Skype Blogs

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

Welcome! It has been quite a ride to get here…. Read more

3 million people were concurrently online on Wed, May 18…. Read more

We've had many people ask, "I like Skype and I promote it a lot – can I get something in return?" We launched our paid affiliate scheme just a few weeks ago, but some of you may not be up… Read more

The Insight series is about some less discussed features of Skype – the program and its features, the services, as well as the people and company running the whole show. By making Skype easy to use, we often make a… Read more