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Yesterday eBay announced that they are going to pay $2.6 Billion for Skype. Thats a lot of cash!
Skype were the pioneers in the VoIP market giving away it’s Client for free to users so they could call each other on the internet with nothing more then a microphone and a set of speakers(mind the feedback loop ).
Google have entered the fray with their own IM and VoIP client called, suprise suprise. Google Talk.
Microsoft have also added VoIP functionality to their Instant Messenger

So now we have three of the biggest companies in the world vying to carry all our VoIP calls (and eventually all our telephone calls too). It should be interesting to see what happens over the next six months or so, expect back biting and masses of marketing.

It’s interesting to own a search engine and be able to place your self in all the target keyword top 10’s. (Try typing “talk”,”VoIP client” and “instant messenger” into Google)

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