Posted 10/03/08 at 07:06:49 PM by Pulkit Chandna

TOM-Skype, the Chinese chapter of Skype, has been caught filtering and archiving text messages. The Chinese VoIP service provider has eight dedicated servers for storing messages that contain certain politically contentious keywords, according to a report published by The Information War Monitor, a Canadian organization that monitors internet censorship.

Tom-Skype, a joint venture between eBay and China’s TOM Online, also stores the usernames of all those people that exchange messages containing such sensitive keywords. Also, the service provider actively censors any politically sensitive keywords - some as harmless as “milk powder” - in messages. TOM-Skype doesn’t restrict itself to Chinese users but freely records messages and usernames of other Skype users from across the world as well (only those users that exchange "obnoxious" messages with Chinese users). To top it all, all the private data is available publicly as it is hosted on unencrypted web servers.

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Software, Skype, VOIP, china, censorship, messages, tom-skype

Posted 06/23/08 at 11:56:06 AM by Paul Lilly

With 309 million registered users and $126 million in first quarter earnings, it'd be easy to see why some might want to leave well enough alone, but don't expect Skype to remain stagnant. Despite the strong numbers, Ebay investors are into Skype for $2.6 billion, an amount most have since admitted was too much for the five year old company. In a bid for renewed faith for the pricey acquisition, Skype 4.0 will bring some major changes to the table, and you can test drive a beta version right now. Click through to see what to expect from the redesign. 

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Software, Skype, VOIP, EBay, IM

Posted 03/17/08 at 12:49:52 PM by Will Smith

Gather round for a quick lesson in full pranking glory--perfect for use against co-workers, friends, enemies, and everyone else short of Homeland Security. Click the link for a full how-to for this gag!

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Skype, DIY, how_to, prank, april fools

Posted 01/06/08 at 04:30:57 PM by Michael Brown

Sony's new handheld device offers intriguing combo of communication services

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games, blog, sony, Skype, handheld, skypeout

Posted 10/01/07 at 06:46:43 PM by Paul "One4yu2c" Lilly

Samsung delays hybrid HD-DVD/Blu-ray player, Adobe takes on MS and Google, Intel says 'no' to cheats, and even mind reading computers! Are earthlings safe?

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intel, Daily News Brief, Blu-ray, Skype, Adobe

Posted 09/05/07 at 10:59:48 PM by Mark Soper

Every PC and Internet user should be glad that August 2007 is now history: here's why, what we've learned (and have yet to learn) about what went wrong and how to fix it.

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microsoft, sony, Skype, VOIP, windows xp, Windows Vista, P2P, rootkit

Posted 09/04/07 at 10:24:45 PM by Paul "One4yu2c" Lilly

US Department of Defense hacked, MSI and Skype get cozy, first virus celebrates a birthday, and more in today's daily dose of tech news!

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news, Skype, Google, ads

Posted 08/22/07 at 03:12:14 PM by By Mark Soper

Skype's looked in the mirror, pointed fingers and named its own name as the cause for last week's outage.

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Skype, VOIP, P2P, supernode