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New Skype CEO for Skype by EBay : Josh Silverman

EBay appoints new Skype chief exec
VNUNet.com, UK - Feb 27, 2008
EBay has appointed Josh Silverman as the new chief executive of Skype, replacing Michael van Swaaij who was appointed interim boss in October 2007. ...
Skype gets new chief Telecoms.com (subscription)
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eBay retailer new Skype chief
FierceVoIP, DC - 17 hours ago
eBay has stayed in-house, selecting Shopper.com chief Josh Silverman as new CEO of Skype. Silverman's appointment comes after a six month search

Google "Josh Silverman" and New Skype CEO. Some images here.

You can also find relevant information about the new CEO of Skype on www.linkedin.com. Here an excerpt :  "                             View Profile CEO, Shopping.com Location: San Francisco Bay Area.Current: CEO at Shopping.com (an eBay company). Past: eBay, Inc.; eBay, Inc.; Evite, Inc.; ADAC Laboratories; Booz*Allen... see more"

My take ... I can only look forward to what will happen to historical blogs such as skype-watch.com, skype-gadgets.com, skypejournal.com and the likes. Will it be the big clean-up via ICANN procedures or will they allow these freewheeler blogs to exist and have a voice of their own ? More to come for sure...

Skype HQ Video.

Skype HQ Video and 4 months on what has changed ?.
ZDNet UK, UK - Feb 27, 2008
Well it will soon be a month since I wrote my last Blog about Skype’s HQ Video and almost 3 monthe since Skype shouted to the world about how we can now

money stolen from skype account ?

Skype Customer claims to of had money  ZDNet UK, UK - 19 hours ago
A Skype user has claimed to of had money stolen from his account and Skype seem to be doing very little about it.

No comment. Law of murphy I guess.

Headless Chicken that runs around for four years. It's real.

Apperently a part from the brain remained intact after the head got chopped off, so the body could keep walking and maintain it's basic function, while being fed with tube... Reminds me of something.  You can run, without knowing where you are going... Video right here :

Skype Spam is getting worse

Skype Spam is getting worse
DaniWeb, VA - Feb 20, 2008
How long before Skype Ltd. ends up as an item for bid on eBay? Ever since its acquisition by the Internet auction site, Skype has  been a rudderless boat ...

100 billion Skype-to-Skype minutes used

by Skype’s 276 million users
Product Reviews, UK - Feb 22, 2008
I’m not sure what figure is more amazing, the fact that Skype has 276 million users worldwide or that they have clocked up 100 billion Skype-to-Skype ...
Skype hits major milestone Pocket-lint.co.uk
Skype hits 100bn minutes Web User
Skype Hits 100 Billion Free Minutes Digital-Lifestyles.Info

Skype call trend lines are changing: here’s what this means

Hunch : Google buys Skype from E-bay ?

http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail3305.html

and this is were the I-phones are going : http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/02/18/technology/iphone.php

The secret unknown Skype telephone number.

On the matter of the Skype telephone number somebody told me "Nobody with 100.000.000 customers is going to put their phone number up for free-for-all. That is what call centers were created for (and outsourced to Bangladesh).  Imagine if only 1 out of thousand people have a problem, they would have 100.000 incoming phone calls. If you were Skype, how would you handle it?  Me : "what is the skype call center then in your logic ?" There is no Skype call center that doesn't give out their phone number"

EOF (end of file).

Maybe the number is in the London Telephone directory such or in  http://www.yell.com. But I  could not really find it. I did get this :

At least their address is known : 2 Stephen Street, 3rd floor, W1T 1AN London, UK.

Good location / company profile here too : Skype | CrunchBase Company Profile

Of course since nobody wanted to give me the phone number in a courtious way, I had to go look it up via google and we got this via google :  Skype Luxembourg Holdings S.A.R.L.
7, Val Ste. Croix, L-1371 - Luxembourg

eBay Inc. - 2145 Hamilton Avenue -  San Jose, California 95125 - Attention: General Counsel - Fax: +1 (408) 376-7514

Skype has no phone and does not pickup it's phones.

Yesterday a big company asked me for some advice on purchasing some sony/psp with skype on it for them employees and they wanted to call the Skype company but this seems not to be possible. Is this a fact ? I wondered ... So I found this on the forum of Skype and indeed they VoIP telephony

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QUOTE(mega4ce @ Fri Jan 4 2008, 23:00) * What is the contact number to contact Skype Customer Support? I ported a number out and they would not release it. There is no telephone number, the only method is to file a support request here: http://support.skype.com/?_a=tickets&_m=submit

If you do not receive a response in 4 business days or receive a response that does not resolve your issue(s) moderators can help push you issue there."

This is rediculous. Somebody close to Skype even gave me the blunt answer "No phone, no business", as if they have fun in teasing me. It's insulting.

I wonder how such type of company can do business by not picking up their phone. It's rediculous.

 

I contacted at least 7 skype employees who refused to give the phonenumber hiding behind the fact, that there is no phone.

Yet again : ridiculous. Let's not forget I wanted to bring something interesting. I'll go somewhere else.

I wonder if it is even legal to refuse to communicate your phonenumber as a company (apart from calling it stupid not to handle requests in a professional manner)...

Skype rings it's 100.000.000.000 (100 billion) minute.

Skype hype to soar as 100 billion minute milestone reached
iTWire, Australia - 6 hours ago
by Alex Zaharov-Reutt  Skype, the p2p Internet phone company that has put the fear of God into just about telecommunication company on Planet Earth,

PSP slim Skype works with go!cam

Sony does not bother about blogs providing them with a proper sample, not even if you demonstrate a lot outside of the blogs. Some goes for the guys of 3skypephone who promised a sampe but never delivered. I hope their distribution network perform better than their promises... Anyways. Here is a good demo video of the Sony / PSP / Skype thing. But honestly what I am looking for is the Skype version for the ps3.

And here something about the firmware 3.99 and all that stuff... ...

Skype on Sony PSP (2000 only)...

Looks cool. But a pitty the psp is not sim-card / celphone enabed. I wonder on how many hotspot skype is throtled or blocked and what happens if you have hotspots that require some special authentication first.... I remember that with my Skype Belkin Wifi Phone it virtually NEVER worked on most hotspots since those require a webbrowser login.... and the Skype Wifi phone did not have such login-features. Very dumb...

Here another (belgian) demo in dutch : And here a professional demo of the "social communications tool" :

Skype Real onilne users.

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PhotoSync Beta2 for Windows Home Server is Available!

PhotoSync Beta2 for Windows Home Server is Available!

they have now opened the beta to anyone who would like to try WHS

Download PhotoSync for WHS Here

TechRepublic also has a nice install guide for PhotoSync here (

seesmic

seesmic | CrunchBase Company Profile

Well known European entrepreneur and LeWeb conference organiser, Loic Le  Meur, is the founder of seesmic, a video service mimicking and aggregating...
www.crunchbase.com/company/seesmic

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Skype 2.7 for Mac brings Leopard stability

Final release of Skype 2.7 for Mac brings Leopard stability
Ars Technica, MA - 21 hours ago

Skype for Linux 2.0.0.43 beta has 68 bugfixes

Newly downloadable Skype for Linux 2.0.0.43 beta has 68 bugfixes
ZDNet - Feb 14, 2008

Seesmic event by Niklas Zennstrom.

Skype Founder Shakes Money Tree For Seesmic
InternetNews.com - Feb 14, 2008
Heading the list is the investment group Atomico co-founded by Skype creator Niklas  Zennstrom. Other notable names on the investor list include: Ron Conway ...
Seesmic Announces $6 Million Series A Round TechCrunch
Seesmic raises $6 million in funding ZDNet
Seesmic Raises $6 Million to Power the World's Video Conversations PR Newswire (press release)
Digital Media Wire
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The Magic Phoneplug Skype could/should have made but never will.

http://www.magicjack.com/site/index-PCM.html  On the matter of hardware I see nothing innovative anymore. No wonder you won't find any interesting reviews here.

The only thing that could surprise me is that a phone like Ipevo would put video inside the phone. It does not have to be a big screen, just small video will do.

The slowest moving blog in the universe.

If this blog was frozen in space and time, it would probably look like this :

I guess if I would write 6 times that this blog - among all the slowest moving blogs in the universe - is the slowest moving blog in the universe, that it would probably become the slowest moving blog in the universe. So it just boils down to repeating that it is really the slowest moving blog in the universe and then it will become the slowest moving blog in the universe. First it will become the slowest moving blog in the universe on google (internet reality) and then when it really has been quoted as the slowest moving blog in the universe, then it will be defined as such by the readers of the slowest moving blog in the universe. So let's find out if after one week this blog has really become the c of the slowest moving blogs.

Comcast ,the Internet Traffic Cop classify Joost and the likes of Skype as the bittorrent of the telecom and broadcast industry.

" Comcast said yesterday that it purposely slows down some traffic on its network, including some music and movie downloads, an admission that sparked more controversy in the debate over how much control network operators should have over the Internet. " source.

Skype, Joost and related are probably classified as bittorrents. This is the end of Joost, Youtube, and any video streaming service that is not originating from Comcast video library.

A wide (not so) evil grin comes on my face when I think about the people of the skype p2p pbx boxes (as listed here and there on this blog) who think that they are providing a service to x,y,z company on the matter of VoIP.... On what service level would that be based then.... What I mean is that you can buy a box from them, then buy a computer somewhere else and then install a skype "multiplexer" on that pc. But the real question is what the provider will do if they see mega-traffic floating over an internet-line. They will want to detect it and manage it. Hence the VoIP- provider Skype and it's hardware allies are at the grace of the bandwidth-controller. No reseller can give any guarantee it is going to work, but it probably will.

Sony (SNE) is to delay the Japanese launch of Skype on PSP due to technical problems.

Sony (SNE) is to delay the Japanese launch of Skype on PSP due to technical problems. The company announced in January that it would start offering Skype.Japanese Tech Stock Weekly Summary

Lee interviewed Jonathan Christensen, Skype's General Manager for Video and Audio

As picked up on SJ : comments eComm2008's Lee Dryburgh made on a mailing list about interviewing Skype's Jonathan Christensen. .... Recently Lee interviewed Jonathan Christensen, Skype's General Manager for Video and Audio, as one of a series of interviews with several of the eComm2008 speakers, and covered several issues. Continue reading "Jonathan Christensen: Leadoff Keynote Speaker at eComm 2008" »

dual mode portable telephony kit that comes built-in with the Skype

"Wireless Skype Without The Fuss"
Smart House, Australia - Feb 10, 2008
Linksys aims to remove the ‘computer’ in the VoIP equation by introducing the CIT400, a dual mode portable telephony kit that comes built-in with the Skype


no sample seen or heard of, no report.

reenplum says it's signed up over 40 new customers in the 18 months including Video Egg and Skype

Greenplum Sees BI As Sweet Market
InternetNews.com - 18 hours ago
Greenplum says it's signed up over 40 new customers in the 18 months including Video Egg and Skype. Greenplum says VideoEgg is using the application to ...
Greenplum delivers fast petabyte-scale data loading ZDNet
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Digital River Expands E-Commerce Agreement with Skype

Digital River Expands E-Commerce Agreement with Skype
PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung), Austria - Feb 11, 2008
As part of the agreement, Digital River is now hosting all of Skype's e-commerce operations and globally supporting the newly designed online Skype Shop. ...

Digital River Expands E-commerce Agreement With Skype - Quick Facts
Trading Markets (press release), CA - Feb 11, 2008
Under the terms of the agreement, Digital River will be hosting all of Skype's e-commerce operations and would be globally supporting the newly designed ...DRIV


I wonder if they would allow all the skype this and that 3d party dot com domain to link to their online supermarket....

ZiPCOM’s Products won Skype Certification

ZiPCOM’s Products won Skype Certification
數位之牆(新聞發佈), Taiwan - 3 hours ago
ZiPCOM Skype series products have won Skype Certification. The revolutionary Skype series products from ZiPCOM integrate Skype service into enterprises’ PBX ...

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Great, now let's hope they got their pricing right :) because :

VoSKY Expands Distribution Partners in Europe
openPR (press release), Germany - 2 hours ago
(openPR) - VoSKY, the market leader in delivering Skype for business solutions, has announced two new distributors in Europe to support its growth plans

OnState Unified Messaging for Skype debuts today

OnState Unified Messaging for Skype debuts today
ZDNet - 4 hours ago
This is a single-platform, subscription-based Skype messaging  solution that integrates email; voicemail; business chat; and customer contact messaging and ...
OnState Announces Mash-Up with Zimbra and Skype Business Wire (press release)
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first working model of 3 Skype phone.

Computer cellular expert Skype, a division of eBay(EBAY - Cramer's Take - Stockpickr) was showing its first Skype phone.  I got to see a real working model in action. It was a GSM model that contains new software allowing you to make Skype calls over regular cell phone networks (not over Wi-Fi or via computers).

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