Word: skyping
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...digital TV, video on demand, e-health and education initiatives, and a host of as yet undreamed of applications. "It will open the floodgates for entrepreneurs," says telecommunications analyst Paul Budde. "I think I'm pretty good at what I'm doing, but I never would have predicted Facebook, Skype or YouTube. The same will apply here...
...even telecom service and equipment suppliers that are prospering have reason to be worried, knowing they are in the crosshairs of 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...
...Skype's popularity underscores the fact that even wireless providers who consider themselves leading edge are increasingly viewed as utilities that provide a basic service like water or power. What matters most to users is the latest iPhone or BlackBerry with the sleekest applications. These added pressures to the customer base and bottom line may turn out to be for the telecom industry what the automobile was to the horse. Skype co-founder Niklas Zennstrom predicts that in less than a decade, telcos and cablecos will be on the bottom of the telecom food chain, faceless operators of low-value...
...world—suffered major production setbacks, laid off half of its employees, and came under heavy fire for supposedly misjudging the needs of youth in the developing world from the get-go. Talking heads on all continents profess communities need fresh water and malaria nets before Skype and Wikipedia. After all, there are 2.5 billion people on the planet living on less than $2 per day. They need the bare necessities—and you can’t eat pixels...
...determined to dislike the French from the moment I stepped into the living museum that is Paris. After a week of spontaneous picnics in the Jardin du Luxembourg, afternoon jogs beneath the Eiffel Tower and walks at dusk across the Pont Neuf, I told my dad over Skype that Paris would be the most amazing place in the world if we could just get rid of the French. He suggested that such negativity was perhaps not the key to optimizing my experience, so I tried hard to change my tune. Yet, amidst the riddling systems that structure quotidian life...