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Do you remember the [German e-plus announcement](http://blogs.skype.com/sites/en/2005/11/skype_on_german_eplus_3g_netwo.html) from last November? We just did the same with [3](http://www.tre.se). 3 is a 3G operator in Sweden and Denmark. (And has a cool name — it's hard to come up with anything cooler… Read more

Today, Jan 23 2006, was the first time when more than 5 million users in Skype were simultaneously online. We got from 4 to 5 million in about 3 months. There's 5.066 million on that picture — some people reported… Read more

brandchannel.com survey identifies Skype as #3 global brand in 2005. Holy cow. Apparently it was a survey that was running on their site for a past few months of the previous year. There's a significant comment about the methodology: >… Read more

Skype 2.0.0.73 for Windows is now out. [Get it here.](http://www.skype.com/products/skype/windows/) The detailed list of changes is in the [change log](http://www.skype.com/products/skype/windows/changelog.html). Most fixes are minor, but one deserves attention — the DEP crashing fix. A story has been going round on… Read more

Do you ever think there was an easier way to pay for for Skype Credit, SkypeIn and all those things? There is now — with PayPal. When you go to pay with PayPal, you can now go for "PayPal Preapproved"… Read more

There's quite a bunch of [videos in Google Video about Skype](http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=Skype). We have no idea who, when, how or why put them there. But then again does it really matter? Some of them are actually funny. We like funny. Funny… Read more

NETGEAR has put up a page where you can find out more about their upcoming Skype WiFi phone, and can sign up for e-mail updates to be the first to know when it becomes available…. Read more

Here's a cool Sony gadget. A phone that looks like a mouse. Or the other way. Whatever. Anyway, it works like a normal USB mouse, except that if a call comes in over Skype, you can flip it open and… Read more

The Skype virus is spreading in the Nordic region. A news team documented it. You can [download the results (60 MB)](http://download.skype.com/share/video/the-nordic-virus.avi). [Download the movie.](http://download.skype.com/share/video/the-nordic-virus.avi)… Read more

Estonian people are very creative. We invented Skype. It apparently doesn't stop there. Now we have other Estonian people inventing all sorts of weird uses for it, and not only inventing it but documenting it as well. [Here's one about… Read more