(CNN) — Say you were to give Bill Gates a really great present — like the ability to cure crippling diseases or to pick all U.S. presidents for the next 50 years. Gates would like those gifts, sure. But you wouldn’t have granted his one, true wish. The Microsoft-founder-turned-philanthropist said at a recent speech in [...]

Verizon bowed to the inevitable today and officially embraced Skype on its smartphones, starting with Blackberry and Android devices. Verizon customers will now be able to bypass the outlandish international calling rates on their mobile phones and make free Skype-to-Skype calls or use their much cheaper Skype Out minutes instead. Skype’s text IM will also [...]

Founded five years ago, YouTube is now a full-fledged grown-up by Internet standards. Its days as an impulsive startup–replete with a cluttered office located between a pizza parlor and a Japanese restaurant–are long gone; and is incredible growth over the past half-decade has changed how we live, play, and do business. Within a single year, [...]

KARACHI (February 13 2010): Ufone recently launched the first of its kind ‘Awaz Email’, which allows users to send a voice message to any email address anywhere in the world. By launch of this innovative service, Ufone the leader in innovation has once again taken the telecom industry by storm. The customers only have to [...]

Growth at PayPal and its core auction business helped eBay beat analyst expectations for the fourth quarter.Revenue for the quarter was up 16 percent over the same period in 2008, reaching US$2.4 billion, including $112 million from Skype for the period in the quarter that eBay fully owned the company. Analysts were expecting $2.3 billion, [...]