When Skype Met The Stage
Are you ready? Two theatre venues in separate countries, with actors and audiences, tethered by Skype to present one simultaneous and highly interactive, trans-media, trans-atlantic play, all live streamed to the web, and responding to the input of tweets… Read more
A lesson from abroad: How two global classrooms used Skype to learn
Two different continents–one learning experience. For the Villa Maria schools in Immaculata, PA and Santiago, Chile, this was the reality when the schools came together for an engineering lesson over Skype video call. Villanova University professor Dr. David Dinehart taught… Read more
Skype named Best Money Saving Mobile App by Carphone Warehouse Appy Awards
We're in celebration mode here at Skype after receiving some great news last night. Thanks to voters in the Carphone Warehouse Appys Awards in the UK, Skype's mobile apps for iOS, Android and Symbian were named Best Money Saving App…. Read more
Getting to Know Skype Manager
Hello. My name is Mart "Tram" Abramov, and I am one of the product managers here for Skype Manager. Since the launch of Skype Manager in May 2010, we have received a lot of feedback and responses from our users…. Read more
Skype 5.3 for Windows: Improved received video quality on calls with mobiles and quality improvements
We have just released Skype 5.3 for Windows. For this release, we've spent the majority of our time improving Skype's call quality, and have fixed a number of bugs. We would recomend to upgrade now and let us know… Read more
Skype 2.2 Beta for Linux
Skype 2.2 Beta for Linux, codenamed ‘Access Granted’, is here and brings Skype Access to our Linux users. Skype Access lets you connect to over 500,000 WiFi hotspots worldwide using your Skype Credit. We’ve improved audio and video quality and… Read more
Skype 2.2 beta for Linux with Skype Access and improved audio/video quality
Today is the day. I'm glad to write to you about Skype 2.2 beta for Linux. The major new features of the Skype 2.2 for Linux are: Skype Access Support for call waiting and holding Improved audio/video quality in… Read more
Are you part of the Living Workplace transformation?
Over on our enterprise blog, Joanna Brace introduced our Living Workplace study, which looks at recent trends in business technology: Why do I call it The Living Workplace? Because the notion of work is being re-invented. How we communicate and… Read more
The New Living Workplace
Today, new technologies in the workplace are taking hold. We have more forms of communication in the workplace then ever before – e-mail, landline calls, instant messages, texts, video calls, social media, mobile calls, VoIP, SMS, conferencing and more. This… Read more
An update on Skype for Mac
Over the last few days we’ve seen renewed interest in the design of Skype for Mac, and I’m going to give you some insight into our thinking and into our plans to address some of your concerns. Some background: at… Read more
