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Skype has had its most tumultuous year yet, but all the problems are finally behind it and the company can focus on growth and revenue as opposed to lawsuits. eBay has announced that it has finalized the sale it first revealed several months ago and that Skype is now a separate private company, although eBay still re... |
20 November 2009
08:40 GMT |
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It's official, the Skype saga is finally over, with all parties involved most likely satisfied with the results, though not exactly thrilled. eBay got rid of Skype, allowing it to focus on its other assets, most notably PayPal, the investors got a nice piece of the VoIP service and Skype's founders also got... |
6 November 2009
09:50 GMT |
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Skype's legal troubles may finally be heading towards a resolution, as the parties involved are closer to a settlement. But, as expected, there are a couple of concessions that the company had to make in order to make things work. The agreement is between Skype's founders, the ones behind all of the lawsuit... |
4 November 2009
03:58 GMT |
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Skype's legal troubles may finally be getting closer to an end, as Skype's founders and eBay are apparently in talks for a settlement. According to the GigaOm blog, sources close to the talks say that the two parties are going over their differences, but the discussions could still go either way and are far... |
2 November 2009
03:45 GMT |
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EBay has just announced its third quarter financial results which, despite being better than expected, still managed to drive down share prices after the company also predicted a slightly worse performance in the coming quarter. eBay managed to bring in $2.23 billion in revenue in Q3, a six percent bump over last yea... |
22 October 2009
11:38 GMT |
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Music streaming is becoming increasingly popular at least with entrepreneurs and in some cases with the public as well. It's still as unprofitable and risky as ever but that doesn't seem to faze anyone. Spurred by Spotify's success, in terms of users not actual revenue, a number of music streaming serv... |
17 October 2009
06:23 GMT |
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Skype's future is looking anything but secure, even with the recent sale, and with things getting a little desperate, the VoIP service seems to be looking at all options to ensure its survival. The latest rumor is that Skype is looking to buy peer-to-peer VoIP startup Gizmo5 for around $50 million. The deal is f... |
14 October 2009
07:02 GMT |
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EBay is on track to sell Skype despite the mounting legal issues, eBay CEO John Donahoe said. Earlier this month the company announced that it had reached an agreement with several private equity investors to buy a 65 percent stake in the VoIP company for $1.9 billion. Skype has been involved in a lawsuit with a comp... |
24 September 2009
04:03 GMT |
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Despite mounting legal issues and the recent sale, Skype is moving ahead with plans to increase revenue. One area where it wants to generate more income is from business services and the company has just announced that its Skype for SIP offering is now supported by Cisco’s Unified Communications 500 Series for ... |
23 September 2009
10:41 GMT |
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When eBay announced it had sold a majority stake in Skype a few weeks behind, it looked like all its problems were mostly over. This week's developments turned that expectation on its head after Joltid sued Skype for several counts of copyright infringement. Just a few days later, Joost, another company controll... |
19 September 2009
05:24 GMT |
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Today's digital homes include a range of new devices and gadgets that are meant to simplify one's life and enable an easier way to communicate with friends and family. On that note, Taiwanese manufacturer ASUS has just announced the official debut of its new Touch AiGuru SV1T Videophone, designed to provide... |
18 September 2009
05:35 GMT |
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A new version of Skype is available for Mac OS X users. Delivering improvements and enhanced compatibility with Snow Leopard, Skype version 2.8.0.722 also adds screen sharing (share what you’re seeing on your computer over a free call) and better sound and video. Skype uses the P2P (peer-to-peer) technology to... |
18 September 2009
03:59 GMT |
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The Skype deal has managed to complicate itself so much that a reader can lose track of events as days go by. Times Online has reported that Skype's original founders, Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom, have filed a copyright infringement claim at the District court of North Carolina, accusing eBay of sharing and... |
17 September 2009
06:41 GMT |
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With the new owners announced just last week, Skype is already starting to make changes, but that doesn't always mean they're for the better. In fact, the first move is to axe Skype's effort to create a third-party app environment that the Skype Extras Developer Program launched with much enthusiasm a ... |
12 September 2009
02:30 GMT |
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The Skype deal proves to have some messy complications, at least for some. Yesterday, Joost, the troubled online video company, announced that it outed former CEO Michelangelo Volpi from his latest position as chairman of the board. What does this have to do with Skype? Volpi is now general partner at Index Ventures,... |
12 September 2009
01:55 GMT |
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Skype, the popular VoIP app now available for iPhone too, has received an update delivering over a dozen enhancements and changes, including the ability to set up call forwarding from your iPhone. Skype is free to download and use on any iPhone or iPod touch model running iPhone OS 2.2 or later. According to the iTu... |
8 September 2009
05:27 GMT |
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EBay has announced the sale of its VoIP service Skype to a group of investment companies, confirming the previous speculation. EBay will retain 35 percent of the company, with the other 65 percent being sold for $1.9 billion in cash and a note from the buyer in the principal amount of $125 million. The transaction is... |
1 September 2009
11:02 GMT |
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Rumors of an impending Skype sale are getting more substantial after first popping up last week. The gist of the deal is that eBay will sell Skype to a group of private investors made up of venture capital funds and private equity firms. Among the likely names put forward is the newly formed Andreesen Horowitz fund, ... |
1 September 2009
03:14 GMT |
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The Skype acquisition wasn't one of the smartest moves eBay made. This, despite being one of the few bright spots in its inventory and seeing a 25 percent rise in revenue in Q2 this year. Still, the company plans to spin off Skype as a separate entity in an IPO sometime next year but now there may be another opt... |
28 August 2009
06:51 GMT |
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Ruben Unteregger, a 33-year-old software developer from Switzerland, has made public the source code of a trojan that taps into Skype conversations, records all audio data and sends it back to the attacker. This latest development comes after a serious scandal that flamed in 2006 about the usage of a similar Skype wi... |
27 August 2009
10:53 GMT |
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EBay acquired Skype in 2005, planning to integrate it with its auctions site to provide communication tools to sellers and buyers. It didn't quite turn out as planned, though the service is making decent amounts of money, and now eBay wants to spin off the company in an IPO, but those plans may be derailed by a ... |
31 July 2009
06:17 GMT |
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In an unprecedented act, Russia's mobile phone operators have met with state officials and proposed several law amendments to limit the usage of Internet-based telephony. The action is considered to be aimed at external operators like Skype and ICQ, which have taken a big bite out of the communications & telepho... |
27 July 2009
04:57 GMT |
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Ebay's financial results for the second quarter came in and they're pretty much in keeping with the rest of the industry and the general trend, with revenue and income slightly down but ahead of analysts’ expectations. Revenue dipped 4.5 percent, from $2.2 billion in Q2 2008 to $2.1 billion in this ye... |
23 July 2009
04:11 GMT |
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Wireless carrier 3 recently announced the introduction of the high-end Nokia N97 to its offering. The UK operator already has the phone available for purchase since last week. The news might not be as interesting as it seems for some, yet those who are not yet aware of this should know that the operator has the N97 a... |
2 July 2009
06:20 GMT |
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Skype is at its 1.1 release on iPhone and iPod touch, delivering new features like the ability to send SMS messages using Skype credit and voicemail support. The developers also managed to improve dialing help, while adding support for several new languages. Skype is a free download from the iTunes App Store. Accord... |
1 July 2009
09:58 GMT |
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Skype hasn't proven the success eBay was hoping for when it bought the company in 2005 for $2.6 billion. The idea at the time was to integrate the voice-chat capabilities in its auction site, offering users a way to communicate, but it since gave up on the thought and recently announced plans to spin off the com... |
27 June 2009
08:16 GMT |
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Truphone 3.0 is seeing its release on the second supported Apple handheld, the iPod touch. The company developing the software noted that the immense success garnered by the iPhone version of Truphone 3.0 made them “keen to follow-up as quickly as possible for all [...] iPod touch customers.” The Truphon... |
1 June 2009
08:31 GMT |
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Handheld video game consoles are evolving these days, with devices such as the PlayStation Portable or the Nintendo DS outgrowing their first capabilities and, through recent installments like the PSP-3000 and the Nintendo DSi, getting more and more features. But with features such as music and video playback, wirel... |
27 April 2009
13:01 GMT |
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It seems that users in the UK who have a 3 SIM card will be able to make unlimited Skype-to-Skype calls without having to pay extra for the service, at least this is what Hutchison 3G UK (or 3 UK) announced that it planned to offer starting next month. According to the carrier, subscribers that use Skype on 3 UK&rsqu... |
24 April 2009
05:25 GMT |
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Rumors that eBay is planning to sell Skype have been officially proven correct in the sense that the giant company indeed intends to separate from the popular calling service Skype, and the first step in this direction is an initial public offering (IPO) planned for the first half of next year – its exact date... |
16 April 2009
01:55 GMT |
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Recently, it has been revealed that the European founders of the most well-known VoIP service, namely Skype, are trying to become its rightful owners again by purchasing it back from eBay. The persons in question are Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, who have reportedly approached a number of private equity firms and... |
15 April 2009
01:59 GMT |
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The European Commission is reported to plan on forcing mobile phone carriers to accept Voice-over-IP applications. According to the reports, EU's telecoms commissioner, Viviane Reding, asked the EU to “undo arbitrary obstacles to 'innovative services' on cellphones.” In addition, it seems t... |
13 April 2009
11:26 GMT |
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According to a Skype blog post, the iPhone version of the application, that was recently released in the App Store, has been downloaded more than a million times. The free app allows users with a Skype account to place and receive free calls via the VoIP protocol. According to at least one report, Germany's Deut... |
3 April 2009
09:52 GMT |
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It seems that BlackBerry users will soon have yet another popular application available for their devices, namely Skype. While a version of the software solution was recently announced to become available for Apple's iPhone, now we learn that another version is to be released for Research in Motion's device... |
1 April 2009
08:18 GMT |
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Skype Inc. has issued an official report announcing the immediate availability of a Skype client for iPhone and iPod touch. Available in the App Store as of today, the free application is supported on all iPhone models and the second generation iPod touch with a compatible headset and microphone, according to the app... |
31 March 2009
08:23 GMT |
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Skype has been released as a free download for iPhone and iPod touch users. The application + service allows users to call each other for free using the VoIP protocol, via WiFi, Edge, or GPRS. Surprisingly, iPhone OS 3.0 users can use AT&T's connection to place and receive calls over 3G.“Skype is free call... |
31 March 2009
03:26 GMT |
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A free Skype application for iPhone will finally be available to download from the iTunes App Store sometime on Tuesday, CNET news has confirmed after sitting down with the lead engineer working on the iPhone Skype client.“We got a chance to sit down with the application's principal engineer before the ann... |
30 March 2009
06:20 GMT |
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Skype has recently announced the release of its Skype 3.0 Beta for the Windows Mobile operating system. The new version of the popular application comes with a series of fixes, but also includes some rather attractive new features, among which we can count SMS and file transfer capabilities. The new Skype 3.0 Beta ... |
25 March 2009
10:30 GMT |
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Earlier this month at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Skype and Nokia announced that the popular software would come embedded into the mobile phone maker's devices, beginning with the N97 handset, which is expected to hit the market sometime in June. Unfortunately, it seems that the deal has seen some r... |
28 February 2009
09:01 GMT |
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One of the most popular and most efficient ways to communicate with friends, family or colleagues is eBay's Skype Internet telephony service, which is able to provide all users with either free or very low-cost calls all around the world. The service has been recently enhanced with a new feature, one that allo... |
27 February 2009
06:40 GMT |
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Sony Computer Entertainment Europe and the BT telecommunications company are announcing that they are planning to take Go!Messenger, a service that offered free calls from handheld to handheld in Europe, offline at the end of the month of March.The statement offered by Sony on its official forum says that “Alth... |
25 February 2009
02:22 GMT |
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Skype and Nokia announced today a partnership meant to deliver one of the leading Internet communications experience on the Nokia series of mobile handsets. According to the new agreement the two have signed, Skype will get integrated onto Nokia devices starting with the company's Nseries of mobile phones.The fi... |
17 February 2009
08:54 GMT |
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According to the latest news on the Web, Skype is expected to announce the release of new versions for its software applications at the Mobile World Congress next month in Barcelona. It seems that the eBay-owned company recently stated that it would launch “new versions of Skype for various operating systems us... |
31 January 2009
06:46 GMT |
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Skype COO Scott Durchslag has announced today, at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, a new Lite version of Skype designed for Android phones, which offers users the possibility to make voice calling to other mobile devices or desktops that have Skype, yet it is unable to allow video calling. According to the... |
9 January 2009
04:00 GMT |
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Skype is already a well known software that allows users to make telephone calls over the Internet, free of charge, along with offering them the possibility of traditional instant messaging, making file transfers and video conferencing.Until now, mobile phone users could benefit from a version of Skype developed for ... |
9 October 2008
04:13 GMT |
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Although video calls and video-telephony are yet to reach their peak, it would seem that we're certainly on the right track. And that's because none other than ASUS (which seems to be "spreading" its tentacles to all sorts of new market segments lately) has just launched what it touts to be the world's... |
18 September 2008
14:41 GMT |
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Hundreds of people reported to Skype that their accounts had been hacked. The victims either couldn't log in anymore, or discovered that unapproved payments had been made by someone using the embedded PayPal option. The transactions performed via Skype prompted users to vehemently complain about the security bre... |
3 September 2008
05:09 GMT |
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Skype and 3 UK have recently announced the release of Skypephone S2, the second mobile phone that can offer Skype calling and messaging free of charge. Users can pre-order a Skypephone S2 as of now, but the handset will only be available starting 27 August online and September 1 in 3's stores across the UK. Tog... |
21 August 2008
06:22 GMT |
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Skype, the free and popular software that enables users to chat, make calls over the Internet and transfer files, is not compatible with Microsoft's latest Windows Mobile 6.1 OS for Pocket PCs. The new version of the software, namely 2.2.0.45, is freshly released and it finally allows owners of Windows Mobile 6... |
1 August 2008
10:32 GMT |
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Users must know that by setting up an account with Skype in order to make free online calls, they are also exposing themselves to a security problem. The thing is that if you no longer want to use your account and decide to get rid of it, you will find out that deleting it is impossible. The only thing that you can d... |
25 July 2008
08:48 GMT |
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