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Mangosoft Settles Pending Patent Litigation [Press Release]
Business Wire | 23 days 5 hours 35 minutes ago
MANGOSOFT of Nashua, NH (OTC: BB: MGOF), a developer of Internet-enabling business software solutions, today announced that it has entered into an agreement to settle its pending patent litigation with Skype Technologies SA, Skype Software SARL and eBay Inc. The case, titled Mangosoft Intellectual Property, Inc. v. Skype Technologies, S.A. et al., Civil Action No. 2:06CV-390 TJW, is pending in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. The parties have filed a motion ...
Research and Markets: In-Home Entertainment in the United States Report Reveals Consumers Swap Vacations for Electronics and Other Home Activity Products [Press Release]
Business Wire | 21 days 13 hours 38 minutes ago
Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/13df31/inhome_entertainm) has announced the addition of the "In-home Entertainment in the United States 2008" report to their offering.
Mumbai Terrorists Relied on New Technology for Attacks - NYTimes.com
New York Times, The | 31 days 1 hour 2 minutes ago
MUMBAI, India The terrorists who struck this city last month stunned authorities not only with their use of sophisticated weaponry but also with their comfort with modern technology. The terrorists navigated across the Arabian Sea to Mumbai from Karachi, Pakistan, with the help of a global positioning system handset. While under way, they communicated using a satellite phone with those in Pakistan believed to have coordinated the attacks. They recognized their targets and knew the most dire...
Speaking Freely Creates Memorable Legacy for Sarah Palin. [Press Release]
PRNewswire | 31 days 6 hours 19 minutes ago
ATLANTA, Dec. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- President-elect Barack Obama may have used powerful prose to win the election, but America has decided that it's Alaska Governor Sarah Palin whose words are more memorable.
Mumbai terrorists relied on new technology for attacks
International Herald Tribune | 31 days 1 hour 17 minutes ago
MUMBAI, India: The terrorists who struck this city last month stunned authorities not only with their use of sophisticated weaponry but also with their comfort with modern technology.
Mumbai attackers used sophisticated technology
International Herald Tribune | 30 days 15 hours 8 minutes ago
MUMBAI: The terrorists who struck this city in November stunned the authorities not only with their use of sophisticated weaponry but also with their comfort with modern technology.
OpenCandy Downloads $3.5 Million From Bessemer Venture Partners and O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures [Press Release]
PRNewswire | 57 days 15 hours 38 minutes ago
...developers whose work they admire. It's a unique application of the implicit social...Ciena, Ingersoll Rand, Parametric, Skype, Staples, VeriSign, and W.R. Grace...advocate for putting world-changing technologies on the map. OATV is our effort to bring...
Cisco Goes Consumer
Light Reading | 12 hours 30 minutes ago
5:50 PM -- After talking about consumer electronics and home networking for years, Cisco Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: CSCO - message board) is really taking the plunge this year, as shown by its Media Hub and wireless home audio announcements at the 2009 International CES today. (See Cisco Goes Content Crazy.)
State of the Art - Many Ways to Plug In to Tech Savings - NYTimes.com
New York Times, The | 1 day 5 hours 35 minutes ago
It s a new year, all right, but economically, it still feels a lot like the old one. Seems that everywhere you look, things are being downsized: companies, paychecks, parties, trade shows and on and on. People aren t just tightening their belts; they re punching new holes in them. Writing about tech at times like these is, therefore, sort of a strange job. It entails reviewing products that are often expensive and definitely elective. At first glance, it would seem that spending on electroni...
Cisco Blitzes Consumer, Entertainment Markets
Light Reading | 1 day 12 hours 28 minutes ago
Network equipment manufacturer Cisco Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: CSCO - message board) hopes its expertise in building carrier networks will translate to success in consumer and media markets, with a slate of new products and services that will be shown off this week at the 2009 International CES in Las Vegas.
NEW! Telco in Transition: The Move to 4G Mobility
Light Reading | 10 days 11 hours 36 minutes ago
Third-generation (3G) mobile networks have only recently reached true mass deployment in many countries, yet already the industry is working intensively on the transition to the next generation of mobile -- 4G. This will be a major step in terms of network technologies, services, and industry business models, and will take many years to complete. Significant mass-market rollouts are not expected until toward the middle of the next decade, and much of the future 4G landscape inevitably remains...
Social Media: Your Customer Is More Important Than Ever
ClickZ | 18 days 50 minutes ago
And measuring social media is vital.
Cisco's New Media Workhorse
Light Reading | 8 days 3 hours 10 minutes ago
1:20 PM -- At CES next week, I'm really going to pay attention to the monster chatter. I want to hear what those behemoths like Cisco Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: CSCO - message board) and Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT - message board), who are big enough to influence the service provider community and consumer population simultaneously, have to say about where the networked home is heading and how the networks feeding those homes can help.
2008 Top Ten: Comcastic Moments
Light Reading | 10 days 11 hours 36 minutes ago
As we've come to expect, 2008 was not a year of treading water for Comcast Corp. (Nasdaq: CMCSA, CMCSK). With a hand in everything from Internet "throttling" to Docsis 3.0, here are our picks for the Top 10 "Comcastic Moments" of the year:
100GigE Scorecard
Light Reading | 43 days 14 hours 55 minutes ago
8:55 AM -- Just for laughs, here's a table listing the 100-Gbit/s trials announced this year, including Tuesday's announced project to build real 100-Gbit/s Ethernet capabilities for ESnet and Internet2 . (See Internet2, ESnet Want Their 100-Gig.)
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Company Overview
| Company: | Skype Technologies S.A. |
|---|---|
| Industry: | Messaging, Conferencing & Communications Software |
| Website: | http://www.skype.com |
If you believe the hype, Skype's disruptive technology is revolutionizing phone calling. The minds that created the file-sharing phenomenon KaZaA have taken on the telcos -- Skype Technologies' popular Web-based software allows users to make phone calls using the Internet. Calls are free when made PC-to-PC, and the newer SkypeOut service allows PC-to-phone calling at much lower rates than traditional phone service. Cofounders Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis launched Skype in 2003. In 2005 the company was acquired by eBay in a deal worth about $2.6 billion.
Key Numbers
| Sales in U.S. Dollars (mil.) | 381.8 (2007) |
|---|---|
| One-year % Growth in Sales | 0.0 (2007) |
| Net Income in U.S. Dollars (mil.) | 0 () |
| One-year % Growth in Net Income | 0.0 () |
| Number of Employees | 0 (0) |
| One-year % Growth in Number of Employees | 0.0 (0) |
| Fiscal Year-End | December |