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This article is not about technology but rather the resource sharing peer-to-peer technology which have impacted the way technology has evolved. Today, this technology is the most used in the world, in terms of internet bandwidth consumed - about 60%. In the future, P2P will consume about 90% of the world’s internet bandwidth, a situation which most ISP’s are trying to overcome.

Nimbuzz, a relatively unknown Dutch company that claims to have got funding from Mangrove Partners, the original investors of Skype has launched an all-in-one solution for free mobile VoIP calling, conference calling, instant messaging, chat and group chat, and photo and file sending across multiple IM communities, including Skype, MSN, Google Talk, Yahoo!, AIM, Jabber [...]

Geodesic Information Systems had said previously that it plans to extend its software voice over internet protocol (VOIP) suite with the launch of VoIP hardware phones in FY 2008-09. Well, that story has now been confirmed by ET.
 
Is VoIP in India Legal?
Making local calls using VoIP is illegal in India. Users in India can make VoIP-originated outbound [...]

Skype announced unlimited (it’s actually 5 hours a day) calling today to over a third of the world’s population with the launch of its new calling subscriptions. The new subscriptions signal the first time Skype has offered a single, monthly flat rate for international calling to landline numbers in 34 countries.
 
 
Stefan Oberg, VP & GM telecoms at [...]

Here’s a quotation that eBay’s CEO – John Donahoe gave to the Financial Times. “What we’re testing this year are the synergies … If the synergies are strong, we’ll keep it in our portfolio. If not, we’ll reassess it.”
 
 
This indicates that eBay may be looking to sell Skype.
 
 
 
Skype was purchased by eBay 3 years ago [...]

Skype, the premier Internet Messaging service founded in 2003, is about to launch its much awaited 3 Skypephone in the UK on the 2nd of November, 2007 in association with Britain’s mobile carrier ‘3 mobile’. The mobile phone will be launched soon in the UK, Austrailia, Italy, Hong Kong, Sweden, Denmark, Austria and the [...]