Skype

ah-HA...! i was having problems connecting on skype the past couple of days... sometimes my cable modem here gets huffy about connecting to certain sites and i thought that might have been the problem... looks like it was skype...

Problems continued yesterday for Skype, an Internet-based phone company, as it tried to patch up a software glitch that left many of its 220 million customers disconnected.

Worldwide disruption spanning Asia, Europe, Latin America and North America began on Thursday, prompting rumors on the Web about the cause of the outage, including speculation that the service had been attacked by Russian hackers, or that the failure was the result of problems caused by a recent software update.

i have a lot of friends and colleagues whose lives, like mine, encompass living for extended periods of time in far-flung corners of the globe, and skype has been an enormous aid to staying in touch with family, friends and business associates... not only is the price right (i can call the u.s. from argentina for 2 u.s. cents a minute), but the service and call quality is excellent... it's also very popular... for example, right now, at 9:03 a.m. argentina regional time, there are 5,623,663 users online... right now, it's working, and here's hoping their glitch stays fixed...

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