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Microsoft patent points to Skype snooping
Register
By Bill Ray • Get more from this author A new Microsoft patent points
towards Skype becoming equipped for lawful interception, which could be
important as the service grows up to challenge traditional telcos. The
patent was filed back in 2009, ...
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Enterprise, Consumer Video Conferencing Converge
InformationWeek
Skype, Google Talk, and other consumer systems can connect with
corporate-grade video conferencing systems from Cisco, Polycom, and others
via Blue Jeans Network's cloud-based service. By Robert Mullins
InformationWeek Start-up Blue Jeans Network has ...
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Does it pay to be bad? Silver Lake's Skype sale fine print
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By Tim Worstall • Get more from this author We knew there had to be
something evil when Microsoft was involved but in this story of the
purchase of Skype it isn't actually the Evil Empire of Redmond, at least
not according to Reuters journo Felix ...
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/29/silver_lake_private_equity_rather_than_vc/>
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Go ahead, Skype your Congressman
Poynter.org
by Al Tompkins Published June 29, 2011 4:44 am Updated June 29, 2011 4:42
am US Congressmen may now use Skype and ooVoo to talk to journalists and
anybody else. A Congressional committee that oversees technology on Capitol
Hill has overturned a 2006 ...
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Boot up: smartphone bubbles, Google+ v Skype?, what Twitter's founder did next ...
The Guardian (blog)
I still keep my Facebook account live, mainly to keep in touch with friends
overseas and family. But both services are now effectively irrelevant as
far as I am concerned. Email, Skype, phone calls and text messaging are my
main communications channels ...
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'Skype sex' cadet to sue Defence department
Ninemsn
By ninemsn staff The teenage air force cadet involved in the "Skype sex"
scandal is preparing to sue the Defence Department after her medical files
were allegedly given to an inquiry officer without her consent. Known only
as "Kate", the 18-year-old ...
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Skype to launch iPad 2 app soon
FierceMobileIT
Skype is expected to release a dedicated app for Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL)
iPad 2, but it's unclear just when. A video of the app leaked out on
YouTube and was quickly pulled, and meanwhile Skype officials say the app
should be coming soon. ...
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Watch 'Bachelorette' Ashley Hebert Skype With Jimmy Kimmel About “Satan ...
OK! Magazine
Jimmy asked Ashley on Jimmy Kimmel Live! via Skype. “I think for the
first time, they really showed what he was doing,” Ashley replied from
her home. “I don't remember an exact moment in the conversation, but he
would always go back and forth between ...
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Silicon Valley Wakes Up to Clawback Culture
BusinessWeek
By Bobbie Johnson There's been a storm over Skype ever since former
employee Yee Lee let rip accusations that company investor Silver Lake
Partners had screwed employees over in Skype's $9 billion sale to Microsoft
. Specifically, Lee was upset to ...
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Skype Employees Were Briefed in Plain English — The Internal Equity Incentive ...
All Things Digital
I have largely stayed away from opining about the he-said-he-said over what
or what not Skype employees were told about the treatment of their stock
options. Some employees are alleging they were duped via complicated
legalese and double-talk in ...
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