After talk arose this week about potential suitors for Skype, the popular (but debt-ridden) voice and video communications service, the news arrived that Microsoft would be acquiring the company for a whopping $8.5 billion, all cash. This happens to be the largest transaction ever for the fading software giant. That Microsoft’s stock price dipped after […]

Do you remember how it was back in those quieter times? You could have any telephone you wanted, so long as it came from Ma Bell, and, aside from some local carriers in smaller communities, they also provided your telephone connection. You also paid an arm and a leg in terms of the percentage of […]

I should have known it. I had my suspicions. but I decided to check it out anyway, but I’m getting ahead of myself as usual. Perhaps you’ve heard: AOL is joining the Internet phone service game with its own variation on the theme. You see, AOL is hemorrhaging members even as we speak, with millions […]