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What took them so long? Yahoo has finally figured out that the way to beat Google and others is through leveraging its two core and most important assets: My.Yahoo! and Yahoo! Mail. These are two services that make Yahoo universally recognizable and make it a daily part of millions of lives.
Yahoo! Mail in particular acts [...]

Now that the broadband downturn is over and service providers of all stripes seem to be beefing up their networks, it’s time for the infrastructure survivors to reap the rewards. The latest winner of a bankable vote-of-confidence is cable infrastructure provider Vyyo, which announced Wednesday a $35 million cash infusion from existing investor Goldman, Sachs.

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Skype has released new Skype for Windows version 3.2 (beta). You can download it here. The new software allows you to import contacts from web based email applications such as MSN Hotmail, Gmail and Yahoo! Mail. You can also take your video snapshots and of course send money via PayPal.

The looming VoIP patent mess not withstanding, In-Stat, a market research firm says that 9% of US households were using VoIP at the end of 2006, up by one percent at the end of September 2006. By In-Stat’s estimate, there were about 10.6 million households where at least one member was using some form of [...]

When Democrats took control of Congress last election, the lobbyists for all the big technology and telecom companies in Washington pulled out their wish lists, ripped them up, and re-arranged their legislative priorities.
Gone was the push for sweeping telecommunications legislation, hemispheric-wide free-trade agreements and limitations on Internet taxes. Only a Republican Congress and White House [...]