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Skype drops open-source appeal

News Skype has abandoned its efforts to avoid complying with an open-source licence that requires it to provide source code with Linux-based VoIP phones. The licence requires vendors to ship source code with any open-source product but Skype's WSKP100...

Tags: skype, gpl, open source

[12 May 2008]

Skype trialled on Java mobiles

News Skype has released a test version of a client for Java-enabled mobile devices, a move which the company said is a significant step forward for its mobile strategy. With the new client, Skype joins a number of companies, such as Fring and Truphone...

Tags: java, mobile, skype

[30 Apr 2008]

Come an' Avatalk in Second Life, urges BT

News When asked about the benefits of Avatalk over other free VoIP services - such as Skype - Brotherton said: "It really comes down to the rich immersiveness of virtual worlds. The one month virtual world pilot will start on 26 March allowing users to...

Tags: bt, trial, ip, sms

[20 Mar 2008]

Profile: Nandan Nilekani, co-chairman, Infosys

News Niklas Zennström Skype Nandan Nilekani is pretty much a legend in his own lifetime. Co-founder of Indian outsourcing giant Infosys, foundation board member of the World Economic Forum, co-founder of the Indian National Association of Software and...

Tags: infosys, banking, nandan nilekani, founder

[03 Mar 2008]

Steve Ballmer's $44.6bn letter to Yahoo!

News Niklas Zennström Skype Microsoft today made a $44.6bn offer for web giant Yahoo! valuing the company 62 per cent higher than its latest stock value. According to Microsoft, the bid is intended to better position the two companies in the online...

Tags: microsoft, web, ads, yahoo!

[01 Feb 2008]

Nokia to buy Trolltech and keep it on the Qt

News Qt forms the basis of many well-known desktop applications, such as Google Earth, Opera and Skype. Wireless from A to Z Click on the links below to find out more… A is for Antivirus B is for Bluetooth

Tags: nokia, linux, trolltech, handsets

[28 Jan 2008]

Skype fights to regain trust of businesses

News Skype has sought to reassure its business customers they can trust it in the future, despite the withdrawal of thousands of central London numbers from its SkypeIn users. SkypeIn is a paid-for function of the largely free Skype internet...

Tags: skype, skypein, phone, telco

[12 Dec 2007]

Oracle users demand better support

News Niklas Zennström Skype Oracle customers want better product support through improved call centres and more information about services. Ronan Miles, chairman of the UK Oracle User Group, told silicon.com: "Areas of issue are in the support sphere.

Tags: fusion, oracle, india, egypt

[10 Dec 2007]

Steve Jobs top of the Power pops

News Niklas Zennström Skype Apple co-founder and chief executive Steve Jobs has topped a list of the 25 most powerful business people in the world. Jobs took the top spot in Fortune magazine's Power 25 for 2007, for having "twice altered the direction...

Tags: apple, google, steve jobs, jobs

[29 Nov 2007]

European software industry gets big thumbs up

News Niklas Zennström Skype The European software industry is booming at the moment, according to IT trade association Intellect. At an awards ceremony in Brussels, Intellect announced the top European IT companies for 2007 - the 'Truffle 100'.

Tags: europe, awards, intellect, software

[22 Nov 2007]

Gartner: CIOs - develop business analytics or IT loses out

News Niklas Zennström Skype CIOs that want to protect their IT budget from being slashed need to develop business analytic capabilities, according to new research from IT analyst group Gartner. Pressure on IT budgets should be relieved by 2010, said...

Tags: cio, budget, it, business processes

[21 Nov 2007]

VoIP-over-3G to make some noise

News I see operators becoming somewhere between 'accepting' and 'resigned to it' on laptops - it is very difficult to say 'it's just like DSL but you can't use Skype'," he said. VoIP-over-3G will be far more successful than the voice-over-wi-fi approach...

Tags: voip, voip-over-3g, wi-fi, 3g

[19 Nov 2007]

MySpace and Skype to get chatty

News MySpace and Skype are set to announce a tie-in that will see the eBay-owned telephony client providing voice chat services for the News Corp-owned social network's instant messaging client, MySpaceIM.

Tags: im, voip, myspace, skype

[17 Oct 2007]

eBay takes $900m hit for Skype buy

News Don't call it a bust just yet but it's fair to say eBay executives aren't thrilled with what they're getting out of Skype, which the auction king bought for $2.6bn two years ago.eBay has now said it will take a $900m so-called impairment write...

Tags: voip, skype, ebay

[02 Oct 2007]

Skype swats "massive" outage bug

News Skype has fixed a software bug that made the internet telephony service almost unusable for two days last week. According to a statement released by Skype, the outage - which affected the majority of Skype's user base - came about on Thursday with...

Tags: outage, bug, voip, skype

[20 Aug 2007]

eBay makes $75m bid for StumbleUpon

News The auction giant's most famous acquisition is arguably internet telephony service Skype, which it purchased back in 2005.eBay's senior director Michael Buhr said in a statement: "StumbleUpon is a great fit within our goal of pioneering new...

Tags: stumbleupon, ebay

[31 May 2007]

Cisco: Businesses must learn from social networks

News That's evident by the success of Google, Skype, Yahoo! Social networks are the best way for companies to understand the future of how content will be distributed and consumed. That's according to Dan Scheinman, senior vice president of Cisco...

Tags: myspace, facebook, cisco

[03 May 2007]

Stories of the month - April 2007

News Is Skype secure enough for businesses? April is the cruellest month - and it's certainly been less than kind to CrackBerry addicts in North America who were forced to go cold turkey as an outage took their beloved devices offline for several hours.

Tags: second life, dell, blackberry, stories of the month

[30 Apr 2007]

Chat worm warning for Skype users

News A new instant-messaging pest that spreads using the chat feature in Skype has surfaced, according to a warning by security company F-Secure. A targeted Skype user will receive a chat message with text and a web link that looks like it goes to a...

Tags: worm, skype

[17 Apr 2007]

Next-generation Skype Trojan hits web

News Miscreants have again adapted the Warezov Trojan horse to target Skype users, Websense Security Labs warned on Thursday. A targeted Skype user will receive a chat message with the text "Check up this" and a link to a malicious executable called...

Tags: warezov, trojan, malware, instant messaging

[26 Mar 2007]

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