Continuing its apology for the outage, Skype has sent an email saying sorry for any inconvenience, as well as. Below is an email from Skype CEO Tony Bates offering 7 days of credit for current subscribers. Sorry for any inconvenience
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Skype apologizes for outage and offers 30 minutes of calling
Skype apologizes for the worldwide outage last week that had most users unable to use Skype services. Below is an email from skype CEO regarding the outage and offering 30 minutes of free calling to landline phones (note: some information in email letter has been modified to protect privacy). Sorry for any inconvenience
Skype Out – no really it is OUT!
The blogosphere and the twittersphere is aflame with the news that Skype has an outage, making it clear that this outage is BIG – in terms of news and in terms of the duration of outage. With more than 500 million friends, it is not surprising that many many people notice when Skype is down. [...]
Skype moves into the Asterisk IP-PBX
Last month Skype announced an agreement with Digium, the primary developer of the asterisk open-source IP-PBX software, to enable Skype from Asterisk. What this means is that one could make skype calls, even long distance and International telephone calls, from your office office phone as well as receive skype calls on your office phone. The [...]
Telephony Usage among U.S. Adults shows Cord-cutting continuing
Harris Interactive, a market research firm, has conducted a survey of 9,132 adults conducted in 4Q of 2007 to find out the telephony usage patterns of U.S. adults. The survey shows that about 14% of adults are cord-cutters, up from about 10% in 2006. The percentage of adults with landline phones has dropped slightly to [...]
Will Comcast be able to stop Online Movie downloading in its tracks
Amazon has the Amazon Unbox on Tivo service, and both Netflix and Apple recently announced online movie rental services, and eventually you will be able to see Joost and Babelgum programs on TV. All this point to a market crowded with new ways to get movies fast and cheap over the Internet Naturally, the incumbents [...]
Finally a patent settlement where Vonage doesn’t shell out money
In the short history of Vonage, 2007 is the year when Vonage ended up losing four patent suits, and in each case, having to pay huge sums of money. Vonage has pay AT&T $39 million, Sprint Nextel (S) $80 million, and Verizon Communications (VZ) $120 million to settle patent infringement lawsuits. However, Vonage’s patent dispute [...]
Startup Ribbit finally comes out
Back in July of last year, I wrote about Silicon Valley startup Ribbit when it was a yet another startup in stealth mode, surmising that Ribbit is a softswitch-based VoIP telephony service that is accessible from a browser via a Flash application. Well, Ribbit has “come out” – and announced that its new platform is [...]
Solicall reduces Background Noise in VoIP calls
Have you ever been on a conference call where someone’s talking while on the go and its hard to hear the conversation because there’s a lot of background noise? If you have, and are annoyed by it, there’s a solution for it. SoliCall, Israeli-based privately-held company, announced the release of its PBXMate – a technology [...]
Voice over IP revenue around the World skyrocket
Last month, I wrote that US Voice over IP (VoIP) subscriptions are skyrocketing. That was about VoIP in the U.S., but the VoIP story around the Globe was no different. Worlwide revenue from retail Voice over IP (VoIP) services almost quadrupled (4x) from $1.834 Billion in 2005 to $6.908 Billion in 2006, according to research [...]
