SkypeOut today. We just enabled PayPal payments in most of the countries where PayPal is available. It has been available to US customers for a couple of days now, things are going good so far, and so it’s now open for others too. Please note that right now [...] A new program by Twilight Utilities tries too hard to break new ground and comes up short. The intension is to use your modem to foward a Skype call to anyone. It provides buddy redirect options, so some get voice mail and other get forwarded through your modem connection to your cell or landline whereever [...] What is Skype’s impact on VoIP traffic? These numbers apparently from TeleGeography. This is a number I’ve tried to run down a few times. Still what’s 4% today could be 10% tomorrow. Let’s just say… it is big enough to count! Estimated to carry 25% of annual VoIP traffic (as counted by TeleGeography), or the [...] Skype for Windows currently has a setting File/Options/Advanced/Auto-Pause WinAmp which stops WinAmp when a new call is received. Unfortunately after the Skype call WinAmp doesn’t resume playing. This beta program MuteForSkype adds music handling capability to Skype for Windows Media Player, WinAmp and Sonique. If you like your music and Skype this may be [...] A wish from a Mac Skyper who would like to see Sailing Clicker connected to Skype. For those like me who had to look it up… Sailing clicker is a remote control utility for using your Mobile phone to instruct your Mac. I installed something similar to this on my Nokia “Bemused” was fun. The [...] I’ve added a new category “WISH LIST” for all those desires we have for Skype enhancements. What do you think would make Skype better? Many ideas have been posted in the SkypeJournal overtime. However, I’m start a new category to add simple items so when they come up they get blogged. I know that a [...] |
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