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Calliflower: Delivering A Complete Conference Call Participant Experience

By on June 23, 2008

CalliFlower: iotum rebrands its Free Conference Call service with a focus on a rich user experience not only for conference call moderators but also for participants. Value-add in the Web 2.0 world comes primarily through the user interface. There’s a plethora of great technology innovation happening out there. But it’s becoming acknowledged that ease of [...]

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Will “Free” Remain a Key Feature of VoIP Services?

By on June 8, 2008

A little sanity moving into the blogosphere? Local blogging colleague Mark Evans1, in a post earlier today, “The Wonderful World of Web 2.0 Whining”, comments on the demands for seven nines reliability and unlimited support from “free” services: It’s bad enough no one wants to pay for anything, but the expectations placed on free services [...]

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Finally — Skype CallerID for North Americans

Finally — Skype CallerID for North Americans

By on June 6, 2008

For some time now, Skype users in Europe and other countries could send their SkypeIn number as a CallerID (Caller Line Identification – CLI) for SkypeOut calls. Yet if a North American made a SkypeOut call, usually the recipient of the call would see a non-identifying “0000123456″ or something similar. This week Skype has modified [...]

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Unlimited Calling Plans – Introductory Discount Ends this Weekend.

Unlimited Calling Plans – Introductory Discount Ends this Weekend.

By on May 29, 2008

Back in April we talked about Skype’s new Unlimited Calling Plans. Just a heads-up that Skype’s introductory offer expires this weekend (June 1). They offer 3 months for the price of two or twelve months for the price of eight. For a review here are the basics: What’s Free (world wide): Skype-to-Skype voice and video [...]

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iskoot

By on February 12, 2008

iSkoot provides the ability to call, and/or chat with, your Skype or SkypeOut contacts from a mobile smart phone, turning international calls into “local” calls. While chat sessions are carried out on the device, voice calls are initiated from the device but carried over the wireless network’s robust voice channel, usually at the cost of [...]

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A SIP/Skype Gateway Is NOT In The Forecast

By on February 1, 2008

Guest Post: Hudson Barton is a communicatons consultant whose Borderless Communicator blog not only talks about Skype and related IP communications activity but also attempts to track Skype’s “real usage”. According to his analysis, Skype has just cracked the 30 million real or” currenlty active” user number (based on tracking Users Online vs time-of-day). What [...]

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Call Transfer API — More Details Announced But Still Coming

By on April 24, 2007

Perhaps the most demanded feature at last year’s Skype Developer Conference was Call Transfer API’s. We have seen some activity for Skype to Skype calls recently; however, information on activity related to calls originating or terminating via SkypeIn or SkypeOut (which require significantly more infrastructure) has been negligible. Today Skype’s April Developer newsletter issued a [...]

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Skype Goes Truly Mobile….

By on November 16, 2006

.. in the UK at least. Today, as one partner participating in the 3 X-Series service announcement by Hutchison Whampoa’s 3 Group, Skype has announced its first truly mobile offering where Skype users can make “free” Skype-to-Skype calls on a mobile phone. Starting December 1, 3 Group will launch a new flat fee mobile broadband [...]

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