Skype Services: Meet Hot Local Singles in Your Area?

No, this isn't a spam article, but I couldn't resist hacking out that headline. Skype has launched a service that allows subscribers to charge for incoming calls. Ideally, it allows phone-based businesses to jump to Skype without destroying their business model. So, ideally,...

Skype wants in on cellular networks

Skype.com has asked the Federal Communications Commission in the US to force cellular companies to "unlock" the handsets they sell to their customers, a move which would allow Skype users to make SkypeOut calls...

Have an affair, then Kish my butt

Happy Valentine's Day, all you crazy LOVAS! Gush, gush, muah, hugs and kisses and XO's.On this lovely, lusty and delicious day (that feels more like D-Day rather than V-Day) filled with warm hugs, gooey chocolate...

Skype Raids its Customer Base

As a major Skype user I have a love/hate thing for it. Anyone who has ever seen the movie The President's Analyst - and remembered the evils perpetrated by The Phone Company -  must feel vindicated by such a...

Skype partnering to penetrate and secure the enterprise market

"Skype plans to announce a partnership next week with a security company to help organizations gain control over usage of the Net telephony tool at work. The partnership is with Foster City, Calif.-based FaceTime...

eJamming: Skype for Musicians

Sometimes "phoning it in" is a good thing. (I am not affiliated with eJamming)"eJamming, which makes software that enables people to practice music together if their instruments are Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI)-enabled, is announcing a service that works for...

Skype Tries Harder to Call Your Wallet

After attracting millions of users and billions in valuation, Skype is still seeking to answer the always-there question about whether Skype is a growth business. Thursday the eBay subsidiary unveiled yet another plan to try to tap into Skype users’ wallets, an...

Charges Coming to Skype

It's been long established that there is no such thing as a free lunch, and it appears that free (or almost free) phone calls could be disappearing too: Skype users might have to cough up a few cents to connect to...

Online TV Gets a Jolt from Joost

"As if there aren't already enough ways to watch TV, the serial entrepreneurs behind Kazaa and Skype have announced Joost, which proves that there is no shortage of incomprehensible yet catchy five-letter names. The brainchild of Kazaa and Skype founders Niklas Zennstrom and...

Skype Founders Launch TV Killer

"wo Scandinavian entrepreneurs behind free online Skype telephone calls on Tuesday launched a new global broadband television service. The initiative marks the third start up by Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom,...

Skype founders unveil global online TV service

"Two Scandinavian entrepreneurs behind free online Skype telephone calls on Tuesday launched a new global broadband television service. The initiative marks the third start up by Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom,...

Trusted Advice from Real People - Bitwine.com demo at NY Tech Meetup

Bitwine.com Co-founder, Alon Cohen, demonstrates its application at the January 9th NYC Tech Meetup. Bitwine allows you to source experts and pay them for their time. The product leverages Skype's audio and video...

C4 and Skype duo confer over online TV plans

"Channel 4 is in talks with the billionaire entrepreneurs behind Skype and Kazaa to supply content to the pair's internet television venture. Janus Friis and Niklas Zennström made an estimated $2.5 billion (£1.3 billion) from the sale of Skype, the internet telephony...

NYC techies predict trends for 2007

"Last night was the year-end edition of the NY Tech Meetup, the monthly event organized by Meetup founder Scott Heiferman. It's a popular local event for the (re)emerging Silicon Alley set, usually drawing a crowd of over 500. One of this month's features was a set of...

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