It’s been nearly 20 years since I last used a pager, but there are still times that I miss its simplicity. Hardware hacker and medical doctor Philippe Cadic wants to bring them back, albeit with some more modern functionality. Dr. Cadic is the driving force behind SnapOnAir, a project aimed at building open source, open […]
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Skype abandons peer to peer technology (update: abandons *some* P2P tech)
Skype has been using peer to peer technology to route voice and video calls over the internet for nearly a decade. The P2P network helped keep the company’s bandwidth bills down while allowing millions of people to make free or cheap calls to friends, family, and colleagues across the world. But after Microsoft acquired Skype […]