Mac users to get Skype upgrade
Skype, the mostly free voice over IP telephony company, announced on Tuesday it will release this week a Mac Skype starter kit that will include new communications software for Mac
Features of the revamped software include a calls in Windows feature and a “resizable” chat draw plus a more robust database that stores country codes accessed [...]
Kazaa, Skype, and now “The Venice Project”
Serial entrepreneurs Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis are at it again, this time with a venture for distributing TV and other video over the Net
Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, the entrepreneurs who created the pioneering Web applications Kazaa and Skype, are working on a new communications venture, BusinessWeek.com has learned. The pair plans to develop [...]
Skype plays down clone rumours
Skype has dismissed claims by a Chinese software company to have reverse-engineered the protocols that underlie the Internet telephony software used by millions. The news of a potential rival client able to use the Skype network was broken by VoIP blogger Charlie Paglee who posted a screenshot of the software on his site.
If true, this [...]
‘Skype clone’ surfaces in China
Chinese software developers have reportedly reverse engineered Skype’s internet telephony software to develop a clone. The unnamed company has developed a software client using the same protocol and encryption technology used by Skype. This software, which is still in the early stages of development, was used to call Charlie Paglee, co-founder of Voice over IP [...]
Skype Hacked?
Skype is dismissing a claim by a small team of Chinese engineers who say they have reverse engineered the protocol used for Skype Internet phone calls.
The development is being reported by Charlie Paglee, the chief executive officer of Vozin Communications, a voice-over-IP company that offers the Talqer plug-in for Google Talk, and which has operations [...]
Skype Announces Free International Calls with ‘Skype Days of Summer’ Offer
Skype®, the global Internet communications company, today announced that U.S. and Canadian-based Skype users can make free calls to traditional landlines and mobile phones in the United Kingdom, Mexico and Japan during three ‘Skype Days of Summer’ weekends, starting Saturday, July 15th. The three countries represent some of the most frequently called countries by Skype [...]
Gadget uses Skype to send TV anywhere
Fancy turning your copy of Skype into a watch-anywhere TV viewer? Now you can, courtesy of Japanese company Novac, which today announced a box that turns any suitably-specified PC into a machine for beaming TV shows to anyone on the internet.
The key is in the software. The box itself is an analogue TV tuner – [...]
Oregan Networks extends Skype functionalities to the television
Oregan Networks, a software provider that licenses its embedded solutions to consumer Electronic brands, today announced availability of a new feature for delivery of Skype message alerts and caller ID to TV-centric devices, aiming to further enrich the end consumer’s experience and interactivity. Oregan Media Browser, the embedded softwarvergence carriers and Cone product of the [...]
How to call anyworld in the world for FREE with Skype
Is the era of the old fashioned telephone dead? Say it isn’t so. I’m not talking about cell phones either, I’m talking about a dramatic development from those crazy cats at Skype. It was just reported from a good friend of mine, Chris, AKA “dubstylee,” that outgoing calls from Skype will be free until the [...]
StreamCast files RICO suit against Skype, KaZaA, and everyone inbetween
Anyone can sue anybody, and a lawsuit does not imply guilt but I’ve been informed that in documents fled in the U.S. District Court’s CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA (Western Division – Los Angeles) CIVIL DOCKET FOR CASE #: 2:06-cv-00391-FMC-E that back on January 20th StreamCast Networks, best known for their Peer to Peer technology, called [...]
