Belkin gears up to ship Wi-Fi Skype phone in UK
Belkin will ship its Skype-friendly Wi-Fi VoIP phone this coming Monday, the accessory specialist’s UK operation said today. The 802.11b/g device also supports Wi-Fi’s various security schemes for secure calling, while its Skype support extends to the full range of telephony services offered by the VoIP company. The handset will retail for £100.
The Venice Project gears up for “primetime,” goes beta
Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom have already changed the world as we know it and intend to do it again with their latest venture, the Venice Project, P2P TV distribution. The Venice Project is their latest attempt to alter the traditional boundaries of media distribution. With KaZaA they reshaped the way the world shares multimedia [...]
Skype founder: Kazaa, Napster help music
Kazaa,Napster Inc and other creators of file-sharing applications have been good for the music industry, Niklas Zennstrom, founder of the now-defunct Kazaa and CEO of Skype, said Monday.
“Kazaa came five years too early, but without that and Napster we would never have seen the transformation we’re seeing in the music industry,” said Zennstrom at a [...]
Students fight for Skype
An effort by San Jose State University to ban the Skype phone service has been put on hold in the face of fierce objections from students and staff.
Administrators said they would meet with eBay, the owner of Skype, on Tuesday in order to give the San Jose-based company an opportunity to address the university’s concerns [...]
Skype Connects Macs, PCs
With the latest beta of Skype for the
Macintosh, released today, Skype hopes to help bridge the barrier between Macs and PCs for video calling.
Users of Skype for Mac 2.0 will be able to make video calls to both Mac and PC Skype users. Other options exist for such cross-platform video calling but not from the [...]
Philips launches PC-free Skype phone
Dutch Philips Electronics said on Thursday it would introduce the world’s first cordless DECT phone that can make Skype Internet calls without being connected to a personal computer.
The product will be available before the end of the year, Philips chief of consumer electronics activities, Rudy Provoost, told journalists at the IFA electronics fair here.
Skype, which [...]
Skype helped track fugitive from justice
ISRAELI newspaper Haaretz said private eyes tracked down the former CEO of Comverse when he used Skype from Shri Lanka.
Kobi Alexander used Skype for just a minute from Colombo, the capital of Sri Lanka.
He faces charges related to a stock option scandal at Comverse.
Why you can’t block Skype
“Talk is cheap and getting cheaper” proclaims a BBC article on VoIP and Skype. Not in the UAE it isn’t, nor in other countries that ban internet telephony. But as users find myriad ways to get around the blocks, it’s the short-sighted telcos who will ultimately lose out.
Who can forget these clever Chinese men who [...]
Skype teams up with McAfee
Internet communications company Skype has certified McAfee’s suite of anti-virus software.
McAfee Internet Security Suite 2006, McAfee VirusScan 2006 and McAfee Personal Firewall 2006 have all met Skype’s standards for security, quality and usability.
The security collaboration will mean files sent using the Skype file transfer function will be easily scanned by McAfee products adding an extra [...]
Skype Releases New Toolbars For Office, Outlook Express, Thunderbird
Skype has released three new toolbars for Web, email, and desktop applications, which allow people to make VoIP calls from directly within from popular applications including Microsoft Outlook Express and Internet Explorer.
The three new toolbars are the Skype Toolbar for Microsoft Office, Skype Toolbar for Outlook Express and Skype Toolbar for Thunderbird, which is Mozilla’s [...]
