08-17-2007, 10:45 AM
Quote:Skype users in Colombia, Brazil, Germany, Finland and the United States were among the countries unable to use Skype on Thursday, according to reports. What may be most interesting of all to determine will be the impact of the outage on Skype's own employees, who rely on the service themselves for their work communications...
A software problem at Skype left many users of the popular VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) service unable to log in or make calls Thursday, and with little hope for relief until Friday, the company said.
"Some of you may be having problems logging into Skype," the company wrote on its support blog at about 2 p.m. Greenwich Mean Time, or about 10 a.m. Eastern U.S. Daylight time, on Thursday. "Our engineering team has determined that it's a software issue. We expect this to be resolved within 12 to 24 hours...
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