Tag: VoIP
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VoIP is Dead. It’s just another feature, now
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Andrew Orlowski
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Business-wise, Skype is a basketcase. But that’s just one of the things that makes it one of the most emblematic companies of our time – a real, Ur-Web 2.0 company. Like so many internet companies, Skype has millions and millions of users. Like these internet companies, too, it can’t make very much money off all…
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Spontaneous human combustion: Skype to blame
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Andrew Orlowski
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A Voice over IP service was to blame for a man in Massachusetts bursting into flames at the weekend. The man, David Reed, held an executive position at Lotus in the early 1980s, and was a Fellow at HP Labs. He is said to be recovering from the spontaneous human combustion at MIT Media Lab,…
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Pot, dial kettle: Closed Skype wants open networks
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Andrew Orlowski
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eBay’s proprietary VoIP service Skype wants the Federal Communications Commission to change its rules on how cellular networks operate. It’s demanding that the US regulator extend a 1968 legal decision, which permitted any device to be attached to the AT&T network, to apply to mobile operators. It also wants a new industry body to decide…
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Meg Whitman’s $2.6bn spam goof?
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Andrew Orlowski
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“eBay looks less fearsome when you’re upside down,” says the young CEO behind the online auction house’s great Chinese rival Jack Ma. To encourage new hires at his Alibaba.com, Ma asks them to perform handstands. Maybe that won’t be necessary for much longer, as eBay is a lot less fearsome – and a lot poorer –…