Skype Becomes The Pipe’s Best Friend

If IP service providers and carriers ever wanted a friend to drive more content through their dumb pipe they may have found it in Skype. In what should start of a feeding frenzy between bandwidth carriers wanting to have more of the traffic that Skype will generate, today’s announcement about a Voice and Content Marketplace … Read more

Is eBay Buying Skype

Oh the possibilities dancing through my head as I read that giant eBay may be buying Skype, something their representatives are not commenting on. eBay is one very smart company. Their community based business, even though the participants do not think of itself always that way is continually growing. Culturally the two companies would seem … Read more

Skype And CRM

VoIP Magazine has a thought provoking commentary about Skype and CRM. I realize that Skype is one to one for now, but if more “service” companies adopted Skype it would sure save a lot of money in phone calls. I also wonder when someone will invent a Skype to Nextel’s DirectConnect service.

Skype: Forward

I was playing with the Windows PC laptop over the weekend and downloaded the Skype Beta 1.40 which includes Skype Forward capabilities. I programmed it to call my CallVantage number which has locate me programmed to call both my home office and cell phones. The long and the short of it is now when I’m … Read more

Vonage @ 1 Million

Holy Cow-Batman–Today Vonage said they have one million lines in service. Given how many Time Warner Cable now has, I’d say the Jersey boys are feeling the heat from the Gotham sleeping giant..

Level3 and 8×8 Expand Relationship

Level3 has been conducting consumer and business research to work with their partners (i.e. 8×8, AOL and others) in growing their customer bases. This announcement today is the first step in seeing that research turn into some sort of business strategy. Basically Level3 will start to help identify and open vertical sales channels so their … Read more

Skype Bundle Down Under

For less than $12 dollars Australian you can buy Skype software, Skype out minutes and a headset. Each Skype pack contains: * Voucher for 30 minutes of SkypeOut calling at current Global SkypeOut rate. * Earbud with speaker and microphone to connect to the speaker/microphone sockets on a PC or laptop * Mini-CD with Skype … Read more