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Given that the Skype site's third-party software taxonomy is still a bit less intuitive than it ought to be, I'd recommend VoIP News' Hacking Skype: 25 Tips To Improve Your Skype Experience as a resource you might want to check out.
The title is a bit unintentionally misleading. The balance of these tips really aren't [...]
Written by Russell Shaw on February 7th, 2007 with no comments.
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Parsing Skype parent eBay's 4Q and 2006 earnings reports today, we learn that:
Skype net revenues totaled $66 million in Q4-06, a growth rate of 164% over the $25 million reported in Q4-05. The Q4-05 revenue amount represented the operations of Skype from the acquisition date of October 14, 2005 through the end of Q4-05.
Skype [...]
Written by Russell Shaw on January 25th, 2007 with no comments.
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While I was at the Skype press conference at CES and got a good look at the several new phones that were announced, Garrett Smith of the Smith on VoIP blog also grabbed some hands-on first impressions about the products being debuted.
Here's some of his reactions to each. First the Topcom WebT@lker 5000:
Although the Topcom [...]
Written by Russell Shaw on January 16th, 2007 with no comments.
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Last night at one of those Consumer Electronics Show par-tays, I found myself downing Fiji Waters and chattin' with friend Phil Wolff. Phil runs Skype Journal.
All of a sudden, the conversation turned to those "Skype Me" buttons that eBay sellers can place next to some of their listings. You know, call me via Skype and [...]
Written by Russell Shaw on January 12th, 2007 with no comments.
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My trip to CES in Las Vegas started last night in a most interesting way. At the gate, I noticed a fellow with a Dell, and a headset. I asked him if he was talking over Skype, and what I got was several stories about how wonderful Skype as a tool for family communication over [...]
Written by Russell Shaw on January 9th, 2007 with no comments.
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Just out of Skype press conference at CES.
The most interesting product info stuff:
NETGEAR Dual-Mode Cordless Phone with Skype (SPH200D)- connects simultaneously to a home network router and a phone line jack. This enables users to place and receive PSTN and Skype calls from a single cordless handset without the need for a PC tether.
Philips VoIP841 [...]
Written by Russell Shaw on January 9th, 2007 with no comments.
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San Jose-based IPEVO is getting ready to rollout two new Skype devices at the Consumer Electronics Show. These are a multifunctional speakerphone called TRIO, and free.2,a USB handset phone with LCD.
Shown at top The PC and Mac-compatible free.2, which will cost $44.99, will offer standards Skype calling but will come with a recording button [...]
Written by Russell Shaw on January 8th, 2007 with no comments.
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Over the last couple of weeks I have been counting down the ten most-read posts on this blog during 2006.
We're down to #1.
Drum roll please..
Checking our server logs I see that our top-ranked post of the year is Skype vs. Gizmo UI? Hah! No comparison.
Despite the fact that this post was published "eons" ago [...]
Written by Russell Shaw on December 28th, 2006 with no comments.
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Earlier today I blogged about how Skype's new $14.95 a year ($29.99 a month for sign-up after January 31) unlimited North American calling plan is a full-frontal assault on the ATA-based VoIP service providers like Vonage, as well as the telcos.
But amazingly, a good portion of the mainstream media as well as some bloggers [...]
Written by Russell Shaw on December 14th, 2006 with no comments.
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I take great pleasure in reading passionate pieces where the writer calls attention to faulty and widespread thinking. (I like to write such pieces myself but I give props to other thought leaders no prob.)
Writing on Valleywag, author and frequent conventional wisdom debunker Clay Shirky really has hit the mark with his column "A [...]
Written by Russell Shaw on December 14th, 2006 with no comments.
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To be formally unveiled today, Skype's new upfront, $29.95 a year Unlimited Calling subscription plan ($14.95 for signups by January 31)for calls within the U.S. and Canada is a milepost in Skype's move to be a major Internet phone provider within North America- as opposed to predominantly an international calling service.
It's also a major [...]
Written by Russell Shaw on December 13th, 2006 with no comments.
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Telecom research firm TeleGeography says that about half of Skype's voice traffic is international. We're talking about about 4.4 percent of all the 264 billion global minutes carried on VoIP as well as circuit-switched lines.
Parsing the numbers further, we see that Skype's portion of all global phone minutes increased from 2.9 percent of such [...]
Written by Russell Shaw on December 5th, 2006 with no comments.
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Written by Skype Journal on December 4th, 2006 with no comments.
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Written by Skype Journal on December 1st, 2006 with no comments.
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Phil at Skype Journal notes that Skype has moved marketing functions from countries back to London in a reorganization announced this week. About 40 of the 516 people working at Skype worldwide are affected, 26 of those shifting roles or locations and 14 who are leaving or who have yet to [...]
Written by Russell Shaw on December 1st, 2006 with no comments.
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Those of us who are opposed to mobile carriers putting up barriers to VoIP calling can't be thrilled by Nokia's upgrade to its Nokia Flexi Intelligent Service Node (touted in the excerpt from a Flash demo, shown at top).
The Node tool, which is available to carriers, is set to offer a particularly insidious software [...]
Written by Russell Shaw on November 28th, 2006 with no comments.
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Written by Skype Journal on November 24th, 2006 with no comments.
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Written by Skype Journal on November 23rd, 2006 with no comments.
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Written by Skype Journal on November 23rd, 2006 with no comments.
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If you go to the Skype for eBay sellers page on Skype-owner eBay's site, you get a basic rundown on how easy it is to add Skype buttons to your eBay auctions. You're even told what a cool idea this is.
But one thing you won't read is case histories.
For any online business, case histories [...]
Written by Russell Shaw on November 22nd, 2006 with no comments.
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Written by Skype Journal on November 19th, 2006 with no comments.
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Just got a tip that as of an hour ago, 174 Sony Playstation3 consoles have sold on eBay for an average selling price of $2,618.47; since its availability on eBay in pre-sale [10/17- today], 3533 PS3 have been sold in pre-sale to date for an average sold price of $1,788.88.
You're looking at a [...]
Written by Russell Shaw on November 18th, 2006 with no comments.
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I've been having a little fun with alexaholic, a type of Alexa mash-up that lets you compare estimated page view totals and traffic patterns for several websites over specific lengths of time.
Let's compare relative page view rankings for Skype, Vonage, Packet 8, Gizmo Project and SunRocket site views over a six month period, and then [...]
Written by Russell Shaw on November 17th, 2006 with no comments.
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Skype Journal's Jim Courtney offers a profound, constructive criticism of Skype's failure to strategically and specifically articulate the newly released Skype 3.0's feature set and advantages.
I'll second my emotion to what Jim is saying here. Distilled, he points out that although an embargoed press release was available before launch, neither the press release nor [...]
Written by Russell Shaw on November 17th, 2006 with no comments.
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Written by Skype Journal on November 16th, 2006 with no comments.
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When eBay announced back in September, 2005 that it was paying some $2.6 billion to buy Skype, I got it. Lots of "SkypeMe" buttons next to eBay adverts! Yes, I saw the same slides eBay CEO Meg Whitman showed eBay stakeholders.
But more than a year later, I have to agree with Kevin J. O'Brien [...]
Written by Russell Shaw on November 15th, 2006 with no comments.
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Has it already been more than a year since eBay decided to cough up as much as $4.2-billion for Skype? The International Herald Tribune takes a look at the deal and how Skype has evolved within the eBay empire. So did eBay get suckered into making a pre-emptive bid ahead of rival suitors such as Google, or did eBay made a savvy move by acquiring the world's leading VoIP player? So far, there has been little indication eBay has been able to do anything with Skype strategically other than giving sellers the option of putting "Skype Me" buttons on their stores. On the other hand, Skype as a telecom service provider is showing promise as a standalone business. In the past year, the number of registered Skype users has more than doubled to 136 million, while Skype's revenue is expected to more than triple this year to $195-million from $60-million in 2005. But is that enough to justify spending $4.2-billion? The answer - and apologies for being so wishy-washy - is only time will tell. But let's conservatively assume Skype's sales see compound growth 25% over the next five years. This would result in sales of $675-million by 2011 with healthy profit margins. That's a pretty good business. Let's also assume eBay can use Skype to get into the pay-per-call market, which the Kelsey Group forecasts will become a $1.4-billion to $4-billion business by 2009. Assuming Skype captures 10% of the PPC market, that would be another $140-million to $400-million of sales - boosting Skype's total revenue to $810-million to $1.1-billion. Again, that's a pretty good business. Of course, the $4.2-billion price-tag will always be used as a benchmark on how the deal is "valued". But if Skype grows as expected, its acquisition may look like a pretty good move in five years. Tags: eBay, Skype, VOIP, M&A
Written by Mark Evans on November 14th, 2006 with no comments.
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Written by Skype Journal on November 13th, 2006 with no comments.
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Written by Skype Journal on November 13th, 2006 with no comments.
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Written by Skype Journal on November 10th, 2006 with no comments.
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Written by Skype Journal on November 9th, 2006 with no comments.
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Written by Skype Journal on November 9th, 2006 with no comments.
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Written by Skype Journal on November 9th, 2006 with no comments.
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Written by Skype Journal on November 8th, 2006 with no comments.
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