Skype worth dropped…
eBay, the owners of Skype, have claimed that the VoIP service is worth a whopping $2 billion…that’s great for Skype of course, being worth billions - but when you think eBay paid $2.6 billion for the VoIP provider only 4 years ago then the whole deal doesn’t look so good for eBay after [...]

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Let’s fight…
There’s a war going on – on one side you have the VoIP giants Skype and on the other side you have the Goliath telecoms providers. The battleground is the mighty iPhone…but what is going on? It’s all a bit petty when you get into it.
The telecoms providers are fighting to disallow [...]

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We would all like to think that VoIP telecommunications is going to take over as the future of telephones. However, a small business in Australia isn’t too keen on the service, as they have just received a bill for $120,000 after hackers cracked into their service and somehow managed to make 11,000 international calls [...]

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Your iPhone is about to get a bit more capable as Truphone has launched a client that supports Skype. The client, developed for both the iPhone and the iPod Touch allows both Skype VoIP and messaging allowing the user to save a few pennies
“The introduction of Skype calling and instant messaging represents yet another [...]

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Skype has announced that they will be releasing an updated Mac version of its software, kitted out with a whole load of extra new features. Version 2.8 for the Mac will give the user the opportunity to have a go at doing things never before done when combining a Mac and Skype, such as [...]

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VoIP providers like Skype are being ignored like the plague by UK businesses as a new report from VoIP specialists, Viatel, shows that over half of the businesses within the UK are turning away from the internet communication possibilities simply because the quality of the connections are so poor.

However, interestingly, a huge 95 per cent [...]

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Skype seems keen to hand out jobs recently as they have just created two new roles. Skype, the ever-popular VoIP client, has created Chief Officers for both Technology and Strategy, the positions being filled by Daniel Berg and Christopher S. Dean respectively. Each Officer will still be reporting to Josh Silverman, mind you, [...]

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Telecommunications regulator Ofcom has said that providers of internet telephony must now allow emergency 999 calls over their networks and release caller location information where technically feasible, or face the risk of enforcement action.

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While the older landline companies such as AT&T in the US have for some time been forced to open up their landline networks to competitors, internet phone operator Skype had made an official request to the regulators to see if open access to all wireless networks was on the agenda. They argued that under [...]

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