Skype announced plans to acquire Qik, which provides mobile video software and services, at the Consumer Electronics Show. – LAS
VEGAS Faced with the specter of rising competition
from Google and smaller VOIP services, Skype announced Jan. 6 that it had
entered into a definitive agreement to purchase Qik, which provides mobile video
software and services. Online reports indicate that Skype paid $100 million for
the s…
As in most any year in the modern age, 2010 saw its share of problems due to programming errors, bugs and other shortcomings. A timing error with the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) systems, a Skype crash, problems with Chase online banking, faulty automobile systems at Toyota and privacy breaches were among the years big-name software problems that might have been avoided at the programming level. For instance, the Skype outage, which affected a large number of Skype’s 560 million users, resulted from a bug in the Windows version of the software. In a blog post, Lars Rabbe, CIO at Skype, said the company needed to enhance its capability for testing for and detecting bugs. "While our Windows v5 software release was subject to extensive internal testing and months of Beta testing with hundreds of thousands of users, we will be reviewing our testing processes to determine better ways of detecting and avoiding bugs which could affect the system," Rabbe said in his post. Software application defects are inevitable, but developers have a better chance of catching them if they use enhanced debugging and code analysis platforms and employ Agile methods. In addition, companies such as Replay Solutions, Coverity, Corensic and others offer software to help developers detect and resolve programming issues during the development lifecycle. – …
Skype has just launched an updated app that enables video calling on Apple devices, including the iPhone 4 and 3GS, the iPad and fourth-gen iPod touch. – Skype for iPhone just got a little better, thanks to
the addition of video capabilities.
Thats right, catching up to the competition were looking at you, Fring
Skype users on the iPad, iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPod touch fourth
generation, or with iOS 4.0 or higher, can make and receive f…
Skype has updated its iPhone app to support video calls made over WiFi and 3G networks. The new app with the video call feature can be downloaded right now on the App Store. An insider is claiming that the iPhone 4 for Verizon will land by February 14. This comes after rumors have been floating [...]
A bug in the Windows version of the Skype client caused the software to crash after servers got overloaded, resulting in a two-day outage. – The widespread outage that crippled Skype on Dec. 22 appears
to have been aggravated by a bug in the Windows version of the VOIP client,
said Lars Rabbe, the companys CIO, on Dec. 29.
A quot;confluence of events, quot; which included overloaded servers,
a bug in the Windows client and a shortag…
Are Skype and Apple poised to enable video calling on the iPhone 4, 3GS, iPad and iPod? – Is Skype video calling for the Apple iPhone 4 and iPad
coming?
Engadget
is reporting that early on Dec. 24, there was a help document on the Skype site
detailing how to place video calls using Skype for iPhone.
quot;Youll just have to trust us, it was there! We swear!, quot; wrote the tech s…
DigiTimes reports according to sources in Taiwan, Apple is upping the shipment estimates for Q1 2011 for the iPhone. The rumor includes 5-6 million CDMA iPhones to ship that quarter. Hackulous is a hacker store that offers pirated apps for Jailbroken iPhone users. The developers of the community have announced a new way to upload [...]
Skype’s CEO issued a statement offering refunds for customers affected by the company’s massive service outage. – Facing the wrath of its customer base following a massive service
outage earlier this week, voice over IP provider
Skype said it would issue refunds to those unable to make calls during
the 30-hour shutdown. Skype CEO Tony Bates issued a statement on the
companys blog, apologizing for the servic…
Updated: Skype’S VOIP service is still out for more than one-third of its expected users more than 24 hours after a massive failure to the service’s supernodes struck Dec. 22. – Skype Dec. 23 said its service remains out for some 40 percent of
its users a full day after a massive failure of its peer-to-peer
computer system caused the VOIP service to deny or drop calls.
Nearly 24 hours after several computers in its P2P network went offline, Skype appears to be restoring …
Millions of Skype users around the world were left incommunicado Wednesday when the popular internet telephony system was disrupted by a massive glitch. Skype issued an apology for the outage, which left millions of people unable to log on to the service or connect to any of their contacts. Skype said that the problem appeared [...]
Skype went down for several hours Dec. 22, the result of server crashes linked by peer-to-peer technology. Millions of VOIP users were affected by this worst outage since 2007. –
Skype suffered a serious server outage Dec. 22 that left swaths of its 560
million or so worldwide users without PC-calling capabilities for most of the
day.
Skype the VOIP service that many use to make free or low-cost long-distance
calls from their PCs and phones began going down for users a…
Skype software application is used to make free PC to PC skype calls on the internet. You can also use Skype software app for making telephone calls around the world in different countries. You may want to check version of Skype software already installed on the computer and also update it, if using older version [...]
Skype 5.0 for Windows delivers decent multiparty video calling that remains lacking on the data collaboration side of things, along with new Facebook integration, and simpler call quality troubleshooting tools. – Skype 5.0 for Windows provides new ways to help users
connect, both within the confines of Skypes network and to external contacts.
While a few bugs and limitations detract from the overall experience, Skype 5.0
nonetheless delivers an attractive mix of new features, particularly for
consumers.
…
Skype 5 for Windows adds new social networking features through an integration with Facebook that allows users of both services to view Facebook feeds, wall posts, and contact details within Skype. Users can also update their Facebook status message directly from Skype, and automatically update the Skype mood field at the same time. Skype sucks in Facebook contact phone numbers, making it simple to call Facebook contacts from Skype without dialing. Skype 5 also includes a 28-day trial of the Skype multi-party video calling service, allowing multiple users to join the same video chat – provided everyone is upgraded to the latest software. Skype 5 also adds new troubleshooting tools, helping users suss out microphone, webcam or network quality issues. Skype will also automatically redial if an in-progress call is dropped. For the full review of Skype 5.0, check out Skype 5.0 for Windows. To share your own thoughts on the new Skype, head over to http://labs.eweek.com. – Â …
Skype on Oct. 14 integrated Facebook’s News Feed and Phonebook into its VOIP calling platform, allowing users to post status updates and make free calls to Facebook users. – Skype on Oct. 14 confirmed the weeks-old rumor of a Facebook integration with the beta launch of Skype 5.0 for Windows.
Skype is infusing Facebooks News Feed and Phonebook into its voice over IP
calling platform.
By signing in through Facebook Connect, users can access a new Facebook tab.
Fro…
Roughly 20 percent of online U.S. adults have conducted video calls via the Web or their cell phones, according to Pew. Apple FaceTime, Skype and Google Chat will fuel the rise. – Some 19 percent of 3,001 American adults surveyed said they have
participated in a video call online from their computer or their
cellphones, according to new data from Pew Research Center’s Internet amp; American Project.
Users joined video calls, chats or teleconferences from the Web via
th…
Skype made its VOIP calling capabilities available to HTC and Motorola smartphones running Google’s Android operating system version 2.1 and above. – Skype Oct. 5 made its voice over IP calling capabilities
available to HTC and Motorola smartphones running Google’s Android platform version 2.1 and later.
Users with Skype accounts who own such handsets as the
Motorola Droid, HTC Droid Incredible and HTC Evo 4G can now make free Skype-to-Skype
…
Cisco Systems executive Tony Bates will be the new CEO of Skype, the latest shift in the rapidly changing UC field. Bates is the latest executive to leave Cisco for a competitor. – Cisco Systems is losing another executive to a competitor, with Tony Bates
leaving to become CEO of video conferencing and
VOIP vendor Skype.
Skype announced Oct. 4 that Bates, who most recently was senior
vice president and general manager of Cisco’s Enterprise,
Commercial and Small Business D…
Analysts largely agree that Facebook would do well to acquired VOIP giant Skype, allowing the social network users to leverage calling capabilities and helping Facebook battle Google. – Just hours after news surfaced that Facebook and Skype
could be entering into a VOIP partnership, industry watchers seized on the
potential deal as flirtation that should evolve into an acquisition.
AllThingsDigital
reported Sept. 29 that Facebook and Skype are mulling an integration that would
…
