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Skype Founders Stalled eBay's Re-Sale Deal to Get in on the Action

In October, we reported that Skype's founders were suing eBay--which acquired the VOIP service in 2005--over a snippet of code that, they say, wasn't part of the Skype acquisition. The suit gained notoriety for its astronomical ...READ»

Viral Loop Chronicles Part 1: Forget Everything You've Heard About Book Publishing

Forget Everything You've Heard About Book Publishing

Most people have a vision of publishing that ceased to exist years ago: writers of yore traipsing bookstore to bookstore across America to offer readings and scrawl inscriptions to the handful of strangers who bothered to show up. It sounds so quaint. Alas, today's publishers have little patience for such low-yield marketing efforts. [Viral Loop Chronicles Part 1]READ»

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Cisco Spends $3 Billion To Beef-Up Teleconferencing

Cisco Systems is making a bid for Norwegian video-conferencing firm Tandberg--it's a move to consolidate its teleconferencing strengths, but it's coming at a steep price: $3 billion in hard cash.Tandberg is a "global leader in video ...READ»

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Will the Skype Founders Actually Win $75 Million Per Day From eBay?

Earlier this week we reported that the founders of Skype were filing suit against eBay over a piece of programming code they allege the auction site is using without permission. They're asking $75 million in damages for every day that ...READ»

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Skype Founders Sue eBay for $75 Million Per Day

The ever-litigious founders of Skype, Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom, are suing former majority stakeholder eBay at a rate of over $75 million per day for what they say is theft of intellectual property. The companies that are ...READ»

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Skype Sold for $1.9 Billion, Back in Private Hands

Skype's management just announced that the rumors are all true: Ebay is selling Skype, and the paradigm-breaking VoIP company is back in private hands. What'll this mean to the millions of Skype users? Not much. Skype's president ...READ»

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Psychology of Technology: The Evolution of Connectivity

Have you ever thought about how far we’ve come in our ability to connect with others and how far we’ll go? I’ve been thinking a lot about connectivity recently and have always found that looking back to where we came from can help us better understand where we are today and, more importantly, where we may be going in the future. Consider the evolution of connectivity. We officially became homo sapiens approximately 200,000 years ago. With the emergence of sophisticated language, we were able to communicate with each other face to face in a way that allowed for the emergence of civilization as we now know it. Of course, this connection was limited to, well, shouting distance, but it was a start. READ»

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Is 3jam Better Than Google Voice?

You've probably heard a lot about Google Voice since Apple punted it from the iTunes App Store: It's a free telephony service that allows one phone number to ring all your phones. It also lets you receive and send SMS messages on your ...READ»

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Why Is Apple Stifling Google Voice for iPhone? [Updated]

Google's amazing Voice may be changing the whole telephony game, and it's happily rocking on BlackBerrys and Android phones. But you won't see a Voice app on the iPhone, since Apple's officially killed it. Speaking to TechCrunch, a ...READ»

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Skype Set to Go Public

According to the Associated Press, eBay plans to jettison Skype from its corporate holdings by holding an initial public offering for the company in the first half of 2010. Ebay paid $2.6 billion for Skype in 2005, confusing analysts ...READ»

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Skype for iPhone Out Tomorrow, Guess Which Features are Missing

It's been a long time coming, but Skype's voice-over-IP service is finally coming to the iPhone tomorrow, and a Blackberry client will be out in May. But before you leap with joy, thinking "the future of cheap mobile comms has ...READ»

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Skype’s New Visual Voicemail Definitively Proves That Talk is Not Cheap

    Leading VoIP provider Skype announced today that it's working with SpinVox to launch a voice-to-SMS messaging service. But if you’ve got chatty friends and family (Hi, Mom and Dad!), be prepared to pay ...READ»

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Asus Planning Skype Video Phone

It's getting increasingly difficult to make fun of Asus [TPE:2357] for its incredible fecundity, simply because it keeps coming up with good ideas. The latest is a Skype-certified [EBAY] video phone that looks simple enough for ...READ»

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Philips Portable VoIP Phone For Those On the Go

I wrote several months ago about a device called MagicJack. It's a VoIP adaptor for those looking to use their own home phones as a VoIP phone. I got a lot of emails from people stating that they were looking for a more portable and ...READ»

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