Word: skyping
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Swedish entrepreneurs Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friiss have already shaken the music industry to its roots with their Kazaa file-sharing software. Now Zennstrom, 37, and Friiss, 27, have turned their attention to another industry: telephony. The duo's new creation is known as Skype, and they hope it will do for phone calls what Kazaa, which lets millions of users get songs for free, did for file sharing. Download Skype's software www.skype.com and buy a $15 headset, and you can make free phone calls worldwide to anyone else who has installed Skype. Like Kazaa, the system...
...improving. Zennstrom and Friiss say Skype users will be able to call anyone--non-Skype users included--in 2004. The pair plan to make the business profitable by charging for services such as call waiting, multiple lines and voice mail. More than 2.5 million copies of the basic program have been downloaded since its August release...