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Do the numbers lie?
(old news - 01:40PM Sunday Jul 01 2007)
tags: VoIP
Skype continues to grow but that growth remains limited in the United States. Datamation reports on the issue, quoting Skype VP Don Albert as saying that the U.S. is a last frontier for Skype and that growth will continue. Skype gives some fuzzy numbers about that growth, counting in terms of downloads rather than active users. For numbers that might be more accurate, check out this interview with Jean Mercier, author of the Skype Numerology blog.

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supergirl

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Ebay owns it says it all

Ebay, once great, is now nothing but a PITA for legitimate sellers and buyers. Fees are ridiculous. They shove PayPal down their throats. Ebay is going to say anything to make its $3 billion acquisition look "good." Just think, they could have waited and bought Vonage for $500 million.
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ColorBASIC
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Re: Ebay owns it says it all

Or waited a lot little longer than that and bought Vonage for $10.

ColorBASIC
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What's wrong with fuzzy download counts

Counting downloads is how Mozilla fanbois touted the greatness of FF for years.

bmfan
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Skype VP Says Company is Growing

I just signed up for skype a couple weeks ago, its the only "phone" i have. so it grew by one at least....
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crapware

IT's crapware Now

22Mbyte Download

and uses 50+MByte of ram NO Way
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10414459

join:2007-04-23
Key West, FL

Re: crapware

This is just silly. I just checked my task manager and Skype is only using 14 MB, a relative pittance.

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Re: crapware

Click for full size
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elios

join:2005-11-15
Springfield, MO

Re: crapware

40mb is nothing you still running 256MB or ram or some thing?
even with a 1GB of ram 40MB isnt much

bmfan
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my install is 9 megs not 22, and yup it uses around 50 megs of ram. but isnt that why i have ram in my computer so i can use it ? always cracks me up when people carry on about a program using ram, its what they are supposed to do !
now if it was using 50% cpu or something i would bitch.....
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1 Million Users Two Years Ago...

When I started using Skype about two years ago, maybe longer for it was long before EBay, the "...people online" stat at the bottom of the Skype window was about 1.5 Million folks. When, in the middle of a day, the number got up to 2.5 million the service suffered a bit.

Now it's routinely over 9 million and it's been over 10 million users online occasionally. And the service has been flawless.

What kind of growth are they looking for beyond that? 600% or 700% should work.

sumdumgai10000

@comcast.net

Re: 1 Million Users Two Years Ago...

my people online thing also says 9-10m

I too have skype and my wireless phone.... I flipped qwest the bird.

santasingh

@lehman.com

Skype and Land line

I don't have any land line number as of now. How can skype work for me? Does skyple provides its own number?

Appeciate,
Santa
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