Recording Skype conversations

Update: Writing in August 2006, I’ve decided to turn this page into a list of Skype conversation recording software, after asking this back in January 2005: One drawback of Skype: recording conversations. For a journalist this is quite an important drawback since recording an interview over the phone is as necessary as recording an interview … Read more

Skype Comes To Asia

Skype has teamed up with Korea’s Daum Communications to offer a co-branded Korean version of the pseudo-VOIP free telephony service. Korea has the highest penetration of broadband in the world, and Daum claims 37 million members, so this could be quite a hit there. There’s no mention of whether the service offers Skype Out services, where … Read more

The End Of Free Faxing?

What’s up with eFax, also known as j2, the (supposedly) free Internet fax people? I received an email from j2 Global Communications today that said Dear Jeremy, Your account has been suspended and your eFax number 1-973-215-1210 is no longer accepting faxes. If you wish to keep your eFax account, you may upgrade and reactivate … Read more

The Idea of Availability

I can’t remember who I was talking about this to but, stuck at the airport Starbucks again I thought I’d blog my thoughts while they’re not too addled by caffeine. I have Skype, I have Packet8, I have GPRS, I have landlines, I have Instant Messaging. So why is IM the smartest of the bunch? … Read more