UPDATE: WHOOPS! Financial Times says EU Commission will approve deal, no strings. I guess it still managed to slip through. ?Competition reviews are still under way in Russia, Ukraine, Serbia and Taiwan.? Less than 100 hours from Europe ruling on the Microsoft-Skype purchase, Skype?s Jean-Jacques Sahel shared a Plum report on the [...]
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Skype is too big to slip under regulatory radar again. If the EU commission requires Microsoft to comply with a short list of demands, Skype can be a better corporate citizen, a more competitive platform provider, and literally save lives. Here’s how. [...]
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Skype for iPhone 3.0.1 security vulnerabilities will be fixed soon, says Skype. Tom Keating, Jim Courtney and Dan York write up the #XSS (cross-site scripting) exploit that could let a javascript copy your Skype contacts. first reported by Superever. The video. This follows another XSS vulnerability in Skype for Windows, now resolved. [...]
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OPSWAT reported market share of installed Windows instant messenger apps for 2011Q2 (pdf). With Windows Live Messenger at 40.67% and Skype at 27.39%, that would put Microsoft?s post-acquisition share of the desktop side of the market north of 68%. Should this affect the EC?s merger approval? Does this market consolidation justify anti-trust restrictions? [...]
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For the last few months I?ve been helping Hookflash prepare for launch. We came out of stealth mode Tuesday, announcing Hookflash for iPad at the DEMO Fall 2011 conference (Booth D6, if you?re there). I also showed it yesterday at TechCrunch Disrupt?s Startup Alley. Preview signups are on the home page and following [...]
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Jim Courtney has a complete report on the European Commission?s review of the merger. News early next month but Jim works through how they?ll get there. Think the Commish will call for public comment? Is Microskype good for telecoms competition in Europe? What do Europe?s big telcos have to say? Is Skype a [...]
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A $39.99 box the size of a coffee mug, the FREETALK Connect.me lets Americans plug your dumb phone into your Ethernet network. Your phone rings when someone Skypes you or calls your SkypeIn phone number. You can call out to phone numbers using your Skype credits or your SkypeOut subscription. And you can [...]
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Wow, It?s been eight years since Skype launched. 2003 to 2011. I?ve been writing about Skype on my own blogs or on Skype Journal from the start. SJ alum Jim Courtney salutes Skype today and Skype pats itself on the back. Looking back… The company has been bought and sold, and sold, [...]
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Push-to-Talk is a style of voice call control reminiscent of the way you use a WW II era walkie talkie; on a common channel, the channel is silent unless a participant presses and holds down a button, turning on a microphone. Releasing the button turns off the mic. This is attractive when you have [...]
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Chart showing timeline of effect of North American Level 3/TimeWarnerCable Internet outage on 7 November 2011. cc-by Phil Wolff. More than 3.4 million North American Skype users, about 12% of those online at the time, were affected by an ISP service fumble, with reduced or [...]
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