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Business
Skype Founders Are Trying To Block Skype Sale
4:10AM Jason Chen | The two Skype founders are trying to block the sale of Skype from eBay to Mike Volpi and Index Ventures, claiming that the buyers are using unlicensed means of Skype’s source code to bypass having to pay a royalty to the two founders. It’s all very money/corporate/tech talk, but how it relates to you is what we talked about yesterday: the possibility of Skype buying Gizmo5 in order to power VoIP calls. [GigaOm]
Business
Skype Might Buy Gizmo5 To Power Its VoIP Calling
9:53AM Jason Chen | Skype might have been sloughed off of eBay into its own entity, but lawsuits, regarding its core Skype to Skype technology, might put them in trouble unless it has a backup plan of new VoIP tech. More »
Phones
Asus AiGuru SV1T Skype Videophone Gets A Touchscreen
9:44PM Danny Allen | At the price of a netbook ($US300), the first-gen Asus videophone was more for those wanting to video Skype without a PC (think grandparents). But the navigation was fiddly, so they’ve now made the 7-inch (800×480) display touch-capable. More »
Peripherals
Dumb Microphone-Speaker Mouse Allows You To Pull A Scotty
11:50PM Jesus Diaz | There are many other microphone/speaker combo mice in the market. But as stupid as they are, none of them can be used for making Skype calls and ordering Big Macs, like this dumb “3-in-1 optical mouse”. Scotty lives. More »
Business
eBay Sells Off 65 Per Cent Of Skype For $US1.9 Billion
2:22AM Joanna Stern | eBay acquired Skype back in 2005 for over 3 billion buckaroos, but apparently it wasn’t the best investment. It didn’t seem to know what to do with the internet calling company so it did what it knows best and put it up for auction. It is selling 65 per cent of its stake in the company for 1.9 billion dollars to a small group of VC funds. The deal values Skype at $US2.75 billion. More »
Software
Google Not Blocking Full-Featured Skype From Android Phones
2:00AM Jack Loftus | Google, which will “file comments” in this week’s FCC review of Apple and AT&T’s App Store/Google Voice brouhaha, is itself blocking Skype from being used on Android phones. Whoops! Updated. More »
Peripherals
The Like, Official Skype Headset
7:57AM Matt Buchanan | Everybody’s getting into hardware lately, so it’s not shocking Skype has its own headset. The idea is that it’s cheap (under $US25) and USB powered, so your Skype calls don’t sounded like blended kitties. [Skype via TechCrunch]
Online
Skype 2.8 Integrates Screen Sharing For Better Procrastination
1:30PM Rosa Golijan | Skype 2.8 for Mac, which integrates iChat-style, cross platform/OS screen sharing, Wi-Fi access through Boingo, and improved audio/video quality is out. Seems perfect for sharing amusing pictures while accidentally flashing someone. [Skype 2.8 via ReadWriteWeb via Lifehacker] More »
Software
Month In Windows Mobile Apps: AIM, Skype, Crayons, Compasses
6:00AM John Herrman | Step up your messaging, have fun with physics, watch some weird TV, find your car, call your friends, later incriminate said friends—it’s all in a day’s month’s work for Windows Mobile. More »
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