What did you learn on Skype today?
Tim Wu teaches his class at Columbia Law via Skype from Berlin. It’s become clear to us over the last week or so that Skype is an essential tool for educators in a crisis. Reports have been streaming in… Read more
Getting married over Skype
What do you do when you’re stranded in Dubai and need to get married? Use Skype, of course That’s exactly what Sean Murtagh and Natalie Mead did – travel disruption meant that they couldn’t make it to London, so… Read more
Free WiFi from Skype to ease your travel pains
While the air traffic situation in Northern Europe gradually begins to return to normality, a lot of you around the world will still be spending more time than usual at airports. To help you stay in touch with friends, family… Read more
Skype at Orphans International
At Mobile World Congress this year, I bumped into Jim Luce of Orphans International. He set up the charity in 1999 to help orphaned or abandoned children, with a very simple guiding principle: that all children in the care… Read more
5 essential tips for business travellers stranded by volcanic ash
Even though Eyjafjallajokull seems to have stopped emitting ash for the time being, many of you will be stuck away from the office, possibly many timezones away. Here are five top tips to help you make the most of the… Read more
Have you ever made a Skype video call with a dolphin?
I love this article from Tampa Bay Online. Students at a school in Florida took a different kind of field trip to the Clearwater Marine Aquarium – one which didn’t involve leaving the school at all. Instead, they met… Read more
Skype for iPhone will run in the background with iPhone OS 4
We’ve updated our iPhone app – you can now make video calls. Update: Skype for iPhone update for iOS 4 coming soon. Skype’s David Ponsford has just left the stage at Apple’s developer event, where he demoed a version of… Read more
Skype 4.2 for Windows hotfix 2
Today we have released a second hotfix for Skype 4.2 for Windows. With this hotfix we have fixed a issue which was affecting people who were upgrading from older versions and had some old outstanding authorization requests which got displayed… Read more
Skype and the Apple iPad
We’ve updated our iPhone app – you can now receive video calls on your iPad. Update: We’ve released a quick update to our iPhone app which addresses a couple of iPad teething problems. You can download it now (opens in… Read more
On Skype mobile and WiFi
In the 5 days since the launch of Skype mobile, we’ve seen a phenomenal response both in the media and from individuals like you, in blogs and on social networking sites. One question which has come up a lot is… Read more
