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Yea, let's let Skype live, shall we?

My recent Should Skype and Vonage Adapt or Die? post was a commentary on a death wish expressed to these providers by Network World columnist Mark Gibbs. I've been expecting a forthright defense of Skype from the independent but still Skype-enthusiast Skype Journal team....

Tags: Skype Technologies S.A., Phil Wolff, Corporate Communications, Telecommunications, Marketing, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2007-10-15

Could THIS be the REAL reason eBay-Skype hasn't jelled?

Could it be that eBay bidders are too hyper, too "in the moment" to even think about using Skype to call the seller? Well, that's what I am starting to think. I started to lean in this direction after...

Tags: Skype Technologies S.A., eBay Inc., Phil Wolff, Telecom & Utilities, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2007-10-09

19 things Skype voice mail doesn't do - but oughta

Today in Skype Journal, poster Phil Wolff posts 19 things he wishes Skype voice mail did but it doesn't .. yet.My favorites:4. "Playback effects, like time compression, skip ahead/back, repeat last 7 seconds. Pause button, please."And, this is a direct quote:7. "Different messages for named users. I want my lovey...

Tags: Skype Technologies S.A., Skype Voice mail, Phil Wolff

Blog posts 2005-04-20

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A-w-w-w dept: Here's a baby talking with his friend over Skype

Friend Phil Wolff of Skype Journal posts this link to Belgian lukaszcom's YouTube video of a baby named Bruno talking to his friend over Skype. We don't actually see the Skype UI, but we are told that Skype is running on the notebook...

Tags: Skype Technologies S.A., Corporate Communications, Keyboards, Marketing, Hardware, Peripherals, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2008-02-12

How this nearly barenaked lady has been brought to you courtesy of a Skype SPIM-mer

Skype Journal's Phil Wolff uses this screencap from a Skype SPIM Spam Over Instant Messaging session to explain how Skype SPIM-ers initiate these contacts. Phil mentions 10 ways this is done. Perhaps number 6 is the most sneakingly cunning: ...

Tags: Skype Technologies S.A., Skype Journal, Tools & Techniques, Management, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2008-02-07

Future proofing digital assets

The passing of fellow ZDNet blogger Marc Orchant caused Dave Winer to pose the question: what happens to your Web presence and by extension all your digital assets when you are no longer here? Like Dave, I have a number of servers that will stop running without...

Tags: Asset, Phil, Asset Management, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Phil Windley

Blog posts 2007-12-12

Where in tech might "The Hammer" strike next?

Responding to my blog post entitled 75 year-old woman smashes up Comcast office with hammer," Skype Journal's Phil Wolff jests: This post should make Skype glad they don't have field offices. Well, Skype doesn't. But plenty of other tech companies do. These include many...

Tags: Hammer, Skype Technologies S.A., Office, Outsourcing, Product Marketing, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2007-10-22

Reliving Skype woes via a Flickr photostream

If you were one of the millions who has suffered through Skype's nearly two days of sign-in service interruptions,  I've got a place for you to go where you can review, in step-by-step fashion, the effect of this glitch on Skype worldwide.Blogger Phil Wolff of Skype Journal fame has taken...

Tags: Flickr, Skype Technologies S.A., Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2007-08-18

BlackBerry: two units shipped for every activation

BlackBerry: two units shipped for every activationcorrection: swap Jim Courtney for Phil WolffRIM is in the Toronto area, Jim's back yard. He's also an active blackberry user and a RIM stockholder.

Tags: activation, Research In Motion Ltd., RIM BlackBerry

Discussion threads 2007-07-19

BlackBerry: two units shipped for every activation

Phil Wolff of Skype Journal found himself at BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion's annual meeting this week in Waterloo, Ontario.Major takeaways:As first reported June 28, RIM's income is  76% devices, 16% service, 5% software, 3% other."And when I asked at the RIM meeting why they had shipped 2.4 million units...

Tags: Corporate Stuff

Blog posts 2007-07-18

Skype releases 3.5 beta: here are the new features and enhancements

Skype's 3.5 beta has just been released, and is available for download here.Raul, who is one of Skype's official bloggers, thinks the big enhancements over the last notable rev, are: feature: Auto redial feature: Call Transfer feature: Device Indicators feature: Edit chat messages feature: Message history loading granulated feature: Private Telephone Numbers feature: Send contacts inside...

Tags: News, Skype

Blog posts 2007-06-15

Twittering from Skype in four easy steps

On his PacificIT blog, Robert Sanzalone gets you started on Twittering from Skype.Here's what he writes: Add twitter4skype as a contact. Type the following as a chat message be sure to do a FULL return for each line:/accountyourtwitteraccountnameyourtwitteraccountpassword The system should return: twitter4skype Registration complete! The next time you write a chat message...

Tags: Skype

Blog posts 2007-06-06

HOW many downloads did Skype get yesterday?

Phil Wolff, whose Skype Journal is the authoritative and objective authority on all matters Skype, writes that Skype experienced 500 million downloads yesterday."Skype users downloaded the worlds leading VoIP program 500 million times today," he writes. Maybe half of my brain is still at that rainy/windswept Pacific Ocean beach...

Tags: General, Skype

Blog posts 2007-02-19

What about script-based call settings for eBay SkypeMe?

Last night at one of those Consumer Electronics Show par-tays, I found myself downing Fiji Waters and chattin with friend Phil Wolff. Phil runs Skype Journal.All of a sudden, the conversation turned to those "Skype Me" buttons that eBay sellers can place next to some of their listings. You know,...

Tags: General, Skype, CES 2007, eBay Inc., Skype Technologies S.A.

Blog posts 2007-01-11

Skype still knows the way to San Jose - State U, that is

Skype Journal's Phil Wolff posts that after lots of brouhaha, San Jose State University's Computing and Telecommunications department SJSU UCAT have said they will not ban Skype.Apparently, a Monday meeting between SJSU officials and Skype-owner eBay's governmental relations team did the trick.Although Phil was not in on...

Tags: Skype Technologies S.A.

Blog posts 2006-09-27

What Voice over IP means for Flash

Yesterday Om Malik broke a story about a team within Adobe working on adding VoIP support to Flash. I was actually at Adobe when this story broke more on that later this weekend but was unable to get any additionally information on the team. John Dowdell had some information...

Tags: Flash, Adobe Systems Inc.

Blog posts 2006-09-23

Skype: The iTunes killer?

Well maybe not an iTunes killer, but a formidably alluring alternative to legal distribution of digital music.Skype Journal's Phil Wolff suggests how this could be done. First, he suggests that Skype should open publishing to Skypers like iTunes did for podcasting. Phil thinks the logical step would then be...

Tags: Skype Technologies S.A.

Blog posts 2006-04-25

Is Skype inducing infringement? Five things they should do to prove they're not

Skype Journal blogger Phil Wolff thinks that in the light of yesterday's U.S. Supreme Court ruling that software makers are liable for copyright-infringement if they induce or promote such uses, Skype attorneys are probably really busy today.Phil thinks that Skype's lawyers are- or at least should - be checking the...

Tags: Skype Technologies S.A.

Blog posts 2005-06-28

Skype passes 10 billion minutes served: here's what's next

Skype passes 10 billion minutes served: here's what's nextSkype ???Agreed skype has a good User Interface. Another reason for skype's popularity in IP telephony is their use of iLBC codec which has a great packet-loss-concealment. But thats where the good stops. Skype is non-standard and is hampering the deserved growth...

Tags: Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), VOIP, SIP, Skype Technologies S.A., iLBC codec

Discussion threads 2005-06-20

Skype passes 10 billion minutes served: here's what's next

According to the independent, non-Skype affiliated Skype Journal, Skype passed the 10-billion-minutes-served mark on Sunday morning.As of yesterday morning around 10 a.m. EDT, the figure was 10,001,423,810.But that was yesterday. Right before I posted this, I refreshed the Skype page in my browser:10,032,822,260. So that's 30 million minutes or...

Tags: Skype Technologies S.A.

Blog posts 2005-06-20