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Skype's voice and video calling technology will be embedded in upcoming high-definition televisions with Internet capabilities.
EBay has completed its sale of Skype for about $2 billion to an investor group that included the founders of the Internet phone service.
EBay Inc. has settled a legal skirmish with the founders of Skype that threatened to complicate eBay's plans to sell most of the Internet phone service to a group of investors for $2 billion.
The founders of Internet phone service Skype have filed another lawsuit that may put a wrench in eBay Inc.'s plan to sell Skype for $2 billion to a private investor group.
A company owned by the founders of Skype has filed a copyright infringement suit against the Internet phone service and parent eBay Inc. — an action that could crimp eBay's plans to sell Skype for about $2 billion to a group of private investors.
Some computer viruses have a crude but scary ability to spy on people by logging every keystroke they type. Now hackers and potentially law enforcement have another weapon: a virus that can eavesdrop on voice conversations that go over computers instead of a regular phone line.
Rather than enduring the uncertainty of spinning off the Skype telecommunications service through a public stock offering, eBay Inc. has found a different way out: It is selling the majority of Skype for about $2 billion to a group of private investors.
EBay Inc. is developing software it might use to continue running the online telecommunications service Skype if it cannot resolve a legal dispute with a separate company run by the service's founders.
EBay Inc. said Thursday that it expects to remain a "significant" shareholder after spinning off its Internet communications service Skype.
EBay Inc. plans to spin off its Internet communications service Skype through an initial public offering, undoing a $2.6 billion acquisition that puzzled analysts and eBay struggled to justify.
Skype's software for making free and cheap phone calls over the Internet will be built in to some Nokia Corp. smart phones.
Rosie Hardy and Aaron Nace are together for Valentine’s Day, which no doubt thrills their Flickr fans who’ve been following the couple’s 9 ½-month relationship via the photo-sharing Web site almost since the beginning.
Free calls over Skype, the Internet communications service, could be coming soon to the iPhone.
A Canadian researcher has discovered that a Chinese version of eBay Inc.'s Skype communications software snoops on text chats that contain certain keywords, including "democracy."
Skype, the Internet calling subsidiary of eBay Inc., is introducing its first plan for unlimited calls to overseas phones on Monday.
Sony's game unit in Japan will delay rolling out Internet phone service in Japan for its latest handheld game machine because microphones developed for it didn't meet specifications, the company said Wednesday.
Video chats using Skype, eBay Inc.'s popular Internet telephone service, are about to become sharper and more lifelike, at least for those who have high-end new computers and webcams.
News Corp.'s MySpace will offer members of its popular social network free Internet phone calls with a new feature based on eBay Inc.'s Skype service, the companies announced Tuesday.
Skype is introducing a $30 annual subscription to make unlimited calls with the Internet-based telephone service to any regular or mobile phone number within the United States and Canada.
EBay Inc. said Tuesday that it would add a "Skype Me" button to certain categories of listings, allowing prospective buyers to contact sellers directly through the Internet phone service it acquired last year for $2.6 billion.
Net2Phone Inc., which enables cable companies to provide residential phone service, has charged that Internet phone service provider Skype Technologies SA has infringed on its patent on point-to-point Internet calling.
Skype, eBay Inc.'s Internet telephone subsidiary, has stopped charging users for dialing up people on traditional landline and mobile phones in the U.S. and Canada.
Skype, eBay Inc.'s Internet telephone subsidiary, announced a deal Tuesday with music publishers that will make audio clips from artists like Madonna, Green Day and Red Hot Chili Peppers available to its users as ringtones.
Even as the U.S. government is embroiled in a debate over the legality of wiretapping, the fastest-growing technology for Internet calls appears to have the potential to make eavesdropping a thing of the past.
Watching TV Together in Different Time Zones SAN FRANCISCO — For the lonely couch potato, help is on the way. Jessica Acres, who lives outside Indianapolis, watches soap operas with friends elsewhere, discussing them on Skype.
Forget DTV; FCC now planning "all-IP" phone transitionThe writing is on the wall for old school circuit-switched phone networks, and the world is going all-IP. Now, the FCC is gathering data to guide the next major transition of the country's communications network.
Skype: People want total control over mobile phone appsAngry at being barred from some mobile 3G networks by wireless operators, Skype is pushing hard for the FCC to mandate new openness rules for handsets—and it says that public opinion is on its side.
Ten Reasons Why You Should Boycott SkypeGreat post that outlines serious security, privacy, ethical and technical problems with Skype and lists alternatives. "Concentrating a lot of power in one single uncontrolled entity always leads to abuse of those powers, and Skype is not an exception.
Skype, Child Safety & the Worse Case Scenario MentalityI absolutely adore Lenore Skenazy. As I pointed out in my review of her brilliant new book, Free-Range Kids: Giving Our Children the Freedom We Had Without Going Nuts with Worry, she is rare voice of sanity in modern debates about parenting and child safety issues.
Drunken erotic online chat from bathtub sparks call to policeA woman in Aachen was compelled to call the police after her drunken female friend slumped into a bathtub while the two were having an erotic chat online, the authorities reported on Wednesday.
Skype sold for $US1.9 billion to private investorsOnline auction house eBay has sold the majority of VoIP service Skype to a group of private investors in a deal worth $US1.9 billion, following days of unconfirmed reports on the internet.
eBay makes $2bn loss on Skype sale to investorseBay, the internet auction giant, is to sell the bulk of its Skype internet calls business for $1.9 billion to a private investor group that includes one its earliest backers.
Google-AT&T-Apple fight over Net calls draws FCC interestApple (AAPL) and AT&T (T) Friday are expected to tell the Federal Communications Commission why Google's free voice application, called Google Voice, is banned from the Apple iPhone. Google is also filing comments.
The Smoking Gun tracks telephone terroristA TSG investigation unmasks the leader of Pranknet and the miscreants behind a year-long wave of phone call criminality.
Skype could be cut off for good over disputeSkype might have to shut down because of a dispute over the core technology used to make the internet telephone system work.
Skype under threat from eBay licence rowMillions of internet users who use Skype could be forced to find other ways to make phone calls after parent company eBay said it did not own the underlying technology that powers the service, prompting fears of a shutdown.
Antitrust Chief Hits Resistance in CrackdownPresident Obama's top antitrust official and some senior Democratic lawmakers are preparing to rein in a host of major industries, including airline and railroad giants, moving so aggressively that they are finding some resistance from officials within the administration.
Skype Singled Out as Threat to Russia's SecurityRussia's most powerful business lobby moved to clamp down on Skype and its peers this week, telling lawmakers that the Internet phone services are a threat to Russian businesses and to national security.
Pandora and Last.FM MashupRecently, I have become a fan of Pandora Radio, the Internet radio station that discovers music for you. Last night, I stumbled across an open source app for Pandora called OpenPandora.
CTSS - Chat Translator and Speaker for SkypeCTSS for Skype allows you to instantly and in real-time translate your skype chat messages in real-time, as you send them and receive them in 35 different languages. CTSS also speaks both your chat messages and Skype contact status changes as well. CTSS is FREE!
Google has tonight released a new update for it's Mobile App, adding speed improvements for search by voice and support for Australian and British English accents.
eBay spinning off Skype, IPO coming in 2010Having failed to realize the synergies it hoped for after buying Skype for $2.6 billion in fall 2005, eBay has decided to spin it off via an IPO next year.
eBay Plans IPO for Skype in 2010Just 24 hours after divesting itself of StumbleUpon, eBay is making a much bigger but much anticipated move: announcing plans to spin-off Skype (Skype reviews) as its own, public company. According to eBay, the IPO will "be completed in the first half of 2010."
Skype 'Stand-Alone' Push Sounds Like a LineEBay's statement Tuesday that Skype can maximize its potential as a stand-alone public company sounds like the claim someone makes to their romantic partner when they want to break up.
Skype Founders Seek to Buy It Back: Why eBay May Say YesSkype (Skype reviews), the popular peer-to-peer digital calling service, may be in the hands of new owners soon: its original owners.
Bride and Groom Come together thousands of miles apart (Video Report)DENVER - It's the day every little girl dreams of: their wedding day. But chances are Shannon Emerson never dreamed it would end up happening this way.
Group Prods FCC to Defend Skype on iPhoneAn open-Internet advocacy group asked the Federal Communications Commission Friday to investigate whether Apple Inc. and AT&T Inc. are violating federal rules by limiting use of a new low-cost Skype voice service on iPhones.
FCC Pressed to Investigate Apple, AT&T Regarding Skype Over 3GConsumer activist group Free Press has asked the FCC to investigate AT&T's refusal to allow Skype to access its wireless network on the iPhone, instead restricting it to WiFi.
Skype Brings Cheap Web Calling to Mobile Phones - NYTimes.comSkype, the Internet calling service that has more than 400 million users around the world, is aggressively moving onto mobile phones.
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