Comments on: Skype: The Rodney Dangerfield of Telecom http://www.markevanstech.com/2008/04/02/skype-the-rodney-dangerfield-of-telecom/ A Canadian Take on the Web Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:40:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Rumors: Google compra Skype? - VoipBlog.it http://www.markevanstech.com/2008/04/02/skype-the-rodney-dangerfield-of-telecom/#comment-53721 Rumors: Google compra Skype? - VoipBlog.it Mon, 07 Apr 2008 16:30:08 +0000 http://www.markevanstech.com/2008/04/02/skype-the-rodney-dangerfield-of-telecom/#comment-53721 [...] riportava la notizia di un’imminente acquisizione o accordo strategico tra Google e Skype e altri hanno presto [...] [...] riportava la notizia di un’imminente acquisizione o accordo strategico tra Google e Skype e altri hanno presto [...]

]]> By: Jim Courtney http://www.markevanstech.com/2008/04/02/skype-the-rodney-dangerfield-of-telecom/#comment-53634 Jim Courtney Sun, 06 Apr 2008 00:01:34 +0000 http://www.markevanstech.com/2008/04/02/skype-the-rodney-dangerfield-of-telecom/#comment-53634 Well, Skype "don't get no respect" except from Oprah. She is now using Skype's recently introduced High Quality Video for remote interviews on both her regular show and a ten week evening webcast class about Eckhart Tolle's book "A New Earth" You can read about this and all the other Skype news that's "not about eBay's non-strategic acquisition" over at Skype Journal. In practice they are doing very well on the technology front, especially the High Quality Video. Over the past year Skype has also made many improvements to its audio -- the most noticeable being introduction of full echo cancellations. And the new Skype 3.8 beta for Windows has even more audio quality improvements which even "ordinary" people are noticing. As for the business side, we have to hope that new CEO Josh Silverman, who only started a week ago last Monday (Mar 24) is able to figure out how to turn Skype into a real business to bring it up to a valuation that would make Google pay even more billions to acquire it. Full disclosure: yep, I have to admot that I write a lot of those posts on Skype Journal. Well, Skype “don’t get no respect” except from Oprah. She is now using Skype’s recently introduced High Quality Video for remote interviews on both her regular show and a ten week evening webcast class about Eckhart Tolle’s book “A New Earth”

You can read about this and all the other Skype news that’s “not about eBay’s non-strategic acquisition” over at Skype Journal.

In practice they are doing very well on the technology front, especially the High Quality Video. Over the past year Skype has also made many improvements to its audio — the most noticeable being introduction of full echo cancellations. And the new Skype 3.8 beta for Windows has even more audio quality improvements which even “ordinary” people are noticing.

As for the business side, we have to hope that new CEO Josh Silverman, who only started a week ago last Monday (Mar 24) is able to figure out how to turn Skype into a real business to bring it up to a valuation that would make Google pay even more billions to acquire it.

Full disclosure: yep, I have to admot that I write a lot of those posts on Skype Journal.

]]> By: Team Think mobile edition http://www.markevanstech.com/2008/04/02/skype-the-rodney-dangerfield-of-telecom/#comment-53341 Team Think mobile edition Wed, 02 Apr 2008 14:08:19 +0000 http://www.markevanstech.com/2008/04/02/skype-the-rodney-dangerfield-of-telecom/#comment-53341 [...] and disruptive to a wildly over-priced acquisition” when it purchased Skype, writes Mark Evans., and took a $1.4 billion writedown on the [...] [...] and disruptive to a wildly over-priced acquisition” when it purchased Skype, writes Mark Evans., and took a $1.4 billion writedown on the [...]

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