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Skype: Lost focus or an exit-play after all?

Skype: Lost focus or an exit-play after all?

by Larry Lisser on 11. May, 2011 in IP Communications, Larry Lisser, Skype, Telephony, Uncategorized, VoIP

When companies first launch, they’re often best at focusing in on their mission, on what they do best or – ideally – on the single biggest market problem they can address. Point is, they focus. And while this is often thanks to a strong leader, it just as often can be the sheer force of [...]

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Skype For Android is Here

by Luca on 05. Oct, 2010 in IP Communications, Luca, Skype

Today Skype announced the availability of their mobile client for the Android platform. It is available on the Android market for everyone. I just installed it on my HTC Desire running Froyo v2.2 and everything is working fine so far. It looks like it doesn’t work on every phone running Android 2.1, though, since others [...]

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The Doppler Effect: Skype Connect vs Google with free calls.

by Alec on 31. Aug, 2010 in Alec, Conferencing, Skype, Social Media, Telephony

Yesterday, Skype Connect launched.  Skype Connect is the formal release of the program started last fall called Skype for SIP.  Ostensibly designed to connect the enterprise PBX to Skype via SIP, Skype touts the fact that vendors like Cisco and Avaya are certified to work with their networks. There is, however, another story here.  Skype [...]

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Video? Finally?

Video? Finally?

by Thomas on 08. Jun, 2010 in Thomas

As many will say, the most exciting part of yesterday’s iPhone 4 announcement was the addition of FaceTime.  FaceTime is the ability for iPhones to call other iPhones using a two cameras (front and back) using WiFi, not the LAN.  As an old video geek, I have so much road-rash from my twenty years of [...]

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Tick, Tock, Core, Edge

Tick, Tock, Core, Edge

by admin on 18. May, 2010 in Thomas

Image by Chris Devers via Flickr My earliest memories involve an Atlantic beach, big waves and Business Week. Way before I went off to school, I recall going to with my mother to the beach every day in the summer. I would play in the sand; she would read Business Week. Earlier in her life, [...]

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Google Targets Skype

Google Targets Skype

by Alec on 18. May, 2010 in Alec

Last fall’s acquisition of Gizmo5 gave the Google voice team a nice SIP client. However, they still didn’t have anything to match Skype’s crack team of AV codec developers – the team responsible for SILK, and so many of the other quality innovations that differentiate Skype in the market place. Late last night Google moved [...]

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Skype: Your dream marketing job?

Skype: Your dream marketing job?

by Larry Lisser on 17. May, 2010 in IP Communications, Larry Lisser, Skype

Imagine for a moment – first day on the job – being told this is all you have to work with: More than a half billion users, with millions more joining every month A flood of metrics on how they communicate, what they use, and what they don’t use – but pay for anyways A [...]

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To Do Or Not To Do, That Is The Question

To Do Or Not To Do, That Is The Question

by Luca on 14. May, 2010 in Luca, Skype, Telephony

Image via Wikipedia Today Skype hit the news because Dan Neary, Skype’s Vice President for the Asia/Pacific region, during a conference told attendees that Skype won’t be developing anything for the new upcoming Windows 7-based mobile phones. MobileTechWorld looked into this statement and realized that what he actually said was not really “no Skype for [...]

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Has “Social Sharing” Become the “Nom du Jour”?

Has “Social Sharing” Become the “Nom du Jour”?

by Jim on 26. Apr, 2010 in jim, Skype, Social Media

I first came across the phrase “social sharing” during Jonathan Rosenberg’s Skype keynote presentation last Monday at eComm America 2010. But over the past weekend I have encountered two more instances where “social sharing” was the theme of a post or news item. So I have to ask: Where does “social networking” end and “social [...]

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Five Reasons Why We Should Say “Thank You” To Skype

Five Reasons Why We Should Say “Thank You” To Skype

by Luca on 14. Apr, 2010 in IP Communications, Luca, Skype, Telephony, VoIP

Image via Wikipedia For me it’s a no brainer, Skype has been the most disruptive thing that has happened to the telephony industry in the last decade. Since its launch, six years ago, Skype has taught us a lot of important lessons and there are many reasons why we should say “thank you” to the [...]

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