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...also become one of the most technologically advanced places on the planet. You can use your mobile phone to pay for parking, buy bus tickets or check your children's school schedule. Wi-fi hot spots are ubiquitous, and the nation's most famous start-up is Skype, the Internet phone titan, which eBay acquired for $2.6 billion. That's slightly more than the annual output of the entire Estonian economy 15 years...
...have a budget surplus, and its national debt is shrinking rapidly. Naturally, there are growing pains: the unemployment rate has fallen so sharply, from 14% in 2000 to about 4% today, that businesses are scrambling to find workers. "This is the best time in our history," says Sten Tamkivi, Skype's Estonian operations manager. Skype has 250 people in Estonia and reckons that it will have exhausted the local labor market once it gets to 350. Employers are extra nice. "Every evening I'm almost standing at the door and asking everyone as they leave, 'Did you enjoy yourself...
...glossy, slender body. But if you told me that the Netgear has a list price that's $50 higher than the Belkin, I?d probably reach for the matte-black Belkin instead. In either case you?ll be able to make all the free calls you want to other Skype users, and even pay Skype?s nominal rates to call that more traditional sort of phone - for as long as it still exists...
...first. My biggest complaint is it?s got Google Talk and Yahoo! Messenger, but it?s missing the big one: AOL Instant Messenger. My hope is that this will come along with version 2.0 of the software, and that anyone who buys it will be able to upgrade. Skype users may be upset that it doesn?t have a built-in speakerphone, though for the money, it does come with headphones...
...Mylo may be the best designed Skype phone out there, but $350 means you had better also use it as your iPod, your family photo album and your personal journal. If you are interested in Skype - most popular among expatriates who want to keep in touch with the home soil without going broke - but don?t like sitting in front of your laptop, there are some other Skype phones soon to hit the market...