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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...
[12 May 2008]
whitepaper Skype is a peer-to-peer VoIP client developed by KaZaa. Skype claims that it can work almost seamlessly across NATs and firewalls and has better voice quality than the MSN and Yahoo IM applications. Skype also supports instant messaging and...
[11 May 2008]
Comment For years, Skype and other VoIP services have been providing an internet alternative to traditional phone service. Now it's the turn of telecoms, argues Howard Greenfield. The internet is set to get louder with the talkification of the web.
[01 May 2008]
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...
[30 Apr 2008]
whitepaper However, complicating matters is the fierce competition among various players that range from ILECs and VNOs to those "Wild cards," such as Skype and GoogleTalk that have the potential to be highly disruptive forces in the market.
[10 Apr 2008]
Photo However VoIP application Skype proved more of a challenge. After several hours of browsing, checking email, testing Skype and accessing the VPN, it's time to leave the train and take in the sights of Basel, Switzerland.
[28 Mar 2008]
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...
[20 Mar 2008]
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...
[03 Mar 2008]
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...
[01 Feb 2008]
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
[28 Jan 2008]
Comment It's all very well to use an infrastructure comprising Skype and Google Mail combined with Facebook when your company consists of a handful of workers interacting online. But can a move into corporate social networking and web 2.0 really pay off...
[24 Jan 2008]
whitepaper This paper investigates how Skype behaves in the presence of time-varying available bandwidth in order to discover if some sort of congestion control mechanism is implemented at the application layer to match the network available bandwidth and...
[20 Dec 2007]
whitepaper Some concerns have been raised about whether the increase of UDP traffic due to Skype type of applications will throttle down regular TCP users. This concern comes from the fact that UDP connections are unresponsive to congestion, i.e.
[19 Dec 2007]
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...
[12 Dec 2007]
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.
[10 Dec 2007]
Comment Media within the enterprise has come of age after a series of landmark multi-billion dollar acquisitions including Google buying YouTube for $1.65bn, eBay acquiring Skype for $2.6bn and News Corp's $580m purchase of MySpace.
[29 Nov 2007]
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...
[29 Nov 2007]
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'.
[22 Nov 2007]
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...
[21 Nov 2007]
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...
[19 Nov 2007]
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