Archive for June, 2011

Culture: Photos of Skype?s Swedish brewery office

Thursday, June 30th, 2011

Photos of Skype?s Stockholm office in an old brewery by the architect. via GigaOm, via Daily Icon. High Ikea, modest budget, open plan, balcony, brand-color accents, subtle we?re-in-the-audio-video-business iconography. 29,000 square feet (2700 square meters). Modern interior contrasted against classic exterior. Does the eye candy help people reach higher levels of personal productivity, [...]
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Skype for Android 2.0.0.45 adds video calling

Thursday, June 30th, 2011

Download Skype for Android 2.0 from the Android Market. Available for Skype users in all markets, all wireless operators. Its new one-to-one video calling features require a user-facing camera; if you have two cameras, you can use both and switch between cameras during a call. [Look-at-me! Look-at-that! Look-at-me!] Skype has yet to offer group [...]
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Skype For Android Gets Video Calling!

Thursday, June 30th, 2011

Skype For Android http://snapvoip.blogspot.com/
Skype just announced that it has updated the Skype for Android App, adding video calling. Looks like there is a limit to the handsets that the app supports, for now according to Skype. I want to install and test on my Asus EEE Pad and check;
Make free Skype-to-Skype video calls, and call [...]

Appstore Has More Than 100,000 iPad Apps Now!

Thursday, June 30th, 2011

100,000 iPad Apps http://snapvoip.blogspot.com/
Looks like Apple developers are going for the iPad exclusive apps. According to Macstories, Apple App store now has more than 100000 apps designated for iPad, the larger cousin of iPhone.
Since Apple iPad came into being in April 2010, (454 days ago,) Apple and it’s army of developers have managed to create [...]

Samsung Files A Complaint Against Apple With ITC.

Thursday, June 30th, 2011

Samsung vs Apple ITC http://snapvoip.blogspot.com/Yesterday Samsung has filed a complaint with ITC against Apple regarding some of its products, mostly covering mobile products. The complaint no. 337-2824 indicates following types of products:Letter to James R. Holbein, Secretary, USITC, requesting that the Commission conduct an investigation under section 337 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as…
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SIP Forum Releases SIPit Interoperability Test Results from SIPit 28 Held In in Huntsville, Alabama

Wednesday, June 29th, 2011

SIPit 28 SIP Interoperability http://snapvoip.blogspot.com/
SIP Forum has released the test results from the latest SIPit event SIPit 28, the SIP interoperability event, was hosted by Digium on April 11?15, 2011 and held at the Jackson Center in Huntsville, Alabama’s Research Park. SIPit is organized by the SIP Forum’s Test Event Working Group (TEWG) and [...]

Leaving early? You were warned. See slide 8

Tuesday, June 28th, 2011

Skype – Employee Presentation var docstoc_docid=”83058145″;var docstoc_title=”Skype – Employee Presentation”;var docstoc_urltitle=”Skype – Employee Presentation”; From the 2009 briefing to employees after the Skype Limited Partners (SLP) took over from eBay: "Good Leaver": someone who gets fired without "Cause" Gets the fair-market value of their currently vested option ?Bad Leaver?: someone who resigns, or [...]
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US House of Reps permits Skype, ooVoo for constituent visits a year later

Tuesday, June 28th, 2011

The U.S. House of Representatives (the lower half of the United States Congress) approved the use of Skype and ooVoo today.  Thousands of electeds and staff can now use video calling do the people?s business. The  Committee on Administration opened its public Wi-Fi networks to these services after a year of debate and discussion [...]
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Google Is Activating Half A Million Android Devices A Day Now!

Tuesday, June 28th, 2011

500000 Android Activations a Day! @arubin http://snapvoip.blogspot.com/
According to a Tweet by Andy Rubin, Google is now registering and activating 500,000 Android devices a day.
That is even higher than the numbers of Android Activations Google announced during the Google I/O.
The boost may have come from the slew of Android tablets from Asus (I just got my [...]

New Skype Beta uses IM Interop Code

Tuesday, June 28th, 2011

XMPP is the data communication protocol used by Google Talk, Yahoo! Messenger, Aol Instant Messenger, Microsoft Windows Live Messenger and most Jabber IM networks to connect users to each other. Skype?s new Windows 5.5 Beta comes with an XMPP engine, used to talk with Facebook?s servers, revealed when you look at the desktop client?s [...]
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