The price is about 2 billions dollars, it seems that the purchase has been done by a group of private investor of which for now has not been revealed the identity.
Skype™ for sale
September 2nd, 20090
The price is about 2 billions dollars, it seems that the purchase has been done by a group of private investor of which for now has not been revealed the identity.
A trojan that record Skype™ calls
August 31st, 20090
The author of this trojan made available the source code and some video tutorial to learn to use its creation, they are available on his blog.
Skype™ 4.1 improve the audio/video quality and introduce the screen sharing
July 6th, 20090
To download and install Skype 4.1, visit the official website.
Free SkypeIn numbers
July 3rd, 20090
To be contacted over Skype from a landline phone or a cellphone you should provide the number with its extension, after composing the number, a voice will tell you to type the extension, at this time the call will be forwarded to Skype, that must be open and online.
Go Jajah, low-cost international VoIP calls by your cellphone
June 30th, 20090
How does it works? Go Jajah assign a local number to your international contact’s numbers located in your cellphone address book so everytime you make a call to these numbers Go Jajah deviate the call over the Internet to contact the receiver phone, and the cost is like a local call, for calls made all around the world.
For more informations and to use the software, visit the official site.
Flying VoIP (VoIP on airplanes)
May 25th, 20090
The service offered by Virgin America is not for free and the fee is variable from about 6 dollars to about 13 dollars.
The videocalls by Skype™ are blocked by default to maintain a quiet and restful cabin environment, anyhow you can use the GoGo service to interface Skype and use just text messages.
Skype™ for the iPhone
April 1st, 20090
At the momento you can make calls by Skype™ just via a wi-fi broadband connection using the wireless connection integrated into the iPhone.
Skype for the iPhone is compatible also with the iPod Touch (the 2nd generation one).
For more informations, visit the Skype™ website.
P.S.: this is not an April fool’s joke!
Skype™ open its SIP Protocol
March 24th, 20090
In a near future it will be possible to knock down almost completely the costs of normal phone calls, when most companies, offices and business activity will be equipped with easy and practical systems of voice communication by Internet, without the need to use a phone provider, if not for the broadband connection.
A defect is that the dispatch of normal fax is not still supported by the SIP protocol and it still need the use of a normale telephone line, even if soon, supposedly, the fax will be substituted by the Certified E-mail.
End of VoIP on the PSP
March 24th, 20090
“Although it proved a popular concept, achieving a significant number of registrations, it didn’t gain the number of regular users that British Telecom and Sony Computer Entertainment Europe were aiming for.”
Currently it seems that there isn’t an alternative software to Go!Messenger, we wait for possible future progresses.
Google Voice, Skype™ new rival
March 17th, 20090
Google Voice will give us free or low cost phone calls and SMS sending from landlines phones and cellphones.
More informations about Google Voice: http://www.grandcentral.com.
If you own a Gmail account, you can also try the new VoIP communication service called Gmail Voice, with high definition audio and video; official site: http://mail.google.com/videochat.