Daniel Berg is Skype’s Chief Technology Officer Skype has made significant strides in audio over the past few years. We were the first company to bring wideband audio to a broad audience. We’ve introduced robust echo cancellation, combined with pre-processing (noise suppression, automati...

Heather MacPhie is an Olympic freestyle skier, who competed in the Ladies’ Moguls in Vancouver this year. I invited her to write about her experience of the Olympics and of Skype. Watch out for the second post about her competition day in the coming weeks. One of my favorite things about the ...

Over 200 million more of you around the world can now download a great, full-featured Skype app to your mobile phones. It’s ready to download now from our website or from the Ovi store, and it does everything you’d expect a great Skype app to do. Mark explains all in the video above, bu...

To celebrate Skype being mobile we’re inviting you to unleash your message in wild and wonderful ways. We’ve set up five artists across the globe to help transform your personal messages into outdoor art. This very minute, messages from people like you are being sculpted into trees in T...

The last couple of weeks have been busy in the world of Skype on mobile. We’ve announced our partnership with Verizon in the US to deliver free Skype-to-Skype calls in the US and internationally to its 91 million subscribers – a significant step. As part of our continual review of our mo...

As always, I suspect that many of you will simply want to download the latest version now – but for the more inquisitive among you, read on to find out what’s inside. Call quality improvements 4.2 includes a brand-new call quality indicator, along with some changes behind the scenes, bot...

At CES in January we announced partnerships with Panasonic and LG to bring Skype to some of their Internet-connected HDTVs. Many of you asked if we were working with other manufacturers to do the same, and so today we’re very happy to announce a third member of the club. All Samsung LED 7000 a...

Ajit Jaokar and Chetan Sharma, eminent mobile industry analysts, have published a new white paper titled Mobile VoIP – approaching the tipping point. As Ajit says on the Open Gardens blog: The forces of technology, business models, consumer expectations, regulatory regimes, competition, and co...

Skype has joined forces with Verizon Wireless, the largest and most reliable mobile network in the US. From March, you’ll be able to get Skype on a wide range of Verizon Wireless phones, including BlackBerry Storm 9530, Storm2 9550, Curve 8330, Curve 8530, 8830 World Edition and Tour 9630 sma...

Skype has joined forces with Verizon Wireless, the largest and most reliable mobile network in the US. From March, you’ll be able to get Skype on a wide range of Verizon Wireless phones, including BlackBerry Storm 9530, Storm2 9550, Curve 8330, Curve 8530, 8830 World Edition and Tour 9630 sma...