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Latest Posts

Skype's post-eBay roadmap

Fellow ZDNet blogger Russell Shaw has an in-depth interview with Saul Klein, Skype's vice president and chief marketing officer, about the new version of Skype, the company's ambitious plans, E-911, personalized Skype, QoS VoIP and PBX intergration and, of course, eBay parenthood. Here's how the marketing chief handled a question on the eBay deal:  Well, one of the new 1.

September 30, 2005 by Dan Farber

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IFPI's update on the illegality of AllofMP3.com

In response to the difficulties I've been having getting my $20,000 whole home audio/video setup to play the 99 cent songs I'm purchasing online, several readers wrote to me about a Russian outfit that they thought was legally selling digital music a la carte without wrapping the music in any digital rights management (DRM) envelopes.

September 29, 2005 by David Berlind

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Cisco's Giancarlo: There's a new computer bus in town

Here at MIT's September 2005 Emerging Technologies Conference, Cisco senior vice president and chief development officer Charles Giancarlo said it's time for a rethink on what a computer is.  Harkening back to a Sun tagline that says "The Network is the Computer," Giancarlo talked about how today's network switches are as fast as the backplanes of the computers that are connected to them, creating new opportunities to disintermediate the computer's bus when connecting processors to storage.

September 29, 2005 by David Berlind

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Best Quotes from Day 2 at EmergeTech

While the people on stage are often rocket scientists and the technical discussions can be extremely dense, MIT's Emerging Technology Conference can be full of great sound bytes and quotes.  Here are some from today:I am great sketpic of video conferencing.

September 29, 2005 by David Berlind

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