Here's three Skype products that aim to enhance your Skypeing experience that leaves me questioning exactly what I'm buying with Skype Certified. The three products are the VoSky Chatterbox, Jawbone Headset and the Motorola Wireless Interenet Calling Kit. Each provide a different angle on bettering the standard Skyper's headset and as you might expect each has their pro's and con's. VoSky Chatterbox. This simple USB device provides an easily portable plug and play speakerphone for ... continue reading.....

Deal done. Retail VOIP in the offing? Views later. eBay has agreed to acquire Luxembourg-based Skype Technologies SA, the global Internet communications company, for approximately $2.6 billion in up-front cash and eBay stock, plus potential performance-based consideration. Skype generated approximately $7 million in revenues in 2004, and the company anticipates that it will generate an estimated $60 million in revenues in 2005 and more than $200 million in 2006. For Q4-05, eBay expects the acquisition ... continue reading.....

Ashod's WigiWigi Video application has moved to the beta stage. The User Interface is still a bit crude for mom to use but the one-to-one video quality and fluidity is setting the bar higher for all contenders in this market. I will be doing more testing during the week and keep you posted. Right now it is for geeks only. But I don't think it will be that way for long. ... continue reading.....

This is Part One of a series of tips and tricks to achieving the ultimate video experience. Camera Setup Three simple rules: Have the main source of light coming from behind the web cam. Keep the video pic of your buddy immediately below the web cam. Have the web cam level center to your eyes. Following these rules will lead to balanced lighting. Both sides of your face should have equal lighting without shadows around ... continue reading.....

Skype Journal presents this guide to help developers learn Skype's Plug-in Architecture. -->(Download it in English, Italian, Japanese, Russian, or Spanish.) This guide steps you through the concepts. Your DIY project: build your own Skype answering machine. Along the way, you'll: Build tomorow's communications platform Customize & personalize SkypeCreate powerful applicationsUnderstand and work with the Skype API Thanks. This book is our first community project to help develop and support the Skype developer community. It ... continue reading.....

The network connection mouse-roll-overtool has a couple of new features in Skype's new 1.2.0.21 release. ... continue reading.....

Gem of the day from the Skype Forum. A very useful link to trouble shoot dial up calls when Skype is connected to the net via a dialup modem. Here is the Forum Thread http://forum.skype.com/viewtopic.php?t=19920&highlight= Here is the trouble shooting guidelines: http://www.56k.com/trouble/connect.shtml ... continue reading.....