disruptivetelephony.com - 1/6/2009
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Tonight out at the "ShowStoppers" event at MacWorld in San Francisco, Skype announced the new 2.8 Beta for Mac OS X. The new version will apparently be available for download tomorrow, January 6, 2009, from Skype's website. [NOTE: I will...
about.skype.com - 1/8/2009
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about.skype.com —
LAS VEGAS (CES BOOTH: HILTON #5121), January 8,
2009 - Skype today announced the release of a...
lite version of Skype™, a 'thin' client for Skype that can be downloaded on Android-powered devices, as well as more than 100 other Java-enabled mobile ...
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Skype Launches on Android Platform and more than 100 ...
denverpost.com - 1/10/2009
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denverpost.com —
LAS VEGAS Free calls over Skype, the Internet
communications service, could be coming soon to the iPhone....
Skype, a subsidiary of eBay Inc., said Thursday at the International Consumer Electronics Show that a version of its Internet calling and ...
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Free calls from Skype could come soon to iPhones - The ...
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Skype 2.8 for Mac coming Tuesday, with screen sharing and WiFi connector
Webware.com —
... Disruptive Telephony covered other new features in Skype 2.8, including a new way to update your Skype "mood" and to follow users in a Twitter-like fashion, bigger Avatar images, and a new way to manage and prioritize chat windows. ...
Skype 2.8 for Mac: Your Online Demo Is Calling
ReadWriteWeb —
... Here at ReadWriteWeb, we're not usually in the "report it before you've tried it" camp, but a couple of trusted sources - Dan York and ...
Skype for Mac 2.8 Adds Screen Sharing, Other Mac-only Features
Wired: Epicenter —
... By themselves mood messages might seem a bit “me too!” but Dan York claims there is a way to pass your mood updates on to Twitter, which would make the feature mildly more useful. (York also has a nice video screencast of Skype 2.8 in action, if you want to see what’s new before you commit to the upgrade). ...
Skype 2.8 for Mac Adds Screen Sharing, WiFi Access and More [jkOnTheRun]
GigaOM Network —
... While we’re on the way to CES, there is another show going on of course. I’m talking about MacWorld and there’s some mobile news from Skype that hit last night. The new ...
Could Skype be a Web-Ex Killer?
The Inquisitr » Technology —
... as this available to everyone…well eventually anyway, Windows users can view a Mac shared desktop over Skype now, even if they can’t share their own quite desktops yet.
It’s great to see the Mac version of Skype getting some attention; usually it lags well behind the Windows version for new features, and this continued push forward with improvements and great value ads can only bide the company well if and when eBay tries to sell it later this year.
Disruptive Techonlogy has a demo video that includes the desktop sharing as follows: ...
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Beta release of scrummy new features Skype will be launching a new client tomorrow just for Mac users, which provides screen sharing, bigger avatars and Wi-Fi hotspot access to the ubiquitous VoIP service.…
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