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Skype co-founder wants to give you free mobile broadband

Niklas Zennstrom changed the telephone industry when he co-founded VoIP juggernaut, Skype. Now he's preparing to attack the industry again with the introduction of free mobile broadband from FreedomPop. FreedomPop today announced that [...]

Posted On : Feb, 16 2012 | Comments : 0

Skype ‘Impatient’ With Mobile Operators Pushes for U.K. Acce...

Microsoft Corp.’s Skype Technologies SA unit will step up negotiations with British mobile-phone operators that keep Internet-based calls off their networks after the country’s regulator indicated it may intervene. Ofcom sa [...]

Posted On : Nov, 28 2011 | Comments : 0

Vonage to Offer Calling on All Mobile Phones, Challenging Sk...

Vonage Holdings Corp. (VG), the biggest U.S. provider of telephone service over the Internet, said it will let users of its home plans make calls with a second device such as a mobile phone. The new feature, called Extensions, represents [...]

Posted On : Jul, 27 2011 | Comments : 0

Skype Mobile withdrawn on Verizon 3G Wireless tablets: will ...

Late this afternoon, while preparing an in-depth article on the new Motorola Xoom tablet and its utility as a travel tool, I was re-confirming my earlier findings with regard to the use of Skype and other communications applications on t [...]

Posted On : Mar, 02 2011 | Comments : 0

Skype Offers Low-Bandwidth Mobile Version

On Monday, Skype announced a low-bandwidth version of its service, designed to be more appealing to carriers in parts of the world where 3G service isn't available. Skype's Mobile Partner Program is characterized as a " [...]

Posted On : Feb, 15 2011 | Comments : 0

Skype Announces Mobile Partner Program for Operators

Skype today announced a Mobile Partner Program for operators in markets with low 3G broadband penetration. The program aims to bring the Skype experience to a broad range of mobile users and will enable carriers to differentiate their of [...]

Posted On : Feb, 14 2011 | Comments : 0

Skype Does Better With Group Calls Than Mobile (Video)

Making audio and video calls between computers over Skype is now so common that the company's name has become a verb. People ask others to "Skype me" or say they are "Skyping." But the Luxembourg-based se [...]

Posted On : Jan, 13 2011 | Comments : 0

Kroes: leave your mobile provider if they block Skype

Mobile phone users whose operators block Skype should switch provider, European commissioner Neelie Kroes has suggested. Kroes was speaking at a European Commission and European Parliament summit on the issue of net neutrality on Thursda [...]

Posted On : Nov, 13 2010 | Comments : 0

Skype slams mobile operators for being greedy

Skype's European director of government and regulatory affairs Jean-Jacques Sahel has hit out at mobile operators for jeopardising net neutrality through greed. that they should be allowed to charge fees to companies such as Skype wh [...]

Posted On : Apr, 23 2010 | Comments : 0

Google faces competition from Apple in Mobile advertising

Google and Apple are two American technology giants locked in battle for the pie in mobile advertising space. Google has been a dominating firm in the advertising space. Apple is now aiming at becoming the leader in mobile advertisi [...]

Posted On : Apr, 10 2010 | Comments : 0

Skype Mobile for Verizon Demo

Verizon and Skype have officially confirmed that a version of Skype mobile that supports 3G will be available for a selected number of Verizon phones. I met with the Skype Mobile team during an event today and Dan Chastney, the product m [...]

Posted On : Apr, 02 2010 | Comments : 0

Is Skype Mobile the Exception or the Rule?

Verizon Wireless and Skype provided a model for the VoIP provider to meet the wireless operator, but the model is probably not how must carriers will meet. Next week we are running a webinar about Voice over LTE [VoLTE] which is an inter [...]

Posted On : Mar, 11 2010 | Comments : 0

Skype disappears from Windows Mobile

Gone from the website is Skype for Windows and also Skype Lite for mobile phones which support Java, including smartphones based on Android. Sadly you can no longer download these applications from the official site, however, those that [...]

Posted On : Mar, 01 2010 | Comments : 0

Skype Yanks Windows Mobile App From Site

For some unknown reason, Skype is no longer making Skype and Skype Lite available to the Windows Mobile platform. Skype's support page says, "We felt that Skype Lite and Skype for Windows Mobile were not offering the best possib [...]