Skype Crashes and EBay takes a 1 Billion Dollar Dive

Posted by Marshall on August 16, 2007 | Link It

TechCrunch reports EBay Sees $1 Billion Knocked Off Market Cap As Skype Outages Continue today (August 16th, 2007).

"….The Skype outage is now approaching 18 hours (at the time of writing) with little information coming from Skype other than that the issue is related to “sign-on problems.” Skype earlier in the day was forced to deny rumors that their platform had either been hacked or subject to a cyber attack."

It does seem unusual - I've been seeing Skype coming up and down all day but it's not been usable for more than a couple of minutes.



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Anonymous
08/17/07 @ 3:18 am

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sippedoutyoda
08/17/07 @ 10:48 am

That was Skype…

Now is the time for Damaka (www.damaka.com)

Pure SIP based P2P application that encrypts signaling and media end to end so, all your conversations are fully secured end to end.

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Anonymous
08/19/07 @ 4:54 am

It would be time for Damaka ™ if it were not for the fact that it crashed twice in the first 5 minutes of trying it out on a Vista machine - good try.



Anonymous
08/19/07 @ 10:46 pm

Unfortunately, Damaka is not cross platform. It only runs on Windoze.



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