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May You And Your Skype Contacts Have a Happy, Healthy, and Prosperous New Year! For 2011: Platform Televisions from Philips, Sanyo Electric, TCL, Toshiba, and Vizio come with Skype apps preinstalled. Only two of Samsung, Panasonic and LG will continue to offer SkypeKit-based TVs. In Store Solutions, Skype consumer electronics partner and retail [...] Phil Wolff’s 67 Reckless Predictions for 2010 By Phil Wolff, on December 30th, 2009 30 NO, 24 YES, and a bunch of DON’T KNOWs. In 2010… A hot stranger will IM something inappropriate to you. (NO. Skype’s new filtering technology has been surprisingly good in 2010.) Skype‘s SilverLakeification will be complete, with a very short [...] Jim Courtney calls. His video looks funny. He usually calls in hi-def. And his head is extraordinarily big. That’s what your head looks like at arm’s length. Turns out he’s calling from his iPhone 4 at almost one in the morning. He didn’t sound that great; nothing bad but not [...] Now might be a great time to drop in to the Skype for iPhone forum on Skype.com. After you download the new Skype for iPhone 3.0. The video commercial, then the highlights, first look, screenshots and walkthroughs to follow. From the iTunes site: Improvements: Make Skype to Skype video calls on [...] “Skype for iPhone now has video,” say’s this in-client advert in my Skype for Windows app. The link goes to a #whatsnext teaser page. What could it all mean? P.S. Marketing thought leader and swing dancer B.L. Ochman must be picking up some extra traffic for her @whatsnext twitter feed and WhatsNextBlog.com. [...] Lars Rabbe, Skype’s CIO, reports today “around 50% of all Skype users globally were running the 5.0.0.152 version of Skype for Windows.” .152 is the build that crashed when another part of the network, offline instant messaging, became overloaded. So half of Skype’s users were using other versions and were not immediately affected. This slowed [...] UPDATE: From Julian Cain at 1:33 PM Pacific. Hi Phil. I’d like to clear up the node to supernode relationship. Each supernode determines it’s client connection list to be full at 350 active tcp connections. This means a supernode is considered at maximum capacity at roughly ~350 client connections however they will and [...] Its front facing camera should support VGA resolutions on Skype calls, assuming Skype for Android comes with video at CES in January. The Samsung Galaxy Player is said to be an Android counterpart to the iPod Touch. Looking forward to seeing it, testing battery life and video call quality with Skype and other video [...] The Guys From Queens Podcast Network team switched to Microsoft Live Messenger 2011 and Google Talk to get through the outage. “Nobody has delivered for our needs, anyway, the quality and stability that Skype is normally famous for.” Tom: “My business relies on it.” They talk through alternatives and why they use Skype for [...] Quora is hosting questions about Skype’s pre-Christmas 2010 outage. See how people are answering, clarify the questions, answer a few or, please, ask better questions. Explain what happened: What caused Skype to go down, today? How does Skype test software and systems changes affecting its network protocols? How well did Skype respond to the [...] Quora asks: “Is it reasonable to complain about a free service being down? Why or why not? A lot of people complaining about it being down, can you really complain about something that you don’t pay for? In my opinion of course you can be annoyed but complaining to the company about it? [...] |
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