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May 14 2007

Wal-Mart to sell Skype phone gear

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is adding an array of Skype phone gear to the electronics section in 1,800 stores, bringing the renegade provider of cheap calling over the Internet to a huge mainstream audience.
The dedicated Skype section will feature handsets, headsets and webcams designed to work with Skype, a provider of free and very cheap long-distance [...]

Jan 17 2007

Coming soon to Bittorrent: Girls in Bikinis?

Azureus just announced a deal with Bennet Media Woldwide that will allow them to distribute HD shows via their Zudeo.com P2P download platform. From their news release:
“Among the Bennett Media original productions to be featured in HD on Zudeo include Bikini Destinations, The Wild Side, The Extremists, Xotic Xtreme and Snowology. Bennett Media content will [...]

Jan 16 2007

The Venice Project gets “Joost” up

Today marks the official launch of the global broadband television service as well as the debut of it’s new name — "Joost."
Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom, the two Scandinavian entrepreneurs behind KaZaA and Skype, which shook up the music and telephone industry respectively, have formally launched their latest salvo at the television industry.
Previously known [...]

Jan 8 2007

Skype offers phones for Web and conventional calls

Skype, which has popularized Web telephone calling, on Monday marked progress in extending its low-cost calling services beyond computers to new types of phones, the company said on Monday.
At the Consumer Electronics Show here, Skype, a unit of online auctioneer eBay Inc., said it was introducing 12 new phones and related phone accessories in conjunction [...]

Dec 26 2006

Skype to Target Businesses

Skype will continue to aim at the business market, adding functions for specific business needs, executives said last week at the company’s development center in Tallinn, Estonia.
The company’s most recent 3.0 version of its software allows system administrators to configure and control Skype use across an enterprise and Skype will build on that. Its software [...]

Dec 22 2006

“The Venice Project:” a sneak peek with a BETA tester

I have a slew of screen shots and the inside scoop on the cool new creation from the geniuses behind KaZaA and Skype. The Venice Project has begun secretly doling out BETA Tester invites, and I have been fortunate enough to be among them.
Skype and KaZaA co-founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis are at it [...]

Dec 14 2006

Skype’s Free Phone Call Plan Will Soon Have Annual Fee

Skype, the Internet calling service owned by eBay, said Tuesday that as of Jan. 1 it would begin charging $30 a year for unlimited calls to landline and mobile phones within the United States and Canada. Those calls had been free since last spring.
The new annual fee for unlimited calling, while [...]

Nov 9 2006

Problems caused instant messaging, P2P and Skype cost companies nearly $130,000 per year

FaceTime Communications and NewDiligence reported results of their annual survey: Employee Use of Greynets: 2nd Annual Survey of Trends, Attitudes and Impact. The study confirms that employees are continuing to download and use unsanctioned applications to gain new business productivity advantages, while IT managers confirmed greynets continue to be dangerous if left unmanaged and can [...]

Nov 8 2006

Skype 3.0 BETA: a Reviewer’s Guide

A new Skype BETA was released today and boy does it pack a punch. It’s hard to imagine but, Sype is now better than ever.
Skype 3.0 BETA has so many new features that you can tell somebody’s been burning the midnight oil to bring Skype squarely into the world of Web 2.0.
Believe [...]

Nov 2 2006

KaZaA Founders in Internet TV Project

The founders of the popular VoIP program Skype and previously used file-sharing software, KaZaA are working on a new project that might be of interest. They have code named the project “Venice” and have revealed it will be only a matter of months before it is released to the public.
Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom [...]

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