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attaboy, skype

August 21st, 2007 · No Comments

To follow-up on the Skype outtage of last week, which apparently was caused by too many Windows users logging in after a “Patch Tuesday”, I received this email today:

Hello
You may or may not know but last week Skype wasn’t available for a couple of days. There were a number of reasons for this and [...]

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skype credit?

August 16th, 2007 · No Comments

As of this very moment, Skype’s network is down:

UPDATED 14:02 GMT: Some of you may be having problems logging into Skype. Our engineering team has determined that it’s a software issue. We expect this to be resolved within 12 to 24 hours. Meanwhile, you can simply leave your Skype client running and as soon as [...]

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i’m so glad i didn’t get a long-distance plan

July 21st, 2006 · 1 Comment

A while back, I was pleased when I heard Skype was allowing free Skype-to-landline calls to/from Canada and the US. However, the stipulation is that it will be free until December 31, 2006. After that, it’s any body’s guess what eBay (who own Skype) will do; continue this bit o’ loveliness or not. [...]

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Tags: Computers · Gizmo · Internet · Skype · VoIP

reach out and touch someone

May 16th, 2006 · 1 Comment

Last night I read on Digg that Skype is allowing SkypeOut calls to/from Canada and the US for free…at least until December 31, 2006 for now. Read more about it here:
http://share.skype.com/sites/en/2006/05/free_calls_to_all_landlines_an.html
Apparently there’s a problem in that if your IP address is within the range of 70.x.x.x to 79.x.x.x, this might not work. I’m [...]

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Tags: Computers · Internet · Skype · VoIP