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Welcome back to InterrupTech.  Catch up on the week’s most important tech stories in a hurry.  We cover Take Two’s $20M settlement, Apple’s 09/09/09 event, the GMail fail, Skype gets sold, and plenty more. Continue Reading »

*UPDATED BELOW When word broke that eBay was considering selling Skype, Google was the first company to come to mind for many.  Google Voice would be a great fit with the VoIP enabled Skype and hopes became high for a nifty solution and good home for the unit, but Google… Continue Reading »

Internet based device designer and manufacturer IPEVO has announced that 18 USO centers across the Pacific Region will be equipped with its S0-10 Skype Desktop Phone and S0-Wi-Fi Phone for Skype devices. This will allow the over 890,000 troops and their families who use the centers to stay in touch… Continue Reading »

You’ve gotten that call a number of times.  “My computer isn’t working.”  The only problem is explaining how to fix something may take much longer than it would take to actually fix something.  So what can you do to avoid this?  Screen sharing over the Internet is pretty helpful.  Skype… Continue Reading »

The landline telephone is on the way out.  20% of homes are now wireless only.  Maybe you’re part of the 80% who still has a landline.  What can you do to ditch that landline?  Keep reading. First off, unless you want to cut yourself off and try something very experimental,… Continue Reading »

I’m sure any self-respecting Star Trek fan knows this is opening weekend for the latest Star Trek film.  So, in honor of the big weekend, here is a nifty little gadget just for you.  A Star Trek Communicator Internet phone.  Say that five times fast. It is a replica of… Continue Reading »

Imagine you’re the head of a large company with three different divisions.  Two of the divisions work extremely well together, while the third seems strange and out of place.  So you try to sell it, and nobody seems interested in buying, at least nobody with the money you want.  What… Continue Reading »

With the release of Skype on the iPhone, and soon the BlackBerry, Americans have seen the first light of VoIP over on cell phones.  Currently, all VoIP is limited to only Wi-Fi networks for cell phones.  The same is true in Europe, where VoIP has been on cell phones for… Continue Reading »

So many of us are ditching our landlines for alternatives.  Using a cell phone is pretty standard.  However, you may want more minutes for a low cost.  Skype has some very reasonable pricing plans for unlimited calling.  If you use Skype for Skype to Skype calls or to outside lines,… Continue Reading »

Check out the gallery: IPEVO WiFI Phone for Skype (S0-20)

Skype has been quite busy in the past few months.  The company released a new Windows version of the software in February with a lot of improvements.  It partnered with to bring the service to Android, Nokia, and Windows Mobile platforms.  There was even the announcement that the company would… Continue Reading »