Posted by Simon Perry on 17 February 2009 | Tagged as: 3G, Industry Trends, Mobile, Nokia, Skype, Wireless
Big news for Skype and Nokia … and in turn mobile phone operators. It’s just announced that Skype will be integrated into Nokia handsets, starting in the 3rd quarter of 2009 with the N97. As well as allowing Skype calls via 3G and WiFi, Skype to Skype calls will be free (excluding any data charges), [...]
Posted by Mike Slocombe on 27 January 2009 | Tagged as: Business, Google, Services, Skype, VoIP
Rumours abound that Skype is up for sale with Google a potential purchaser.
Posted by Simon Perry on 11 August 2008 | Tagged as: Skype, UK
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 [...]
Posted by Simon Perry on 3 April 2008 | Tagged as: Services, Skype, Software
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.
Posted by Simon Perry on 21 February 2008 | Tagged as: Services, Skype, VoIP
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.
Posted by Simon Perry on 25 January 2008 | Tagged as: Skype, VoIP
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 [...]
Posted by Simon Perry on 23 January 2008 | Tagged as: Skype, UK, VoIP
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 [...]
Posted by Simon Perry on 7 January 2008 | Tagged as: Mobile, Services, Skype, Sony, VoIP
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 [...]
Posted by Simon Perry on 3 January 2008 | Tagged as: Services, Skype, VoIP
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 …
Posted by Simon Perry on 17 December 2007 | Tagged as: Skype, UK, VoIP
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.
