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analysis | architecture | Business | events | netneutrality | regulation | SkypeKit | software | supernova | Technology Today is Supernova Perestroika. Wishing I could be there. Don’t use the content of my bits to treat my bits differently than anyone else’s bits. That’s the general thrust of network neutrality. Common carriage, that the companies moving my phone call or video call or email shouldn’t know or care about who I’m speaking [...] Skype‘s rate of growth is slowing, says Hudson Barton, who tracks Skype user long term activity. "At this point in ’09, Skype ‘Real Users’ was up 18% YTD. This year it is up 13%." Barton adjusts the number of Skype accounts logged in at each moment for regions and common behavior, like logging in during [...] Internet access, privacy, media diversity (@MediaDiversity), and net neutrality are on the California Democratic Party‘s 2010 platform. Why not data portability? Internet, Free Speech and Communications California Democrats, in order to promote vigorous free speech, a vibrant business community, and unfettered access to all information on the Internet, support policies to preserve an [...] Download. From the iTunes app store: "Run Skype in the background with multitasking in iOS4. Receive Skype calls and IM while other apps are running or when your iPhone is locked. You can also continue your call while you switch to another application. Multitasking is available only with iPhone 4 and iPhone 3GS." Peter Parkes [...] architecture | Developers | events | meetup | platforming | Skype | Technology | twilio | USA | VoIP | Voxeo Telecom platform geeks convened for the first SF Telephony Meetup. I linked to YouTube videos of most of the talks below. We were welcomed to the first SF Telephony meetup by Gabriel Sidhom, CTO of Orange Labs San Francisco. Gabriel teased us with a thought experiment: "What if the phone wasn’t the first thing that [...] From an email: Hello fringsters, As you may have noticed, Skype has blocked fring. We are very sorry for any inconvenience this Skype policy has unfairly caused you. As loyal fring users, you deserve an explanation: Last week, following the surge in fring video calling traffic, fring service to Skype was temporarily reduced [...] Sometimes art frames a story. Here’s how a TechCrunch artist framed Skype telling Fring to stop its Skype gateway. Here’s how Fring probably feels about it.
This is not a contest of equals. Skype is a heavyweight with more money, more cash flow, more brand and many more lawyers. [...] analysis | architecture | Business | Developer Zone | facebook | google | identity | platforming | skypeforbusiness | SkypeKit | Technology More than 500 million people have Skype names but they only use them to sign in to Skype. Meanwhile Facebook, Google, Twitter, Yahoo!, MySpace and LinkedIn provide portable identity to their customers. The chart is courtesy of a Gigya.com report on multiple identity services. Identity providers offer: Registration. Authentication for login. Data sharing. [...] Skype has been flexible on privacy when it comes to major markets. Skype’s China software, distributed through a TOM-Skype joint venture, censors text chats and enables government monitoring. Skype mobile for Verizon Wireless in the US is CALEA compliant, offering contact and call records and live intercepts to American law enforcement and intelligence agencies. India’s [...] We try to be nice. We try for upbeat and to catch everyone doing things well. But sometimes we’re grumpy and kvetch. The DataPortability Project launched PortabilityPolicy.org in June 2010 to encourage every site to explain their data portability practices in a data portability policy. Project director Elias Bizannes said every site should publish a [...] Stanford Research Park will become home this fall to about eighty Skype employees now scattered among Bay Area cities. It’s off Page Mill Road about half a mile south of El Camino Real. The space has room for 250 to 350 employees so expect Skype to continue hiring. The TIBCO company cafeteria isn’t too far [...] |
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