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Skype Now Means Business, Friends The SIP World [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network — ... Skype, a division of beleaguered eBay, is going corporate. The company today announced that it will play nice with corporate PBX systems that use Session Initiation Protocol (SIP). According to The Wall Street Journal, Skype for SIP product will be introduced as a beta product and will be tested by a limited number of companies. ...

Skype Going Corporate
The Next Web — ... a 400 million user milestone and have apparently earned 145 million in revenues in the 1st quarter of 2009. WSJ reports that Skype had $550 million in revenues last year, so there does seem to some improvement. However, the eBay owned company needs to improve on that and fast if it stands any chance of selling the company or recouping the $2.6 billion they paid for it. ...

Don’t Believe the Skype Hype
Digital Daily — ... allows companies to make domestic and international Skype calls from their corporate telephone systems, rather than their PCs. Initially, the company will charge about 2.1 cents per minute for calls to cellphones and fixed lines, but Skype-to-Skype calls will be free. That’s a potentially compelling proposition for business customers looking to make low-cost calls to fixed lines and mobile phones around the world. ...

First Bytes: IBM Under Fire, Intel Under Water
Tech Observer — IBM Accused of Antitrust Violation in Protecting Mainframe Franchise [NYT] Intel Freezes Top Pay, Bails Out Underwater Options [BizJournals] Dell Smartphone Ruled Too Dull to Live [Wired] Skype Soups Up Its Internet Phone Service for Corporate Customers [WSJ] Big Media Grousing About Google, Just Like Everybody Else [All Things D]Related Links Future of Green IT: Greenbacking Green Verizon's Anti-iPhone Campaign First Bytes: Facebook, MySpace, Google, Yahoo, IBM, AMD, Sony Ericsson ...

Skype Opens Up To SIP, Finally Eyes Enterprise Customers The Way It Should
TechCrunch — Internet telephony and chat service provider Skype, owned by eBay, today announced a potentially game-changing move, opening up to the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) standard for its VoIP services. As evidenced by the discussion going on at Techmeme, the beta program being rolled out by the company marks a clear initiative to target enterprise customers and open up to new revenue streams. According to the Wall Steet Journal, the new beta software - uncreatively named Skype For SIP for Business users - is expected to allow ...

Skype Goes Corporate With SIP Support
Mashable! — ... The Wall Street Journal reports, without many technical details, that popular VoIP client Skype will today announce support for the SIP protocol, which in turns means it’ll open to corporate phone systems. ...

Skype Means Business
Wired: Epicenter — ... Beta participants would be immediately able to call other Skype member for nothing — and, perhaps as important, receive calls from them at no cost the caller — and make calls to anyone else for about two cents, according to the Wall Street Journal. ...

Skype–the Twitter of Yesteryear–Hypes Web Telephone on Television (Plus: Biz Talks Biz!)
BoomTown — ... Second–although no one seems to care when it comes to Twitter as yet–monetization issues dog Skype, which actually had $550 million in revenue last year (see chart). Skype’s lackluster performance has has made many think it was a very bad acquisition for eBay, which paid $2.6 billion for it in 2005. No surprise–there are consistent rumors that eBay is looking to unload the service. That’s why it recently announced a plan to enter the corporate market, in efforts to give Skype more heft. ...

Skype App Coming to Apple iPhone at CTIA?
eWeek - RSS Feeds — ... January 2009, Skype was available for Google’s Android mobile platform and over 100 Java enabled mobile phones. Skype’s software, which allows users to make phone calls over the Internet, also gives users the ability to send instant messages, transfer files and video conference. The company contiues to see rapid growth; as of January 2009, the company is adding about 30 million subscribers a quarter and boasts 405 million user accounts worldwide. On Monday, The Wall Street Journal reported eBay is pushing Skype to generate more revenue, and the company may be turning to ...

Founders Plot Buying Back Skype from Ebay: NYT
Wired: Epicenter — ... But despite an eight-fold growth in users to 405 million Skype generates relatively little income for eBay. The basic service — calls over the internet to other Skype users — is free. Revenue, which the Wall Street Journal has reported was $550 million last year (that's $1.35 per registered user), comes from such upcharges as the lease of a telephone number so non-Skype members can call you, a service salled SkypeOut and voicemail-to-text conversion. ...