Skype also suffered a two-day outage in August that ticked off its users. eBay took a $900 million write-down on the unit last year. This hasn’t played out as well as the online auction company expected. The allure of Skype lies in its free calls between consumers, but eBay had expected more businesses to sign up for paid Skype services and support. This is as true as Skype has historically been a financial albatross for eBay, which bought the company in 2005 for $3.1 billion. “Skype is more than just cheap and free voice calls… we’re really enabling many modes of conversation,” Don Albert, general manager of Skype North America, told press and analysts during a call June 18. This is a departure from Skype 3.0 and earlier versions, which hid such features behind too many tabs and menus, making it tricky for users trying to host multiple conversations. There is also greater conversation management.įor example, conversations button above the contact lists all the conversations users have going on and users can now click between them to pick up a conversation where they left off by storing them, or pull conversations out into separate windows. New unified conversations capabilities pull instant messaging, voice, video, file transfers, SMS and calls together, allowing users to easily move in and out of conversations between single users or groups. Users can choose to have an IM conversation alongside the video call, also with one click, from one window. to Europe right from your computer to her laptop by making a single click on the Video call button. Short of being face-to-face with your best friend whose summering in Paris, Skype 4.0 lets you conduct video chats with he or she from U.S. That’s the biggest change and it is a slam dunk at a time when users are increasingly using the Web as a preferred means of communication with friends, colleagues and business partners.
The new Skype 4.0 Beta for Windows aims to leverage the fact that 28 percent of Skype calls were video calls in the first quarter of 2008. Skype, the popular free VOIP (Voice Over Internet Protcol) unit of eBay, June 18 released a revamped platform that makes it easier for the service’s 309 million users to make video calls from their computers.
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