Janus Friis, millionaire and co-founder (with Niklas Zennstrom) of Skype (VoIP software) and Kazaa (file sharing client), has been silent on his blog. Not a single entry at all in November (as of this writing), and certainly nothing more about The Venice Project, the top secret closed beta of his and Niklas Zennstrom’s rumored-to-be groundbreaking [...]
Has Skype been dropping the ball in promoting themselves? First, Jim Courtney of Skype Journal (no relationship with Skype) wrote a series of posts, Skype PR WakeUp Call, suggesting ways that Skype could improve their PR and actually let people know what features they have. One of his suggestions was that Skype interact with VoIP [...]
In the past we’ve reviewed our fair share of Skype phones, dual-mode, cordless and wifi. Unlike many dual-mode Skype phones, this one deosn’t require any connection to your PC, which is something that has become a bit of an emerging trend recently.
The RTX Dualphone 3088 is a dual-mode Skype phone that can handle Skype calls [...]
In the past we’ve covered a lot of Skype accessories, with everything from mice to the latest in wifi phones. But as far as I know, we have yet to cover a Skype-enabled remote control.
It’s called the My Voice Remote, and you can pick one up for ~$250. That sounds a lot, and it is. [...]
Anyone who knows me knows that I’m a pretty chatty person. It stands me in good stead because I almost never run out of things to write about, except when I’m overly busy. It also actually works for me, if I control myself, when I conduct interviews. Back when I ran my own print magazine, [...]