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Niklas Zennstrom’s Ran Yacht Wins Cowes

What do you do if you’ve sold your business for X billion dollars?
Well if you’re Niklas Zennstrom of Skype and Kazza fame, you share a passion with other Tech billionaires, like Oracle’s Larry Ellison - Sailing.
If you’ve got large bundles of cash in your pockets, you don’t just get any old boat and hope that […]

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Skype Tip: Editing Your IM Text

Of equal value, if not greater, to Skype’s voice calling is the IM (Instant Messengering).
Given the IM usefulness, we thought we’d pass on to you on a tip that we found out a little while ago.

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Skype Hits 100 Billion Free Minutes

Skype has passed a pretty significant milestone, serving over 100 billion (US billion) minutes of Skype-to-Skype calls, be that voice and video calls. Yes, that’s 100,000,000,000 free discussion minutes since Skype’s launch in 2003.

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Skype Fess Up To Internal Routing Problem

Quick follow up on the SkypeIn mis-routing story that we broke a couple of days a go.
Skype have now issued us a statement (don’t rush yourselves will you).
We’re aware of the problem and currently working to fix it. In the meantime, if any customers are experiencing problems, they can contact customer service at sichange@skype.net

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0207 SkypeOut Woes Continue

You’ll remember the outcry when Skype forced many of their 0207 SkypeIn subscribers to change their phone numbers late last year, due to Skype changing their suppliers, following an increase in costs.
Many didn’t take up Skype’s offer to use new SkypeIn numbers, opting instead to transfer their SkypeIn number to another VoIP provider (we changed […]

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Skype on PSP Confirmed

Skype _will_ be coming to Sony’s PSP.
Following on from all of the faux-shyness of Skype and Sony refusing to officially confirm that Skype was going to be seen on the Sony PSP at CES, they’ve just released the news that … tad daaaa … it is. So no shock there and both Sony and Skype […]

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PSP Skype Coming At CES

It looks like Sony will unveil Skype running on their PSP at CES, which starts in a few days.
Sony’s CES site has details of the PSP’s system feature including the key phrase …

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VoIPFone Review: Save Yourself From SkypeIn

Skype seriously annoyed a lot of people when they gave less than a month to have their London SkypeIn phone numbers - many their main business number - changed by 20 December.
We were one of those unfortunates too, so were forced to take action.

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0207 SkypeIn Scandal: Cost Made Skype Drop Numbers

Looking for an alternative for Skype In?
Read our VoIPFone review.

As you know, we - and a lot of other people - aren’t impressed with Skype’s plans to cut off many of their 0207 London SkypeIn customers.
We’ve been following this story up through various avenues, one being the company that provided the 0207 number to Skype […]

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Skype/Logitech HQ Video Service London Launch (Video)

We head into Soho to check out Skype’s new high quality video service launch.

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