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Update: This news is now official. Online telephony service Skype will be sold by eBay to a group of private investors, possibly including Netscape founder Marc Andreessen's new venture capital

A new study commissioned by the European Union has finally proven what many have suspected all along: internet users don't want to pay for content. Period. And nothing is going

Until today, Dyyno was probably best known for powering the video back-end of popular gaming portals like Xfire or Outspark, where hundreds of users stream live videos of their gaming

EBay is working on software to replace the guts of Skype but is worried that it may not succeed, may lose a court battle with Skype's founders over rights to

Tonido has reviled the whole concept of cloud computing, calling it an "anomaly... in the natural order of things." In an age when virtual computing, cloud server technology, netbooks, and

On the internet, data lives forever. Once you post something to the web, you see, you simply can't take it back. Many people have had to learn this lesson the

Not too long ago, after the demise of Napster, Kazaa became synonymous with P2P file sharing. After a number of costly lawsuits and failed attempts to appease the music industry,

In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup - our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week - we analyze the continuing popularity of Apple's App store, question the longevity

Bill Tancer, Hitwise GM of Global tweetmeme_url = 'http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/one_time_in_bandcamp_challenging_myspace_music.php'; tweetmeme_source = 'rww'; Research recently wrote about MySpace's departure as a top traffic generator for entertainment and music sites. Says Tancer,

According to The Leading Question's recent research tweetmeme_url = 'http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/18_streaming_music_resources.php'; tweetmeme_source = 'rww'; report, as many as 65% of UK teens are streaming music on a monthly basis. Meanwhile, file-sharing