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Want to get rich on Wall Street? eBay just announced that it’s taking Skype public next year. Read the full details by clicking the link.

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iPhone? We don’t need no stinkin’ iPhone! eBay has announced that its ultra-popular VoIP software, Skype, will be available for download sometime on Tuesday. The application will change the way people use their iPhones and could even put a dent in sales of the Apple device as more people choose the unrestricted iPod Touch over the iPhone. All your standard features are available, save for video chat. Blackberries will also be getting a Skype application on Tuesday, paving the way for telecom companies to freak the fuck out.

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Hot damn! Believe it or not, the above display and handsets are for a new platform from Open Peak called Open Frame. It lets IP-based devices talk to each other over the network and acts as an entertainment hub. Built-in WiFi and Ethernet will let you check your calendar, YouTube, text messages, address book, email and more. All powered by a new Intel Atom processor, which helps keep the design small. It looks like a beautiful interface. Here’s to 2009, hoping that some company will use Open Frame wisely.

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Although this isn’t the only phone that gives us wood, it does make us pop a hard one. After all, when it comes to using Skype or any other VOIP service, it’s tough to look cool talking into your monitor. But, with the Hulger Pappa*Phone, you can’t not look cool. It’d be impossible. In fact, you could call anyone on this phone and still come off as cool in front of anyone whose watching you shout into a wooden phone regarding Star Trek facts.

The phone is handcrafted from a single piece of American Walnut with polished brass in between that certainly would go well with that wooden scale you have.  For $300, it’s yours, but that price doesn’t include your up and coming Skype phone bill.

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Trying to call your female escort to let her know you’ll be late? Use one of these payphones hooked up to the Internet via a PBX system. Probably running Asterisk I’m guessing. Check out photos of the setup after the jump.
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While VoIP might not be everyone’s cup of tea, it’s definitely going to attract the attention of those who are really trying to pinch pennies. T-Mobile today announced it’s going to blow everyone else out of the water in the market by offering $10/mo home phone service via the T-Mobile @Home service.

Beginning July 2nd, T-Mobile customers will be able to take advantage of @Home for ten bucks. At that price, you’re paying $15 less than Vonage and way less than your cable provider. Of course, if you really want to save money, you could just tie two cans together and yell into each end like a true douche.

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Could Sony have gotten anymore simplistic than naming their new mouse with an integrated Internet phone Mouse Talk.  It has single-handedly inspired me to invent a toilet with an embedded radio I’m calling “Shit Listen.” If you’re gay for VoIP and you have no need for a comfortable mouse then Mouse Talk is for you.

It lets you make and receive high quality calls while you click away at minesweeper on your 800 DPI optical mouse. A conveniently placed button on the side of the mouse opens the phone to enable speakerphone functionality. As you probably guessed, it’s got a hefty price tag being that it comes from Sony. Ecost.com is letting it go for $84.99 making it one of the more pricey mice on the market.
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Wait, you mouse only does what? It only move that cursor around your screen?! Not anymore. With the Genius Navigator 380, your mouse now works as a VOIP phone, an instant messaging device, not to mention the 1200dpi optical mouse part. All of these are rolled into its sweet clamshell design. Of course, if you have this multi-functional device, its primary use will be the mouse, but when you receive a call from one of your friends, it will either ring or flash a green light (underneath where your hand would be). The Genius Navigator 380 is a great little peripheral for you business travelers as well. You can save precious room in your laptop case to use for that enormous power adapter they didn’t tell you the laptop required. To top it off, the Genius Navigator 380 can juggle six separate instant messengers (Skype, MSN, Yahoo, GoogleTalk, QQ, and AIM) simultaneously in one window. Another multi-function that will save you space and money. Why not?

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