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  • What will eBay do with Skype?

    eBay has been forced to reassess the value of Skype -- a company it acquired for US$2.6 billion -- not to mention its overall strategy for making money with VoIP.

  • Service lets Skype users go mobile

    For the tens of millions of Skype users worldwide, making calls over the Internet is a free or cheap experience that has the AT&Ts and Verizons of the world wondering how they're going to keep up.

  • Skype's VoIP ambitions

    Q&A Niklas Zennstrom may be Sweden's most famous serial entrepreneur.

  • FBI adds to wiretap wish list

    A far-reaching proposal from the FBI, made public Friday, would require all broadband Internet providers, including cable modem and DSL companies, to rewire their networks to support easy wiretapping by police.

Features and Case Studies (6)

  • Mobile: Skype hungry for next frontier

    Skype sees the mobile market as the next frontier for its service, but economic realities in the voice market -- coupled with mobile operators who feel threatened by Skype -- could put the kibosh on large-scale adoption for some time to come.

  • VoIP wants to cut the computer cord

    Software-based phones are coming to the fore as big changes come to the way people make calls.

  • Phone fallout: Talk is cheap

    In the United States, the shift to low-cost Internet calling has cost the old-line phone giants dearly. Someday, this could happen in Australia.

  • Skype's VoIP ambitions

    Q&A Niklas Zennstrom may be Sweden's most famous serial entrepreneur.

  • BT bets on open development

    BT, long considered a risk-taker in the telecommunications market, has laid a US$105 million bet to open its network to application developers in the hopes of creating innovative voice services. But will other phone companies take a similar gamble?

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