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...free voice providers that want to render the industry as they know it obsolete. The biggest threat to the old order is probably Skype Ltd. of Luxembourg, which has attracted more than 405 million customers since it launched software in 2003 that allows free long-distance calls over the Internet. eBay paid $2.6 billion for Skype four years ago because it believed the free voice operator would mesh well with its auction business. It didn't. Now eBay is spinning off Skype in an IPO, after taking a $1.4 billion write-down. Still, Skype is profitable and growing...
...point out one helpful hint for those who have cut back on their movies, newspapers, magazines, books and Internet services? Check out your local library, which still offers all these services to everyone for free. Jackie Siegert, MADISON, MINN...
...Logging on to the Ivy Leagues" [April 27]: Granting degrees to students who qualify through online study is merely acknowledging the actualities of university study today--notes and exams are taken on computers. Grading and advice to students could easily be done via the Internet, and the cost per student would be reduced dramatically. The social-policy aim is the creation of educated individuals. The technology isn't important. John Leone, SAN DIEGO...
Carole Horne, general manager of Harvard Book Store, said that the increased sales tax further tips the playing field in favor of Internet retailers...
...exercise in public participation stumbled when jail officials refused to provide critical pieces of evidence, including surveillance tapes of the detention center. The comments of one provincial propaganda official, Wu Hao, who told the Southern Metropolis Daily that "online public opinion ... is best resolved by the laws of the Internet," further heightened suspicion that the investigation was more focused on controlling public opinion than preventing prison deaths. (See pictures of China on the wild side...