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Download Skype app for iPhone 1.0.1 from iTunes

Download from iTunes app store.

Unless you’re from Canada. "THIS APPLICATION IS NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA AND THE USER WARRANTS THAT THEY CANNOT DOWNLOAD THE APPLICATION FROM CANADA."

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Apple, AT&T hobble Skype for iPhone 3 Ways

BBC News’ Rory Cellan-Jones is right when he asks Is Skype on the iPhone a big deal? 

No-VoIP Clause (Wi-Fi tethered). Apple’s deal with AT&T (and presumably Apple’s other carrier partners) forces Apple to force Skype off of mobile networks for voice or video calls. So Skype can only make or take calls when connected [...]

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Must Go DC event: Freedom To Connect

David Isenberg‘s Freedom To Connect is to US public telecom and datacom policy what Lee Dryburgh’s Emerging Communications Conference is to world telecom strategy and technology.

F2C is thought leadership. It’s creative. It’s intimate. It’s diverse. It’s the place to have your assumptions challenged. It’s great hallway. It’s a community that lasts all year. [...]

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+iPhone: Updating the Skype Product Family mindmap

Added Skype for iPhone to the Mobile Software branch of the Skype Products mind map.

UPDATE: 30 March 2009: Added Skype For SIP, Skype for iPhone, Skype co-brand clients, Skype for Asterisk SDK. Changed from eBay extension to eBay toolbar.

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Skype for iPhone – the screenshots

Slide show: (screenshots below)

Splash screen:

Connecting:

Contact list:

Contact profile:

Recent conversations:  

A chat:

Calling:

In a call, speaker on:

In conference call:

Conversation history:

My profile:

Set profile picture:

screenshot credit: [...]

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16 Skype Mobile @ CTIA fantasies

iPhone gets a Skype Lite client. [Hat tip to Om Malik's creative? sources.] Apple buys Skype. Skype is what iChat could have become with funding and management support. Although we’re still waiting on multiparty video. Skype Lite For iPhone OS 3, later this year. The best Skype experiences need push and sync services you’ll [...]

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Wishlist: Solve Skype SPIT (Spam over Internet Telephony)

Guest post by Katherine Robinson in response to SkypeIn number used by con artists, Skype Journal, 24 March 2008.

I just got a Skype online number and I love it. I want to use it for both business and personal. But there is no way to opt out of allowing my number to be [...]

Collaboration | community | design | Skype | skypeforbusiness | wishlist

Community Wishlist: Skype Chat to Email Listserv gateway

@PacificIT community leader Robert Sanzalone and I have been chatting about Skype and its use as social software. Robert penned this blogworthy bit that started about a Skype client on the iPhone. Robert:

As you saw me mention, I have literally been OFF SKYPE waiting for this client to appear from SOMEONE and it [...]

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TV commercial from Skype

 

sfx:

soft sound of fast typing on a computer keyboard

text:

Sarah had a baby girl at 6:30am

sfx:

Skype water drop, into music

father’s voice over animation:

She’s beautiful, so beautiful. We’re calling her [...]

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BCP Management by Role: A Thing I Really Want from Skype for Business

Business Control Panel (BCP) Management by Role.

When a manager leaves the company and takes her Skype account with her, will the company lose access to its control panel? To its funds? To its records? To its control over control panel membership?

BCP "ownership" should belong to a defined role, an alias, perhaps [...]

Business | identity | Skype | skypeforbusiness | wishlist

Multiple Business Control Panels Per Company: A Thing I Really Want from Skype for Business

Multiple Business Control Panels Per Company.

The power in Skype for Business lies in Skype’s Business Control Panel (BCP). The BCP is where Skype gives you fund multiple Skype accounts and manage SkypeIn phone numbers for your organization.

Today, you are allowed only one BCP per company.

It’s time to decentralize authority.

[...]

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Voice VPNs Over Skype: Paying Less for Private Lines

Guest post by David Tang, Global VP at Skype partner VoSKY, and Craig Coward.

Voice Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) have long delivered real benefits to businesses with multiple sites or branch offices. As well as free calls between sites, they enable call break-out to the public network at the point closest to the call [...]

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Tencent’s QQ IM triples Skype’s dialtone

Tencent Holdings (SEHK 700) published their 2008 financials last week. Among the highlights: stats we can compare with Skype. QQ has more than twice as many registered accounts and more than three times Skype’s simultaneous online users. While QQ has many rich instant messaging features, it’s not a voice platform. QQ has grown about ten [...]

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Skype for SIP == Skype for Asterisk DOA?

Guest post by Jason Goecke, Adhearsion

Today Skype announced Skype for SIP (SFS). Put simply, enterprise telephone systems may now interconnect with the Skype network to receive calls from the Skype network and place calls to SkypeOut. All without the need to install any special hardware or software on most modern enterprise phone systems (IP-PBXs [...]

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Skype dial tone: 17 million simultaneous online

Guest post by Jean Mercier, the Skype Numerologist

Again a million milestone of concurrent users online today: 17 million at 17h34 GMT (my clock in the screenshot is GMT+1)!!! This is the fifth time since September 2008! This is quite remarkable, because, as mentioned before in this blog, it is also the first time [...]

7 years and 12 days since Skype Journal launched as a stand-alone blog.

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