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...company has also targeted online commerce, teaming with Internet telephone service Skype to test Internet-based voice authentication that verifies transactions on the fly for the likes of Amazon and eBay. Your plastic may still be vulnerable, says Kramer, but "no one can steal your voice...
...watch a lot of cable TV, why not just go for old-fashioned free broadcast TV? A good set-top antenna can boost your reception. And to cut your telephone costs down to zero, use online tools such as Google Talk or Skype, which let you place free calls from your computer (if whomever you are calling has the proper software). As for Web access, check for free wi-fi in your neighborhood before you pay a lot to go online...
...TIME: eBay has about 157 million users worldwide and Skype will soon have 57 million, but the overlap is only about 1%. How will you combine the two communities...
...WHITMAN: The other figure I'd lay on there is the 79 million people who have PayPal. Maybe we'll introduce every Skype user to a PayPal account, and vice versa, in a thoughtful way. We want to make sure we don't take away from the destiny of each business, but we'd like one plus one plus one to equal five...
...WHITMAN: That's one of the reasons we're excited about Skype. It can create a new way for buyers and sellers to communicate. It actually will help us get into new categories. For example, if you're a web designer, it's hard for you to sell your product on eBay - what you want to do is connect and find out what the buyer wants...