Archive for April, 2012

Attention: Skype is Half-a-Facebook in user activity, a Quarter of all International Phone Calls

Tuesday, April 24th, 2012

Skype stats: 200 million average monthly connected users make 300 billion minutes of calls yearly, half those minutes on video, and half those minutes across international borders. People spend about half the time in Skype calls that people spend on Facebook. One in four international minutes are on Skype.
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New FFT algorithm could improve Skype speed, quality

Tuesday, April 24th, 2012

Nearly Optimal Sparse Fourier Transform
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Google Chrome browser (Dev release) now has Skype-like plumbing

Tuesday, April 24th, 2012

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Google is building WebRTC into Chrome. WebRTC code and standards will let web developers and designers build realtime IM, voice and video into web apps and browser plug-ins. This milestone means we could see WebRTC apps in Chrome in the next few months. Nimbuzz and others [...]

Could Skype and other social connections increase travel instead of displacing it?

Tuesday, April 24th, 2012

Who dressed YOU?
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Should the CWA organize Skype workers? Facebook workers?

Tuesday, April 24th, 2012

More than five thousand people work in over-the-top realtime communication. The largest telecom labor union could organize them for a younger, higher growth membership.
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Christensen leaves a cloudless Skype

Tuesday, April 24th, 2012

Without Jonathan Christensen, none of Skype’s execs are championing a platform strategy.
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Culture shift as Skype moves from Republican eBay to Democratic Microsoft?

Tuesday, April 24th, 2012

Culture misalignment may have hurt Skype during the eBay years. Is Microsoft a better cultural fit?
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Hacktivists, Thieves, and Governments Drive Online Attacks

Tuesday, April 24th, 2012

“Do we blindly trust any future government? Because any right we give away, we give away for good.” – Mikko Hypponen to TEDxBrussels, November 2011.
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Tencent QQ still 3.5x bigger, 5x more active than Skype

Tuesday, April 24th, 2012

As of 30 Sep 2011, QQ had 711.7 million active IM user accounts, 145.4 million peak simultaneous users signed in. 3.5 times as many people and four times more connected than Skype.
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Skype’s 2012 Streak Continues: New High of 36 Million Concurrent Users Sunday

Tuesday, April 24th, 2012

36 million people were signed into Skype on Sunday, 11 March 2012, a new record. Four possible explanations include Latin American adoption, faster software release cycles, better UX, and mobile apps.
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