Skype Blogs

Today's Featured Skyper is David who serves in U.S. Marine Corps. As you'll hear in the interview, his assignments have taken him far away from home and he finds Skype useful for keeping in touch with folks. Download this interview… Read more

The Skype API [developer documents](/developer_zone/developer_zone/documents_and_examples/) are now available in Japanese and Simplified and Traditional Chinese, in addition to English…. Read more

We started PayPal payments beta testing in USA on February 18 and shortly followed with other countries. Today, we're happy to [announce](http://www.skype.com/company/news/2005/paypal.html) that the beta has been completed successfully and PayPal is now officially available as a payment method for… Read more

Due to popular demand, the [Skype Banners](/affiliate/) are now available in the following languages: **English** (as before), **French**, **German**, **Japanese**, **Korean**, **Chinese**, **Portuguese** and **Spanish**. [Go get them](/affiliate/) and start collecting [Skype Points](/tools_for_sharing/tools_for_sharing/skype_points_faq/)!… Read more

How to make your own Skype phone out of a old useless cordless phone. This sort of amateur tinkering is lots of fun! Occasionally, we use the same methods in Skype development and testing Cost $0. Material used: one wireless… Read more

[VON Stockholm](http://www.voneurope.com): What a gathering – even at 10.00 on the pre-opening seminar day, Monday, blessed with the excitement of EU regulatory framework discussion and having gotten out of bed at 0400 on a cold Monday morning, the halls were… Read more

From [Martin Geddes](http://www.telepocalypse.net/archives/000686.html). Friday: Had a 4-minute conversation with a business associate who was on his GSM cell phone in Hong Kong. Voice quality was terrible, and I really struggled to make out what he was saying. Sunday: Had a… Read more

Even though we kicked off blogs.skype.com just a couple of days ago without that much visibility from any of our other sites or services yet, feedback has been great! Thanks to all who have been giving feedback, ideas and bug… Read more

We often get questions from new Skype customers who haven't been using international calling that much, and are now about to use SkypeOut that requires you to enter all phone numbers in an international format. A [dialing wizard](http://www.skype.com/products/skypeout/rates/dialing.html) is now… Read more

We continue to work hard to ensure that our free and paid services are reliable. Despite that, the experience of some users sometimes is that the regular phone network appears to be more reliable than Skype. Apparently, net being more… Read more