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Skype Call Recorder records Skype calls — for free
By Brad Linder, Downloadsquad
Skype Call Recorder is a no-frills Windows utility for recording both ends of a Skype conversation. Because of the way Skype transmits your voice across the interwebs, you can’t just use most all-purpose audio recording apps like Audacity or the Windows Sound Recorder. Instead you need to use third party apps or [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Freeware Monitors Skype Subscription Usage Limits
By Kevin C., jkontherun.com
It’s no secret that we’ve enjoyed using Skype for audio and video calls for the past several years on our various mobile devices. Aside from free Skype-to-Skype calls and paid SkypeOut services, the company also offers unlimited monthly subscription plans as low as $2.95 a month, although they’re subject to a Fair-Use [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Skype to let competitors license speech codec for free
By Brad Linder
Voice over IP company Skype is known for a couple things. One of them is annoying the #@&! out of telephone companies by offering cheap or free voice and video calls over the internet. But another thing that Skype does well is offer users the ability to communicate across long distances with excellent [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Skype To Give Away New SILK Audio Codec
By Michael Arrington
Skype’s new state of the art speech codec SILK will be made available to third party licensees for free, the company is announcing later today. Skype GM Jonathan Christensen will be speaking about the new program at the eComm event in San Francisco later today.
SILK has been highly regarded by the guys that [...]
Skype and SpinVox offer voicemail to text conversion
By Brad Linder
Skype is launching a new feature that will let users convert voicemail messages to text which you can have sent to your phone via SMS. The company is working with SpinVox to offer the service.
The service will cost you. Prices run 25 cents per conversion in the US, which is about .20 Euros [...]
Cellular providers want Nokia to drop Skype from cell phones
Two cell service providers in the UK are supposedly up in arms over Nokia’s inclusion of Skype software on its N97 handset, and are threatening not to carry the device unless the software is ditched. This stance is not only annoying to consumers who are beginning to like VoIP, but it could also even hurt [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Skype To Go phone numbers now available for all paying users
By Brad Linder
Skype To Go is a service that lets you make cheap phone calls over Skype from a regular phone. Here’s how it works. You sign up for a Skype To Go phone number that’s linked to your Skype account. You can then dial that number from any phone to initiate a phone call [...]
EU group aims to eavesdrop on Skype calls
By Julian Sanchez
The EU’s judicial coordination group says criminals are increasingly turning to encrypted VoIP tools like Skype to evade surveillance—and is launching an effort to ensure that European law enforcement can listen in.
As high-tech tools expand the ability of intelligence and law enforcement agencies to sweep up and sort vast quantities of communications traffic, [...]
Mozilla And Skype Back EFF On iPhone Jailbreaking DMCA Exemption Request
by Robin Wauters
In a filing with the US Copyright Office, both Skype and Mozilla have expressed their support to a request by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) for an exemption to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act related to iPhone jailbreaking, says AppleInsider. This exemption would take away Apple’s ability to charge groups with DMCA [...]
Skype Integration On Handsets: Threat Or Opportunity For Mobile VoIP Startups?
Skype is (finally) teaming up with mobile handset maker Nokia to get its VoIP and IM software program pre-installed on some of Nokia’s devices, as announced at the Mobile World Congress and reported by MobileCrunch. The eBay-owned company had 405 million registered users in total at the end of last year, and Nokia is still [...]
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