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Soon - Send money via Skype — Soon you will be able to send money via skype with integrated paypal in the new Skype Version 2.5. — Screenshot is from the eBay developers conference 2006 in Las Vegas. — [via]
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:
EBay integrates Skype into auctions — After months of anticipation, eBay announced tonight its pilot integration of Skype, the internet telephony giant it acquired last September for approximately $4.1 billion. The announcement was made tonight at eBay Live!, eBay's annual community conference.
Ken Belson / New York Times:
EBay to Add a Phone Link From Listings to Sellers — EBay said yesterday that sellers on its auction site would be able to add a link to their listings allowing potential buyers to reach them through Skype, the Internet phone service. — The announcement comes nine months after eBay raised eyebrows …
Gizmodo, The Gadget Blog:
Send Paypal Via Skype Soon — The upcoming Skype version 2.5, seen at the eBay Developer's Conference, apparently will let you send or request money to other users directly from the client software. Since eBay, Paypal, and Skype are all one big happy family, you'll be able to Paypal money easily …
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Hiding in Plain Sight, Google Seeks an Expansion of Power — Google is building two computing centers, top and left, each the size of a football field, in The Dalles, Ore — THE DALLES, Ore., June 8 — On the banks of the windswept Columbia River, Google is working on a secret weapon …
Mary Jo Foley / Microsoft Watch:
Scoble The Exit Interview — Microsoft tech evangelist and alpha blogger Robert Scoble talks about everything from his tensest moments at Microsoft, to what Microsoft could have done to keep him, as he prepares to leave the Redmond software maker and join startup PodTech.Net.
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TDavid / Things That:
The Scoblelizer Replacement pool odds — The who will replace Robert Scoble tickle continues with Valleywag weighing in with a few names. Looks like they might do a daily feature on it for a few days. — As I looked over the existing notable and famous Microsofties …
Rafe Needleman / CNET News.com:
Google finally puts Picasa albums on the Web — Google launched a new beta of Picasa on Tuesday [news story]. Its biggest new feature is the capability to post pictures directly from the application to a Google-hosted Web album. It's about time. Picasa has become the PC-based photo manager …
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Microsoft Hardware Advances Digital Communications Experiences — First webcams from Microsoft make seeing, hearing and sharing a breeze. — REDMOND, Wash. — June 13, 2006 — Seeing your grandchild's first steps from miles away. Hearing your friend's laugh from across the country.
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Luca Filigheddu / Thoughts on VoIP, technology:
Thunderbird VoIP — Well, I can really say that Abbeynet Labs is releasing one "toy" after the other! — Following the great success of Firefox VoIP, Abbeynet Labs released today Thunderbird VoIP. — The user experience is almost similar to Firefox VoIP, but in this extension …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Flock Raises New Venture Round, Launches Public Beta — It's been nearly eight months since Silicon Valley based Flock released a developer version of its Firefox based browser. This evening they are releasing their first public beta version, available for Windows, Mac and Linux machines, at Flock.com.
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Sharon Noguchi / Mercury News:
Teens turn away from e-mail — SITES LIKE MYSPACE OFFERING `INSTANT' SOCIAL SCENE, FAST MESSAGING ATTRACT YOUNG USERS, STUDY SHOWS — When she gets home from school, 14-year-old Jennica Paho of San Jose switches on the computer and goes to MySpace.com. ``It's very exciting to get new pictures …
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Read/WriteWeb:
eBay Wiki - world's largest commercial wiki launched — eBay, in collaboration with JotSpot, has just released a new community wiki - making it almost certainly the world's largest wiki platform for a commercial website (Wikipedia is bigger, but it's non-commercial). eBay Wiki is described as …
Matt Casamassina / IGN:
Wii Before PS3 — Sources say Nintendo to launch its new generation console before rival Sony does PS3. — June 12, 2006 - At the Electronics Entertainment Expo 2006 last May in Los Angeles, Sony announced that its forthcoming PlayStation 3 console would debut worldwide on November 17 of this year.
Charlie Demerjian / Inquirer:
Thecus shows five-drive NAS box — Computex 2006 N5200 supplants N4100 — THECUS BROKE COVER on its newest NAS product at Computex, the N5200 NAS box. I looked at the previous N4100 a while ago, and liked it a lot, with a few minor complaints. It looks like Thecus has addressed most of those …
