Business

30 percent of Skype’s users are businesses, and the Business Control Panel is a handy way for them to manage Skype credit and SkypeIn numbers. The trusty panel now knows some new tricks:

— Easily invite co-workers (using a company email list)
— Create a members directory so employees know who else belongs to the same company
— View itemized call reports for your members
— Purchase up to €1,000 of Skype credit at once
— Automatically top-up your Control Panel credit balance

Read Scott Davison’s fresh post on the Skype Business blog for details on these new features.

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The weekend is nigh and you’re probably cherishing the thought of sleeping in on Saturday. Then again, you could be a selfless and dutiful Eastern European male who knows about International Women’s Day and will wake up early to get your significant female other some flowers and cook her a proper breakfast.

In any case, I wanted to draw your attention to a nice piece by our UK blogger Peter. Inspired by a this week’s Wall Street Journal article on businesses that banish useful and cool technologies, he’s linked the issue to a Guardian story on the experimental spark that has led a couple of big firms to attempt morphing the monster known as corporate IT policy into a cute little puppy.