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NewsSkype launches mobile app for 50 handsets
Not surprisingly, having its Carterphone petition called for dismissal by the FCC chairman is not slowing Skype's ambition in the mobile market: Skype is now offering a beta client of its VoIP Read more...
Skype expands unlimited calling plans
According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, Skype launched its first unlimited calling plans to phones overseas. For $9.95 a month, Skype users can now make unlimited calls to landline phones Read more...
FCC chairman denies Skype's Carterphone petition
During yesterday's keynote address, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin drew applause from the audience when he announced Read more...
Skype responds to FCC Chairman Martin's keynote remarks
In today's keynote address, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin announced that the commission was going to deny Skype’s petition to apply the "Carterphone" rules to the mobile phone industry. Read more...
CTIA Day 1 Keynote: FCC chairman dismisses Skype petition
During today’s keynote address, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin drew applause from the audience when he announced that the commission was going to deny Skype’s petition to apply the “Carterphone” Read more...
Publisher's Note: Our 4G seminar at CTIA Wireless
Publisher's Note: Our 4G seminar at CTIA Wireless I am pleased to announce a new FierceWireless event, The Path to 4G @ CTIA Wireless. Conceived Read more...
Skype: Where are all the WiMAX devices?
For Gareth O'Loughlin, Skype's general manager of mobile and hardware devices, this year's Mobile World Congress show has looked to meet the challenge of bringing the Internet experience to the Read more...
On the Hot Seat with Skype's Christopher Libertelli
Shortly after the C Block of spectrum in the 700 MHz auction hit its reserve price, which triggered the open access rules for that slice of spectrum, FierceWireless editor Brian Dolan spoke with one Read more...
FCC: 700 MHz Auction to raise more than any other
After 23 rounds of bidding, the 700 MHz auction has brought in nearly $17 billion in provisionally winning bids, a total that exceeded FCC expectations. Originally, the FCC expected total winning Read more...
FEATURE: On the Hot Seat: Skype's Chris Libertelli
FierceWireless: The C Block of spectrum hit its reserve price of $4.6 billion today, which means that the open access rules the FCC implemented will stick. Google, Skype and others were instrumental Read more...
| Press ReleasesRaketu Extends Free International Calling and Free SMS-Texting With No Monthly Fee -- Unlike Services Offered by SkypeNEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire - May 12, 2008) - Raketu, a leading global
Internet communications, information, entertainment, and social
networking company, today announced that the company will extend Read more... Skype Tests Software for Mass-Market Mobile Phones LUXEMBOURG, April 24, 2008 – Following recent moves to extend Skype™ conversations to a wide variety of new mobile and wireless devices, Skype is taking another major step Read more... eBay Inc. Appoints New CEOs of Skype and Shopping.com San Jose, CA, Feb. 25, 2008 – eBay Inc. today announced that it has named Josh Silverman the Chief Executive Officer of Skype. Silverman, currently CEO of Shopping.com, an Read more... 3 SKYPEPHONE DELIVERS FREE SKYPE TO SKYPE 29th October 2007 – Skype, the global Internet communications company and 3, the mobile operator, have launched a new affordable Read more... MySpace and Skype Announce Partnership Bringing Free Internet Voice Communications to MySpace Global Community LOS ANGELES/LUXEMBOURG, October 17, 2007 — MySpace, the world’s most popular social network, and Skype, the leading Internet communications company, today announced a partnership to empower the MySpace community with voice communications. With more than 110 million monthly active MySpace users and 220 million Skype™ registered users around the world, this partnership connects two of the most popular communications platforms on the Internet to create the world’s largest online, voice-connected community. The announcement unveils MySpaceIM with Skype, a new product that integrates Read more... |