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Skype is down, millions are speechless

Skype, the internet telephony service and instant-messaging application, has been non-operational, globally, for the past 24 hours. It’s a massive outage: effectively crippling an entire company which was worth US$2.6 billion when eBay purchased it... ...full story at Lost Laowai

from Lost Laowai on Wed, Sep 05 2007

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