I feel bad for Skype, well as much as I can feel bad about any business that was just purchased for a sum I will never see in my life. 8.5 billion in cash. the company has been passed around a lot. it seems the service is great but the marriage had its problems.  And to be honest ebay always seemed like the wrong fit for a telephony company.

Working with and being part of Microsoft could be a fantastic transition for Skype. between skype coming to Kinect, Xbox and windows mobile platforms. It does leave the support for the software on other platforms in doubt. Not that a company with Microsoft’s footprint couldn’t do it but rather that any delay will be seen as a slight.

Being that I’m nto a heavy user of the service I won’t be using any sleep but I honestly hope for good things for Skype.

Microsoft Buys Skype

Tags: buyout, ebay, Google, Microsoft, skype

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A fun episode with lots of good and shiny articles, We cover topics from how to wash your bling to horrible and beautiful design. Dogs and Cats living together… The wonder of a good cup of tea and how technology and process affect the coffee you drink. Plus we make a couple of horrible puns as per usual along the way, how can you not be excited about that?

Tags: android, apple, blackberry, bling, Cats, Coffee, confluence, darpa, dogs, DRM, hp, iphone, leica, live, Nasa, Netflix, palm, Podcasting, skype, Sumatran coffee, Tea, ufo

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Plenty of bits of random interesting detris littered their way across my feed reader, lego dinosaurs. Mario, Batman, and The search for ET all show up in this episode so pay attention. Not to mention a wonderful coffee section, listen in for how to get free coffee!

Tags: Batman, dinosaur, free coffee, Google, latitude, Lego, peets coffee, robot, skype, Steampunk, totallycooltech, TV, Uzuri