Archive for the 'Skype News' Category

Washington Post 
EBay chief executive Meg Whitman outlined her latest vision for eBay’s future this morning to the 75 or so people who showed up at the glitzy Wynn casino for the company’s 11-minute shareholder meeting.
After routinely electing eBay’s board of directors, ratifying the selection of an accounting firm and passing an amendment to the company’ [...]

 Reuters
Online marketplace eBay Inc. (EBAY.O: Quote, Profile, Research) is set to detail on Tuesday how it plans to combine its Skype Web telephone-call service into its core U.S. auction business, executives said on Sunday.
“We will have some news on Tuesday about Skype,” John Donahoe, president of eBay’s Marketplace unit, told an audience of software developers [...]

 The Observer
The internet is really just a giant machine for springing surprises. And this is - as programmers joke - a ‘feature’, not a bug. That is to say, the net’s capacity to facilitate disruptive innovation was designed into it from the beginning. Essentially, if you can do something with data packets, then the internet [...]

 techblog

Looks like a good thing can never last. Everyone’s favorite VoIP company Skype which is owned by Ebay has just been sued by Net2Phone alleging that Skype has infringed its patent for the placing of calls over the net.
The law suit, filed in the US District court of Newark, alleges that Skype infringed a patent [...]

eitb:
Users who make outgoing calls to and within countries outside the US and Canada will continue to incur per-minute charges.

Skype, eBay Inc.’s Internet telephone subsidiary, has stopped charging users for dialling up people on traditional landline and mobile phones in the US and Canada.
The Internet telephone service, which has always offered free PC-to-PC calls around [...]