skype

Nintendo has announced that a Wii Speak Channel will launch this November. Think of it as “Skype for the living room.” Read More »

For all the outrage over the Chinese government spying on Skype users, when it comes to privacy, consumers value the talk rather than walk the walk. We often don’t want the inconvenience that security requires (sometimes even re-entering passwords is too much), which can be a… Read More »

Skype President Josh Silverman says privacy breach in China is a TOM Online issue. Don’t blame them. Of course, he never talks about the number of Chinese Skype users – huge and big portion of Skype user base. Read More »

  Skype quietly closed its popular Skypecast personal broadcasting service late last month. The decision is setting off howls of protest from loyal users, who are ready to bolt to competitive services. In a brief missive on Aug. 26 entitled “Goodnight Skypecasts,” Skype announced it was closing… Read More »

There is nothing I want more that a Skype client for the iPhone. And Skype CEO Josh Silverman acknowledges that Skype is very serious about the mobile phone opportunity. So where is it? Continue Reading. Read More »

VoIP applications like Gorilla Mobile, Truphone and others are getting a lot of traction on iPhone. Read More »

Jeff LaPorte, co-founder and chief architect at EQO Communications, has come-up with an IM Map of the world using his company’s IM interconnect capability, showing each country seems to have a preference for a different IM network. For instance, 77.18 percent of Argentineans love MSN, followed by… Read More »

No Takebacks: 5 Most Screwed-Up Tech Buys

As the tech world gets itself in a tizzy over Google saying its 5 percent stake in AOL might be impaired — basically it may now be worth less than they thought it was — we thought we’d revisit some of the most notable tech writedowns… Read More »

Telerupted: Worldwide Communication

The disruption potential of VoIP lies not so much in its ability to push down the cost of telephone service than in its ability to get consumers to ignore the telephone business altogether. The nature of the Internet makes VoIP advantageous even after the cost… Read More »

SIPphone Makes The Call To Jajah

Jajah, in its effort to become a backend platform for VoIP services, has started offering call termination, billing and other such services to one and all comers. They got a big boost when they signed up Yahoo! Now, the Sequoia Capital-backed company has signed up SIPphone, the… Read More »

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