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Google, Skype and the Future of IM

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the nothing-like-a-little-theory dept.

Matt Veenstra sent in a nice little piece of rumor mongering about how Google's new Talk/Jabber/IM thing is just a stepping stone, but it's really just a foreshadowing of their future buyout of Skype. Worth some thought anyway.

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  1. Rumor? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    More Google rumors?

    Stories that I submitted that they rejected:
    • Air Force notifies over 33 thousand Airmen that their personal information is comprimised
    • Serious flaw in CPAINT allows hackers the run malicious code on servers, including Google, MSN, AOL, and more.


    So much for "News for Nerds"
  2. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  3. Why buy skype? by gr8_phk · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    When gnome-meeting is free?

  4. Cool feature I discovered by Will2k_is_here · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I don't know if anyone has mentioned this before but I noticed wrapping your words in asterisks like *this* causes your words to be bolded. I wonder what other undocumented features there are out there.

  5. About GMail... by Roguelazer · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Did anybody else notice that Gmail now supports using foreign "From:" addresses? So I can send mail from my Gmail account that looks like it came from my Comcast accound... Or from a non-existant mailinator account! I wonder what the point of that is? Maybe they're going to add recieving from foreign POP servers, too...

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  6. Re:Another Google buyout? by shokk · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Sorry, I can't hear you. The little elastic strap on your tinfoil hat is on crooked.

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