Reporters exchanged notes via Skype, believing it to be somewhat less vulnerable to eavesdropping. The first, which was published in 2005 and won a Pulitzer Prize, revealed that the National Security Agency was eavesdropping on domestic phone conversations and e-mail without the legal courtesy of a warrant. Not really, I confessed.

Skype has quickly become an Internet phenomenon, appealing to a broad variety of customers with its instant messaging, video chat, and phone services. In April of this year, eBay announced that it was spinning off Skype as a separate company in an IPO planned for early 2010. When eBay purchased Skype, for $2.6 06-2469.) The

Ebay continues it smart moves in a bid to acquire VOIP boy wonder Skype. As a trumpeted move to enhance the core Ebay experience, the acquisition will no doubt offer an additional pillar business to the company in the same vein as PayPal.

Posted Jul 7, 2005, 7:26 PM ET by Peter Rojas Related entries: Displays, Features, HDTV, Home Entertainment. In doing so, the Supreme Court has set the stage for cable giants such as Comcast to, with impunity, disallow such competitive services as Vonage, Skype, and even perhaps Akimbo, MovieLink, and a host of IPTV services.

Posted Jul 7, 2005, 7:26 PM ET by Peter Rojas Related entries: Displays, Features, HDTV, Home Entertainment. In doing so, the Supreme Court has set the stage for cable giants such as Comcast to, with impunity, disallow such competitive services as Vonage, Skype, and even perhaps Akimbo, MovieLink, and a host of IPTV services.