Skype Aims to Wend Its Way Into Gadgetry With New SDK

VoIP service Skype has had an application interface available for some time, but that API needed the company's desktop software to function. With the new SDK Skype has released, a Skype client can be used with no visible user interface, allowing app and device makers to embed the service more deeply in a wide variety of Internet-connected gadgets.

The top dog in Internet telephony is set to expand its reach with the release of new development software. SkypeKit is aimed at allowing software writers to integrate the Net phone service into a variety of consumer electronics devices and computer software programs.

"For nearly seven years, Skype has revolutionized communications through software that offers not only free voice and video calling, but also low-cost calls to phone numbers anywhere in the world," Skype's General Manager for Platform Business Jonathan Christensen wrote in the company's Developer Zone blog.

http://www.technewsworld.com/story/Skype-Aims-to-Wend-Its-Way-Into-Gadgetry-With-New-SDK-70282.html