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It’s All About the ‘Experience’

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Several major trends are impacting the service provider industry. The commoditization of voice and bandwidth: Voice is evolving from a service to merely an application, and consumer bandwidth cost per Mbps (megabit per second) has decreased by roughly 60 to 70 percent in the past five years. The growth of bundled services: Major carriers around…

Skype Service Outage Silences Subscribers

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

A software problem at Skype left many users of the popular VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) service unable to log in or make calls Thursday, and with little hope for relief until Friday, the company said. “Some of you may be having problems logging into Skype,” the company wrote on its support blog at about…

Skype: Patch Tuesday Led to Blackout Friday

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Skype said that a Microsoft patch downloaded on Patch Tuesday triggered a bug in its software that eventually resulted in the IP (Internet Protocol)-based service going dark for nearly two days. The disruption in the free, peer-to-peer (P2P) network began unexpectedly on Thursday. Service was completely restored by late Friday. The system went down because…

Worm Winds Its Way Into Skype for Windows

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

In a high-profile reminder of the security pitfalls that still exist with PC-based communications, eBay’s Skype is warning users of a fast-spreading worm affecting users of Skype for Windows. The worm spreads through the peer-to-peer phone service’s instant chat application and is activated when a user clicks in a link in an instant message they…

New Solo Phone Disconnects Skype From Computer

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Skype hardware maker Ipevo announced on Tuesday the U.S. launch of the Solo, a desktop Skype phone that makes phone calls over the Internet without being tethered to a computer. Ipevo officials hope the stand-alone device will catch the fancy of users who shy away from computers. The always-on phone, however, requires a broadband Internet…

MySpace-Skype Deal Turns Keyboard Clatter to Chatter

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

MySpace users will soon be able to chat by phone thanks to a new partnership between Skype and the popular social networking site, the companies announced Wednesday. MySpaceIM with Skype is a new product that integrates MySpace’s instant messaging client with Skype’s free voice-calling capability using Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP). Launching next month in…

Skype Flies the Coop With Mobile Handset

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Skype and the mobile network carrier 3 announced on Monday they have launched a handset model to be sold in Europe. The new service will allow Skype users to make free Skype-to-Skype calls as well as send free instant messages from a mobile phone to other Skype users “no matter where they are,” the company…

Busy Patch Tuesday Piles Work on Sysadmins

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Microsoft released 11 security updates to patch 17 vulnerabilities on Tuesday, by far its largest release in a year. There were five critical and six important updates, the two highest levels issued by the software company. The patches cover a wide range of Microsoft products from Word, Publisher and the Office suite down to Microsoft…

Botnet Survivor: Outwit, Outplay, Outlast Bot Herders at Their Own Game

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Early adopters are typically characterized as progressive risk-takers who have little to lose and much to gain. Following this logic, it makes perfect sense that within this crowd we find bot herders — hackers who control a large number of compromised PCs (or bots) for malicious purposes. Yet it’s unsettling that these unsavory characters are…

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