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Skype hiring a Terminator Accountant

Well, a termination accountant.

Not quite as cool as robot warrior accountants.

Based in Luxembourg.

Putting together all those SkypeIn and SkypeOut charges from termination service providers. Turning it into a stream of wisdom for managing partnerships, allocating resources, finding opportunities, keeping Skype competitive.  

Skype has more than 60 other job [...]

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Skype Offers 25% Discount On Annual Subscriptions

In an effort to boost sales of annual subscriptions, Skype is offering a 25% discount on a 12-month subscription. If you act between now and May 6th, you can cut 1/4th of the cost off an unlimited SkypeOut Plan.

I currently have the US and Canada plan that allows me to do “unlimited calls” [...]

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PamFax updates, adds FaxIn, distances from Skype

PamFax is keeping fax alive with its 2.0 update and release for Windows and Macintosh desktops. Big changes:

Two-way functionality: FaxIn numbers in 27 countries: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK and USA. [...]

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Skype’s 2009q1 showed IPO-worthy growth and profits

CORRECTION: Skype’s year-over-year revenue growth is 38% after correcting for foreign exchange. We reported 28%. 

eBay announced quarterly reports today. Skype did well. Activity continues to go up, revenue goes up, people keep joining at a faster rate.

Skype’s Freemium Rate (the blue line below) holds steady, showing people are still willing to [...]

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AT&T 2009q1 Earnings Call slides

One half of the US Internet access duopoly reported it continues to drag its heels rolling out higher speed midband connectivity through DSL (U-Verse) and wireless. Here are the slides from today’s investor conference call.

2009q1 AT&T Earnings Slides View more presentations from evanwolf.

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Skype for Windows 4.0.0.226 hotfix

Download the update.

9 prominent bugs resolved:

Extras Manager was not installed to some users Skype incorrectly advised users of new Audio Devices available When adding a new number the phone type was incorrectly labeled Re-adding contacts to a existing conversation did not display the contact in the Add contacts drop down menu Video [...]

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NGN IMS Forum continues making dump pipes smarter with billing interop

The Internet was designed to be dumb pipes with smarts at the edge. The telecommunications industry hates that. So the industry has been building smarts into the network with services like IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) since 1999. IMS is the phone industry’s middleware between the transport layer (where data moves) and the application layer (where [...]

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Skype’s market value over time

By Jean Mercier, Skype Numerologist and regular contributor to Skype Journal.

Wandering over the Internet I found several comments on the value of Skype, for instance here and here.

Interesting to see an analyst predicted a revenue of $786 million (for 2010? I guess this was a typo, and they meant 2009) [...]

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Skype’s Crypto Revolution

Mass encryption. 1.15 billion downloads. Hundreds of millions of people are using Skype’s strong cryptography to talk. Encrypted for the very first time. Thanks to Skype. This is a notable achievement.

The last successful mass distribution of cryptography was SSL (secure sockets layer). Browsers alert you are talking securely to a [...]

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Ashton Skypes Oprah, disrupting electronic field TV production

Watch famous people using Skype. Skype quickly fades into the background, focus returning to the people and what they say. But how did they do it? Why use Skype when The Oprah Winfrey Show can rent a team to shoot Ashton Kutcher‘s side of the segment?

Remote participation via Skype in television production [...]

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2009 Q1 Google Earnings Slides

2009 Q1 Google Earnings Slides View more presentations from evanwolf.

The face of the Great Recession. From Google’s quarterly conference call. 

A maturing market? Or a contracting market?

Weakening seems to be all US for now.

The good news is that as the economy tanked, and per-unit ad [...]

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What will eBay do with Skype money? Buy into Korea

$US 1.2 billion for a stake in South Korea’s Gmarket auction site. Skype had better fetch a pretty penny if eBay Inc. is going to keep up this M&A effort.

Skype is currently operating in Korea as part of eBay’s Auction company. Will Skype’s separation from eBay require reorganizing their Korean operations?

The [...]

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Ping.fm takes updates from Skype IM

Ping.fm is a synch service in the social stack, mostly in microblogging and rich presence. Set up on Ping.fm:

Enable posting with Skype

To enable posting through Skype, request to add the bot "pingdotfm" by searching for the username and add it as a contact. When the bot appears on your contacts list, send [...]

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Skype for iPhone 1.0.2 – hotfix

Upgrade in the App Store. Raul’s announcement. A few bug fixes. Still free.

Still in the App Store’s Top Ten Free Apps list at #10. #1 at the moment is the new F-MyLife app, storytelling about how your life is F’d.

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Skype on the Web Trend Tokyo Train Map

I love these kinds of industry visualization projects. This is "the web industry" layered atop the Tokyo train system. 

Here’s a close-up of the Skype station on the Money line, with Janus Friis standing by. Serving Harajuku. Sharing a line with eBay and PayPal this year.

Skype is looking more [...]

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

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