Vendor Research

This report will help vendors and solution providers understand the market dynamics surrounding non-corporately owned web and cloud-based applications (NCAs), such as Skype and Dropbox.

(27-Aug-10) Google Inc. needs to add more mobile capabilities and support for business customers to its new Internet-calling service to compete with Skype Technologies SA and rival Web-phone providers, analysts said. Google’s Gmail, the...

(22-Jul-10) Skype, which disrupted the telecommunications industry with free or low-cost calls routed over the Internet, is once again an independent company. EBay (EBAY) bought the Estonian startup in 2005, but, after a strained relationship,...

(18-Jan-09) EBay announced on Nov. 19 that it had finally completed the sale of a majority stake in Skype Technologies to a group of investors, including the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board. While the sale was a struggle — Skype's founders...

(29-Jul-09) - EBay Inc. is building new software to run its Skype Internet-calling service, a bid to sidestep a licensing dispute with Skype's founders, who have threatened to take back the underlying technology. Click here for full article

Skype's combination of strengths and shortcomings make it a complicated issue when it comes to use in business environments. However, while the desktop application poses similar security risks to other consumer messaging tools, small business IT...

VoSKY's Skype-based call trunking solution may draw the interest of organizations that are looking for cost effective opportunities to scale their expanding communications infrastructure. IT leaders should explore the merits of the VoSKY...

In late 2005, Info-Tech Research Group published a research note urging enterprises to ban the use of Skype when company policy prohibited the use of public peer-to-peer applications. Eighteen months later, we revisit Skype's ability to play...