February 2005

NEW YORK, NY and ROMANEL-SUR-MORGES, Switzerland — Xandros, the leading developer of easy-to-use Linux solutions, and Skype, the Global Internet Telephony Company™, today announced an agreement to bundle Skype with the Xandros Desktop Operating System and promote low-cost Xandros Linux desktops and laptops with Skype Internet calling.

"Xandros and Skype offer products that both reduce costs and improve quality for consumers," said Niklas Zennström, Skype CEO and co-founder. "Xandros-based computers, which sell for as low as $200 (USD), are expanding the market for technology and we’re thrilled to join a leader in the Linux market and together grow the global base for modern technology and Skype."

"Our users want the latest features including VoIP," said Andreas Typaldos, Xandros CEO. "Skype delivers secure, crystal-clear Internet telephony, plus it's simple to use, which makes it a perfect fit for our desktop solutions."

The co-marketing agreement will allow for mutual product promotion. Xandros will include SkypeOut vouchers with its latest SurfSidetm Linux suite, as well as with Xandros desktops and laptops sold through Walmart.com, Amazon.com, and other channels. SkypeOut is the pre-paid, premium offering that allows Skype users to call traditional phones around the world at local rates. Xandros customers will receive vouchers worth up to 120 minutes of SkypeOut calls. Skype to Skype calls are free for all users.

Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

About Xandros

Founded in 2001 with headquarters in New York and research and development facilities in Ottawa, Xandros, Inc. is the leading developer of easy-to-use Linux solutions targeting home and enterprise markets. Xandros pioneered a low-cost alternative operating system that provides seamless compatibility with Microsoft Windows programs and networks. For more information please visit www.xandros.com

About Skype Technologies S.A.:

Skype, the Global Internet Telephony Company™, allows people everywhere to make free, unlimited, superior quality voice calls via its award-winning innovative peer-to-peer software for Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, and Pocket PC platforms. Skype is available in 20 languages and is the fastest growing voice communications offering worldwide. Since its launch in August 2003, Skype has been downloaded more than 54 million times. Skype Technologies S.A. is headquartered in Luxembourg and is growing its offices in London and Tallinn. Skype Technologies is privately held and backed by top tier international venture capital firms, including Bessemer Venture Partners, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Index Ventures, and Mangrove Capital Partners. www.skype.com

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3GSM World Congress, Cannes — February 14, 2005 — Motorola, Inc. (NYSE:MOT), a global leader in seamless mobility, and Skype Technologies S.A., the Global Internet Telephony Company™, today announced their intention to work together on a co-marketing collaboration that will provide greater connectivity options and access for Skype’s more than 25 million registered worldwide users.

The alliance will explore opportunities broadly across both companies, leveraging Motorola’s strength in seamless mobility, advanced technologies, mobile devices and accessories and Skype’s rapidly-growing global user base and rich voice and messaging communication tools. The initial focus of the collaboration will be on co-marketing of new optimized Motorola ‘Skype Ready’ companion products, such as Bluetooth® headsets, dongles, and speakerphones, as well as delivery of the Skype Internet Telephony experience on select Motorola mobile devices

“By making Voice over IP truly mobile and easily accessible, we can make communications seamless for consumers as they travel throughout the environments of their day — at work, at home, in the car, or out in the world,” said Liz Altman, vice president of business development, Motorola Mobile Devices. “With over 68 million downloads of their client in the last 18 months, we believe Skype is a natural fit with our vision of simple and seamless connectivity for our consumer customers around the globe.”

“Our alliance with Motorola is a major step forward in delivering the Skype experience to a whole new base of mobile device and accessory users,” said Niklas Zennström, Skype CEO and co-founder. “Motorola is recognized worldwide for delivering innovative products and this collaboration advances our mission to offer expanded choice and mobility for Skype users worldwide.”

Skype takes communications to a new and global era with its free, multi-faceted and rich communication tools, enabling users to make free voice calls and rich messaging connections via the Internet. Skype is the leading VoIP-category product worldwide, with more than 25 million registered users.

Motorola ‘Skype Ready’ companion products are expected to be available in the first half of 2005.

About Motorola, Inc.

Motorola is a Fortune 100 global communications leader that provides seamless mobility products and solutions across broadband, embedded systems and wireless networks. In your home, auto, workplace and all spaces in between, seamless mobility means you can reach the people, things and information you need, anywhere, anytime. Seamless mobility harnesses the power of technology convergence and enables smarter, faster, cost-effective and flexible communication. Motorola had sales of US $31.3 billion in 2004. For more information see www.motorola.com.

About Skype Technologies S. A.

Skype, the Global Internet Telephony Company(TM), allows people everywhere to make free, unlimited, superior quality voice calls via its award-winning innovative peer-to-peer software for Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, and Pocket PC platforms. Skype is available in 20 languages and is the fastest growing voice communications offering worldwide. Since its launch in August 2003, Skype has been downloaded more than 67 million times. Skype Technologies S.A. is headquartered in Luxembourg and is growing its offices in London and Tallinn. Skype Technologies is privately held and backed by top-tier international venture capital firms, including Bessemer Venture Partners, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Index Ventures, and Mangrove Capital Partners. www.skype.com

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Luxembourg, 10th February, 2005 - Today, i-mate™, industry innovators of wireless device solutions, and Skype Technologies, S.A., the Global Internet Telephony Company™, announced the first wireless mobile handsets preloaded with Skype software.

Newly manufactured i-mate™ PDA2K and i-mate™ PDA2 handsets will be produced with Skype’s award-winning software preloaded, enabling i-mate™ owners to use Skype immediately on start-up of their device. Both handsets are dual mode GSM/GPRS Wifi handsets that, with Skype included, allow users to make free, superior quality voice calls wherever they are worldwide. Skype software will also be installed on new i-mate™ JAMs.

i-mate™, an exhibitor at the 3GSM World Congress, will host a press and industry briefing on its agreement with Skype at a function aboard the i-mate™ corporate yacht in Cannes on the evening of 14 February, 2005.

i-mate™’s founder and chief executive, Jim Morrison, commented: "In line with our continuing commitment to provide customers with the value added benefits they require, this partnership with Skype is a natural way for i-mate™ to deliver to its customers a fully functional global VoIP service. As i-mate™ grows across the world we are dedicated to meeting our customers’ needs in providing them with only the best available services, Skype, we believe, is one of those."

"Skype is committed to working with like-minded companies to innovate and expand platform choice and communications mobility for all our users," said Niklas Zennstrom, Skype CEO and co-founder. "Our partnership with i-mate™ is a step forward for offering Skype on a variety of wireless-enabled devices."

The VoIP market is growing rapidly, as individuals and enterprises demand new communication options at reduced prices. i-mate™ handset owners now have the ability to make voice calls over the Internet through Wireless LAN for a fraction of the cost of a traditional phone call.

i-mate™’s global headquarters are in Dubai, and it is steadily building on its Middle Eastern market leadership with recent expansion into the UK and Italy, and with plans underway for the US i-mate™ launch.

i-mate™’s recently launched devices including, the i-mate™ SP3, i-mate™ PDA2k, i-mate™ SP3i and i-mate™ JAM have received rave consumer and trade reviews.

See an i-mate™/Skype demo at the i-mate™ booth, hall 2, stand D43 at 3GSM World Congress, Cannes, 14 -17 February 2005.

About i-mate™

Founded in 2001, Carrier Devices - owner of i-mate™ - has become one of the world’s leading specialists in collaborative design and development, and the integration of innovative, fully certified, wireless hand held devices and accessible services for the world mobile market. In February 2003, the company launched the first worldwide standard accreditation and certification service for mobile applications and devices. The i-mate™ range of devices offers a full Microsoft(R) suite of applications such as email, internet, MP3 player and Instant Messenger. With their unique blending of voice and data, i-mate™ powerful and expandable devices maximise the user’s ability to display information, be organised and stay-in-touch worldwide. For more information on i-mate™ and our product and services range, please visit www.imate.com and www.clubimate.com.

About Skype Technologies S. A.

Skype, the Global Internet Telephony Company™, allows people everywhere to make free, unlimited, superior quality voice calls via its award-winning innovative peer-to-peer software for Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, and Pocket PC platforms. Skype is available in 20 languages and is the fastest growing voice communications offering worldwide. Since its launch in August 2003, Skype has been downloaded more than 67 million times. Skype Technologies S.A. is headquartered in Luxembourg and is growing its offices in London and Tallinn. Skype Technologies is privately held and backed by top-tier international venture capital firms, including Bessemer Venture Partners, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Index Ventures, and Mangrove Capital Partners. www.skype.com

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Hong Kong – 6 February 2005 – Skype, the Global Internet Telephony Company™ and Hutchison Global Communications Limited ("HGC"), the operator of the largest fibre-to-the-building network in Hong Kong, today announce a partnership to promote and deliver Skype software to the Hong Kong market.

HGC is the first Fixed Telecommunications Network Services ("FTNS") operator in the world to have reached a co-branding agreement with Luxembourg-based Skype Technologies S.A. Under the agreement, the two partners will bring Skype to Hong Kong through a co-branded "HGC-Skype" portal, which is scheduled to be in service in March 2005.

The Skype deal is another initiative by HGC to realise its partnership strategy, following the company’s recent broadband/pay TV collaboration announcement. In delivering "multi-play" applications and content, HGC selects to partner with leading service providers. Through such cooperation, the potential of HGC’s top-notch optical fibre network is fully unleashed.

Skype takes communications to a new and global era with its free, multi-faceted and rich communication tools, enabling users to make free voice calls and rich messaging connections via the Internet. Skype is the leading VoIP-category product worldwide, with more than 24 million registered users, and more than 130,000 new users joining per day.

Peter Wong, Chief Executive Officer of HGC, said, "Being a full fledged telecommunications service provider, we launch ‘HGC-Skype’ to cater for the communications needs of tech-savvy users. We always partner with leading service providers, and Skype is no exception. Our cooperation will bring ‘Skype mania’ to Hong Kong."

"We are very pleased to join with market-leader Hutchison and are honoured that HGC has recognised Skype’s leadership and commitment to innovation," said Niklas Zennström, Skype CEO and co-founder. "We expect our new partnership will prove a powerful combination for the future of Internet telephony."

To celebrate the launch, the first 500 users who successfully download Skype at the "HGC-Skype" portal <http://skype.hgcbroadband.com> from March 2005 will enjoy a free trial of HGC’s Wireless Broadband service at select popular shopping malls and restaurants until 8 May 2005. For more details, customers should call the HGC 24-hour Customer Service Hotline on 1222.

Leveraging the strength of P2P technology, the "HGC-Skype" portal will deliver superior quality voice communications to its users. The "HGC-Skype" portal will offer Hong Kong users free and unlimited Skype-to-Skype voice calls worldwide and the pre-paid SkypeOut service, which enables users to call any fixed or mobile phone in the world at special rates. Skype calls are end-to-end encrypted for superior privacy.

Other features available at "HGC-Skype" include:

• A Global Directory - a user-built global contact directory with numerous search options and an easy add-a-contact tool


• Instant messaging – with cross platform messaging ability


• Conference calling – instantly create a free five-party conference call


• Logs – reference or discard call and message history


• Presence – easily manage availability and view status of contacts


• Customization – MyPicture image display, ring tones, call alert options


• File transfer – to send and receive files


• Mobility – sign in to a Skype account anywhere in the world


• Multiple Skype accounts on one computer

Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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Luxembourg 1 February 2005 - Skype, the Global Internet Telephony Company™, today announced the availability of its feature-rich Skype for Mac OS X Version 1.0 and Skype for Linux Version 1.0 software applications, enabling high-quality voice calling via the Internet for multiple computer platforms. Skype is the leading VOIP-category product worldwide, with more than 23 million registered users, and more than 130,000 new users per day. Skype products for Linux, Mac OS X, Windows and Pocket PC platforms are free and available for download at www.skype.com.

Previously available in beta versions, Skype for Mac OS X and Skype for Linux software includes free Skype to Skype calling and conference calling for up to 5 participants, cross-platform communications, rich presence and personalization features, and the pre-pay SkypeOut service, allowing users to call any landline or mobile worldwide for the price of a local call.

"We encourage all Mac OS X and Linux users to experience the cost and quality gains with version 1.0 Skype software," said Niklas Zennström, Skype CEO and co-founder. "We thank all those who downloaded the beta products as we were developing; your support has been fantastic. We will remain committed to innovation and will continue to expand platform choice."

Skype for Mac OS X V 1.0 and Skype for Linux V 1.0 features include:

• Skype's Global Directory - the user-built global Skype contacts directory with numerous search options and an easy add-a-contact tool


• Instant messaging – cross platform messaging ability


• Conference calling – instantly create a free 5-party conference call


• Logs – reference or discard call and message history


• Presence – easily manage availability and view status of contacts


• Customization – MyPicture image display, ring tones, call alert options


• File transfer –send and receive files via Skype


• Mobility – sign in to a Skype account anywhere in the world


• SkypeOut –pre-pay to call traditional phones around the world, at local rates


• Multiple Skype accounts on one computer


• End-to-end encryption for superior privacy

Skype for Mac OS X System Requirements

Skype for Mac OS X 1.0 requires a Macintosh computer with Mac OS X v10.3 or newer, a G3, G4, or G5 processor, a minimum 400 MHz processor, 128 MB RAM, 20 MB free hard drive disk space, sound card, speakers, microphone and an Internet connection.

Skype for Linux System Requirements

Skype for Linux 1.0 requires a computer running at least a 400 MHz processor, 128 MB RAM,10 MB free hard drive disk space, sound card, speakers, microphone and an Internet connection. Skype for Linux 1.0 has been successfully been tested on many recent distributions, including, but not limited to: SuSE 9, Gentoo 1.4, Debian "unstable", Fedora Core 2, Sun Java Desktop System Release 2 and Xandros. It should run on all distributions that have the required versions of glibc and Qt libraries available. Skype for Linux 1.0 supports both KDE and Gnome desktop managers.

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