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Skype is in Verizon Company Stores

Verizon‘s go-to-market teams had Skype in place last week.

Employees were oriented. Six months’ ago these same employees had never tried Skype. Now they know a few talking points. Demo Blackberry and Android phones had Skype installed and easy to find Local test accounts with contacts were created for each demo phone Information [...]

Blackberry | ctia | facebook | mobile | Skype | USA | Verizon | VoIP

Video: Skype+Verizon at CTIA: We’re living together

In which John Harrobin and Russ Shaw announce Verizon Wireless (the largest 3G company in the US) and Skype (the largest over-the-top Internet calling company) are moving in after announcing they were dating in February at the Mobile World Congress. Reactions to Skypizon (Veriskype?) are enthusiastic here at the  mobile industry’s association [...]

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Using Skype mobile for Verizon Wireless

Here’s the Say It Visually! whiteboard guide to Skype mobile on Verizon Wireless phones. Positioned as freeing you from your PC (the way, um, mobile phones do). Bonus points for unlimited Skype-to-Skype calling from your phone with your flat rate Verizon data plan. On YouTube.

tags: explanation, communications, verizon, wireless, mobile, [...]

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Listen to Skype+Verizon Press Conference at Noon Pacific

Skype into the event: 877-883-4690 (United States and Canada) or +1 706-758-5386 (international). Conference ID: 64218465

Verizon Wireless And Skype To Unveil Skype mobile At CTIA WIRELESS 2010 In Las Vegas

03/22/2010

WHO: Verizon Wireless, the leading wireless provider in the United States, and Skype, the company with the software that enables [...]

ctia | hardware | VoIP

Ooma still in Fry’s during CTIA

Ooma is on display as an alternative to Skype, MagicJack, VoIP from your US cable company, and your local landline. One flat fee for hardware ($250), use your existing phones, your current phone number, and never pay for landline service again. Just in time for the CTIA Wireless trade show here in Las Vegas. [...]

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Happy 4th Birthday, Twitter!

Congratulations, Twitter! To get the most out of both Skype and Twitter, try Twype. Julian Bond‘s Twype (Windows) pipes your latest tweet to your Skype mood message.

Four things Skype could learn from Twitter:

"Sign in with Twitter" makes having a Twitter identity more valuable to customers and web site owners. "Sign in [...]

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Egyptian government orders Skype mobile blocked

From a Reuters report:

The NTRA had tolerated mobile internet telephony until a drop in international call volumes over recent months pushed them to tell Egypt’s operators to enforce the ban, Badawy said.

"We monitor what is happening on international voice calling and it has had an adverse effect on it," he [...]

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The Skype Song

The Skype Song by Eric Ng, Mhae Rempillo, Carlo Puche.

tags: skype, eric, ng, music, ericngmusic, ukulele, green, pineapple, song

Call me at +1-510-316-9773, Skype me, follow @skypejournal and @Phil Wolff. Visit our Skype Journal private technologist roundtable, one of the longest running public Skype chats.

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16 Things I learned from GDC Wednesday

I went to the Game Developers Conference yesterday.

Team voice chat is now a commodity, a feature you can buy/rent for your game from companies like GameSpy. Players of team games don’t like in-game voice chat. They want to talk with teammates outside of the game before team play (planning, coordination, training) and [...]

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Why did Skype publish SILK’s source code?

Voxeo’s Dan York shows Skype released the source code to its SILK super wideband audio codec to the "CODEC Working Group" of the Internet Engineering Task Force, one the Internet’s standards bodies. SILK is one of the things that make Skype calls sound so rich and vivid. And now SILK is available for everyone. [...]

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Download: Skype for Windows 4.2.0.155 Hotfix

Skype announced a security hotfix today for Skype for Windows 4.2. Detailed release notes (pdf). Download the hotfix now.

Three fixes in this release:

Payments: "It was not possible to make payments with a credit card that had not been previously used for any Skype purchases." Installation. "Skype crashed for some users after installation." Security. [...]

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Download: Skype for Windows 4.2.0.155 Hotfix

Skype announced a security hotfix today for Skype for Windows 4.2. Detailed release notes (pdf). Download the hotfix now.

Three fixes in this release:

Payments: "It was not possible to make payments with a credit card that had not been previously used for any Skype purchases." Installation. "Skype crashed for some users after installation." Security. [...]

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Portability Pledge – A first draft for TheStartupBus

The Startup Bus to SXSW Interactive 2010 is now rolling south by southeast. "12 strangers will board a bus in San Francisco. At 60 miles an hour and over 48 hours, they will conceive, build and launch 3 tech startups in time for a SXSW party in Austin." Can you bootstrap a company [...]

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23 million Skype users log in at the same time

Skype hit a new high watermark for user activity today: 23 million people logged in to the Skype network at the same time.

Skype should reach 26 million concurrent by the end of the year, barring any major improvements in distribution or marketing.

Dialtone is the most useful measure we have [...]

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

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