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Skype and Kazaa had changed the net. How?

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I remember Niklas Zennstrom , the mastermind behind Kazaa and Skype, when i read about him at BBC Click Online and discussed how his two inventions came about, and how broadband and wireless devices are shaping his vision for the future. Niklas Zennstrom's software inventions had provoke an explosion in file swapping technology in the world and still there are few people in the world who can claim to have invented something that captured the imagination of hundreds of millions of people. But this man has done it twice. It all started while he was working for the European low cost Telco Tele 2 in the mid-1990s, where he met his friend and colleague Janus Friis , his co-founder of Skype and Kazaa , the world’s most downloaded software, responsible for the most popular software that underpins the FastTrack file sharing network protocol. It was on March 2001, when the duo had created Kazaa and were cashing in on the file-swapping boom kicked off by Napster , a music file P2P porta...

Skype free calls for landline and cellphone

The company that give us free internet calls, Skype users will again be giving away free calls through landline and mobile phones in the U.S. and Canada until the end of the year. Skype which acquired by eBay Inc., last year has built its business on free calls among PCs and other Internet-linked devices using free Skype client software. To be able Skypers reach regular phones from the Skype client, the company offers a paid service called SkypeOu t. With this service, user would benefit and enjoy the following features: Cheap calls to landlines and mobiles. Same call rate everyday of the week - morning or night. Great call quality. SkypeOut starts from as little as €10 . No connection or monthly fees. Details on the process can be found on their site. It guides you on how to set up your calls. Skype is operating over VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) that helped create their target to reach 100 million registered users this month. But Skype is not alone in the fast-growing VoIp ban...

Welcome to Skype Users Philippines

The power of VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) is inevitable and growing rapidly. Several P2P applications have able to come-up with internet telephony such as SIP and IAXs. Today, several big names in internet business likes of Yahoo and Google had already joined the bandwagon. But they cannot surpassed the popularity of SKYPE . Since my first exposure to the internet way back 2002, I've been facinated with all these internet stuff that simplifies our world right in our computer desktop. I have tried to call PC to landline software but it is not yet supported here in the Philippines during those years. The good thing with the developement of Skype by the same mastermind of P2P software Kazaa . is that they have maintained their original business model- giving it for FREE. We'll who doesn't love freebies? Skype if compared with other VoIP clients is that Skype operates on a peer-to-peer model, rather than the more traditional server-client model. The Skype user dire...