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Emerging Communications‘ Lee Dryburgh interviewed Richard Whitt, Google‘s Washington telecom and media counsel. Whitt sees three opportunities for Google and the emerging communications community. The stimulus package. It may incent next generation broadband. Unlocking more of the government wireless spectrum. So it can be put to use. Defining a national broadband policy. If [...] "don’t worry if you can’t skype tonite, get some sleep." "Going to sleep now.. Maybe.. I might. But then again, I might be on my iPod waiting for a skype call. :)" American wireless companies are control freaks when it comes to configuring the mobiles they sell. They limit hardware features, choose applications, and otherwise protect their walled gardens. Now they’re set to sell netbooks with wireless data plans. AT&T piloted this with Acer and Radio Shack over the holidays. The software that comes on [...] "can’t sleep. again. cup-a-noodle supper with wife over skype." “YOU disappeared from Skype. I had no one to talk to while I couldn’t sleep. *sniffle*” [presence is Skype's way of letting friends know you can fill in the gaps when they can't sleep] By Jean Mercier, Skype Numerologist and regular Skype Journal contributor Skype revenue growth is flattening. It increased only by 1.2% in $US, and about 3.7% in Euros. In the eBay slides they say “On an fx neutral basis Skype revenue accelerated 5 pts” (fx neutral means “foreign currency neutral basis”). Considering the economic crisis, this [...] 15,996,686 is the highest number of logged in Skype users. Ever. 3314 short of the 16 million mark. It was reported about 10:58AM Pacific time, Monday, 26 January 2009. Skype hit the 15.5 million mark 12 January. Just for those who drink a shot of millimallikas every time Skype reaches another million. Hat tip [...] "Can’t sleep so I may as well find all my friends on Skype instead" "was just oing to go to sleep but asked me to go on skype so here i am back on comp"
Year of the Ox! Thanks to bluebison for the cool sketch. Skype‘s partner in Hong Kong, TOM-Skype, decorated the Skype logo today. Skype’s Taiwan partner, PChome, posted a holiday banner…
and a holiday promotion.
"Sounds like me most days. In fact Saturday was chatting to @someone WY4N until 6:10am on Skype as I couldn’t sleep." Blackberry | Developers | jcourtney | JoshSilverman | lite | mobile | news | partners | product | restructuring | ScottDurschlag | skypeforbusiness | Skypephone | software | Strategy | Technology 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 [...] |
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