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Skype ends Asterisk for Skype Agreement http://snapvoip.blogspot.com/

Within two weeks of acquiring Skype, Microsoft is set out to cut all Open Source ties to Skype, begining with Asterisk, the best open source IPPBX in the world.

According to a letter from Digium to it’s customers, Skype will not renew its agreement with Digium that allowed Asterisk to be integrated with the Skype service…

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I almost forgot about this post on Android developers blog. Last weekend was the Maker Faire, and Google was very visible.

Of all the nifty things, ADB, Android Developer Blog noted the following information;

Bits and Pieces from Googlers at the Faire

Most of these are 20%-project output of the new open-source project called Easy Peripheral…

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Skype partnered with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to offer a special version of the Skype client for its relief workers. Now OCHA, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, is working with Voxbone to deploy 888 phone numbers so entire agencies can be directly dialed wherever [...]

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Melanie Salvatierra posts a remembrance of Skype?s sponsorship of The Oprah Winfrey Show, airing its last episode today. Frankly, Skype might never have reached popular awareness in the United States without Oprah?s support. Will Oprah?s new cable channel producers use Skype without being paid? Even when using Skype gives Skype final cut per section [...]

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I just caught two Asterisk notes. First, Digium CEO Danny Windham boiled down the big Microsoft-Skype story into one headline: Microsoft plus Skype, equals Microsoft. My favorite lines: What of the potential benefits resulting from plans for Skype integration into Microsoft?s business-class communication products, such as Lync? That remains a mystery, and calls [...]

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Can engineers understand what you say in an encrypted Skype call? Four researchers from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill think so. Andrew White, Austin Matthews, Kevin Snow, and Fabian Monrose presented their paper, Phonotactic Reconstruction of Encrypted VoIP Conversations: Hookt on fon-iks (PDF), yesterday to the IEEE Symposium on Security and [...]

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Apple’s letter to Lodsys http://snapvoip.blogspot.com/

After being elated by Apple’s letter to Lodsys yesterday, I feel I am back to square one again. One thing is, this is not something that Apple is fighting the patent (they already licensed it)and telling Lodsys that it does not understand the agreement or there is a misunderstanding.

Even if Apple stand behind the app developers, what if…

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Microsoft Phone 7.1 “Mango” http://snapvoip.blogspot.com/

Microsoft has officially announced about Microsoft Phone “Mango” at the Microsoft?s Windows Phone VIP Reception. President of mobile communications at Microsoft, Andy Lees and senior Windows Phone product manager Derek Snyder has given a quick rundown of features and capabilities of the newest version of the Windows Phone platform, WP7.1…

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Apple  Lodsys iOS developers http://snapvoip.blogspot.com/

Not many times I take my hat off for Apple but today is one of those days. Apple has notified Lodsys via email and a letter to leave Apple’s developers alone. That the license Apple obtained, covers all it’s developers.

Patent trolls has been out looking for easy pickings like small app developers. I hope other big boys too wake…

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Customer attrition makes or breaks your business. Until recently, Skype never shared details on abandonment rates. But we know Skype has roughly 170 million active users and nearly 700 million user accounts. So where did those dormant 500+ million accounts go? Skype users climb a ladder of engagement, and can fall off the [...]

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