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...scanned?VoIP has also proven a relatively secure means of political networking. There, activists use VoIP to contact each other, take part in conference calls and live debates, and post recorded voice messages via online forums available on the websites of VoIP providers such as PalTalk, Yahoo! Messenger and Skype. "Skype is like a miracle," says Tran Khue, a 70-year-old Vietnamese dissident in Ho Chi Minh City. Khue, who recently got out of jail after serving 19 months for "abusing democratic rights," says he regularly conducts VoIP democracy forums and uses Skype to call sympathizers inside and outside...
...live conversations, when converted to digital bits for transmission on the Internet, are harder than e-mail to search for offensive words. Voice information is generally discarded once a call is over, while e-mail is stored indefinitely on servers, making it easier to trace the authors. Services like Skype also use encryption technology to scramble calls, so eavesdroppers can't decipher what's being said without a software "key" to decode the transmission. There's another benefit, too: in Vietnam's crowded Internet caf?s, it's tough for police to discern which of the mass of headphone-wearing youths...
...praise the company for taking a more principled stance than some of its rivals have. According to a Human Rights Watch report issued last month, Yahoo voluntarily handed over incriminating info that led to the arrest of four Chinese dissidents; Microsoft censored searches and deleted blogs in China; and Skype configured its Chinese software to censor certain words in its chat function...
...Ebay The auction powerhouse keeps expanding its repertoire, allowing users to write blogs and create wikis (collaborative info-banks), and to "Skype" each other about individual items up for bid (i.e. use the Internet telephony service to place voice calls...
...parents' house, you can plug the V-Phone into a PC to make and receive calls and check voicemail. Unlimited calling is $25 per month, plus about $4 in taxes and surcharges. For cheapskates there's a $15-per-month 500-minute plan. Other PC-based phone services like Skype offer comparable calling deals and more freebies, but Skype - like Vonage's previous product SoftPhone - requires software installation to work. When you're not near a PC, it is very easy to forward V-Phone to your cell phone or to another phone line...