--- http://news.com.com/2008-7352-5112783.html Skype's VoIP ambitions December 2, 2003, 1:30 PM PST By Declan McCullagh Niklas Zennstrom may be Sweden's most famous serial entrepreneur. The 37-year-old Stockholm resident co-authored the legendary software used in the Kazaa file-sharing network. After he and his partners sold the rights to Kazaa last year, Zennstrom turned his attention to Joltid, which sells a caching technology to help network providers deal with the growing amount of peer-to-peer traffic. Now Zennstrom and Kazaa co-creator Janus Friis have launched their most ambitious effort so far: Skype, a start-up that hopes to convince people to use voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) technology instead of the traditional phone system. CNET News.com recently spoke to Zennstrom, Skype's chief executive, in Stockholm about VoIP, privacy, security, and the lessons he's learned from his other start-ups. [...] _______________________________________________ Politech mailing list Archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Moderated by Declan McCullagh (http://www.mccullagh.org/)
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