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AT&T Opens up iPhone Skype Calls on its Cellphone Networks

Skype confirmed a report that AT&T is finally allowing iPhone users to make Skype calls over its cellphone network.  This news comes as a big welcome to all the iPhone users who have long wished to make long distance Skype calls on their iPhones. AT&T had not...

Skype to be Blocked in India? Government Wants to Intercept VOIP

The intelligence agencies of India asked the government to block Skype because the VOIP company refuses to share the encryption code that will allow investigators to intercept conversations of suspected terrorists. The Cabinet Committee on Security accepted the...

Ebay Sells Part of Skype for $1.9 billion

Ebay sold 65% of Skype for $1.9 billion to a bunch of private investors, including Andreesen Horowitz and Index Ventures. Hopefully they won't mess with my ability to make really cheap calls on my crappy...

Skype Shutdown Threat over Joltid Licensing

Skype could possibly get shut down over a licensing dispute with Joltid, which developed Skype many years ago. When eBay bought Skype for $3.1 billion in 2005, it did not buy a core element of the underlying...

Update Your Social Networks With One Click

" .fullpost{display:inline;} Make Sharing and Updating Your Bookmarks Networks Much FunAre you kind of persons who like sharing, you have a lot of profiles all over web sharing sites like Reddit, Stumbleupon, Linkedin, an many other and you already have many friends on...

EBay, Skype, Goldman, Morals And Principles

EBay is finally making plans to unwind itself from Meg Whitman’s appalling and astronomically expensive decision to acquire Skype. At the time of the acquisition’s announcements, the financial media, while showing surprise, did little to clarify why such a transaction...

Ebay Seeks Skype IPO

Online trade giant Ebay is unloading Skype, the ubiquitious VOIP/chat client. Ebay is not selling Skype, but is, in a sense, auctioning parts of it off in an IPO (initial public offering) to take Skype public....

Can Skype on iPhone Be Used to Spy on People?

Once Skype is installed on your iPhone, be careful what you say. Apparently, when other callers on Skype ring you up, they could get access to an open channel to any sound being picked up from your iPhone's...

Using Skype to spy on my employees

Don in our office recently installed the Skype app on his iPhone.  The interesting thing that we discovered is that I can now call him on the skype app on my MacBook Pro and access his microphone and hear...

Skype Coming to iPhone: A New Frontier of Free Phone Calls?

Skype is coming to the iPhone, perhaps as soon as next week. Everyone's favorite P2P voice and IM client, which has already been downloaded more than 405 million times, is getting set to release an iPhone version of...

Nokia Handsets Pre-loaded with Skype

Nokia's N97 flagship handset will be pre-loaded with Skype, affording users the VoIP option when making calls.  Though the availability of Skype on certain mobile phones is not new, Nokia's move to pre-install...

Skype Now Available on Winmob Handsets

A new Skype application, that will enable users to access their log-in details, chat and make Skype calls to other users for free right from their mobile phone, has been developed for Windows mobile devices . The...

Google adds video & voice chat to Gmail

Google has added a new service to it's Gmail Chat feature, since this morning it is possible to have video and voice chats with other Gmail contacts. This new feature is a direct threath to eBay's Skype service...

Skype: We didn't know about security issues

" Skype's president said that the company was largely unaware of a major security breach affecting Skype users in China. In a blog published Thursday, Josh Silverman, Skype's president, explained he did not realize that TOM-Skype, Skype's partner in China, was logging and...

China 'spying on Skype messages'

Media censorship is big issue in China and West has been demanding  to free it up. Chinese government control all the information sources incuding Internet. China monitors the content on the internet and...

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