April « 2010 « Skype Journal

Not to worry. Tinkering, and YVR bound

Phil Wolff 29 April 2010 6:49 am

Migrating to WordPress this week and playing with a zillion choices. Sure to get a few things wrong as I tinker but all is well. Suggestions for your favorite plug-ins?

I’m heading up to Washington state for a family week, and at least one or two days in/around Vancouver, BC, to work on a writing [...]

silk | Skype | statistics | Technology

People talk 45% longer with Skype high audio quality

Phil Wolff 20 April 2010 12:28 am

Here’s a slide from Skype‘s Jonathan Rosenberg eComm presentation. Skype tested a large pool of users from all over the world for customer satisfaction based on the audio codec they used in a Skype-to-Skype call.

In the chart to the left the Mean Opinion Score rose from 3.4 using mobile phone audio quality [...]

Navoto fights roaming with Skype

Phil Wolff 19 April 2010 5:00 pm

Verizon‘s Skype mobile apps for Android and Blackberry, tied to Verizon’s Wi-Fi, won’t roam internationally. The new Navoto GSM Gateway for Skype offers a way around this. The gateway connects your hometown wireless carrier to your on-the-road mobile phone.

Omri Navot was one of the first to pioneer hardware that added value for Skype [...]

ecomm | events | facebook | Skype | USA

Will Skype open to web developers?

Phil Wolff 18 April 2010 12:30 am

Skype‘s Jonathan Rosenberg is speaking at eComm on Monday (11:15am). He’s one of Skype’s thought leaders, the company’s Chief Technology Strategist. I was really hoping he’d announce how Skype will play in ViPRland. His talk blurb goes in another direction:

Social Sharing 2.0: The Rise of Real-Time.

Social sharing through sites like Facebook [...]

Android | mobile | Skype | Verizon | VoIP

Skype on Verizon Android requires you to turn off WiFi

Phil Wolff 13 April 2010 1:07 am

I’m testing Skype mobile on a Motorola Droid with Verizon. I tried to launch Skype while other apps were busy with my WiFi downloading email, news, feeds, activity streams, apps, maps, music, podcasts, and television shows.

I get an error. Its text reads:

"Skype mobile does not currently work on WiFi and [...]

Skype for Apple iPhone OS4

Phil Wolff 12 April 2010 11:37 pm

David Ponsford demonstrated Skype as a background app at last week’s Apple briefing on the iPhone OS 4, coming mid-2010. John Chang, Skype’s lead iPhone developer, helped with the demo. David came to Skype from SpinVox Skype’s voicemail-to-text partner.

Several features announced at the OS4 preview event affect Skype. Multitasking, location services, data encryption [...]

fiction | fun | Skype

April Fools ideas for next year

Phil Wolff 2 April 2010 4:33 pm

Skype announces the return of the 1MB windows client. An end to bloat.

Skype HQ phone number auctioned on eBay.

Tencent Buys Skype, Moves HQ to Shenzhen. Now with free spyware.

AT&T and Comcast start bidding war for Skype.

Skype now translated into Na’vi, Klingon, Elvish, [...]

Ebay | fiction | fun

eBay buys back Skype; UPDATE: Skype to lead eBay

Phil Wolff 1 April 2010 10:01 am

"We missed them. We haven’t been as cool, or as profitable, since they left" said an eBay spokesman of Skype Ltd. "Since we own a swap meet, a mall, an ad network, a ticket agency, a car dealership, and a bank, a phone company should fit right in. It’s about harmony, not about synergy."

UPDATE: [...]