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eBay's buying Skype for $2.6 billion
by David Chartier Sep 12th 2005 at 8:30AM
Personally I'm kinda scratching my head on this one, but apparently the rumors are true: eBay - an online auction giant, is buying Skype - a VoIP startup. I'm not really seeing a whole lot of insightful speculation around the net as to why though. Infoworld takes a couple pot-shots, thinking that maybe eBay simply needs to start expanding their business toolbelt, and Victor last week blogged a few good Skype tie-ins to eBay auctions.Whatever the reason, I think this is going to be interesting. This is an odd couple situation to me, like if Motorola bought a furniture company or something. At the end of the day though, I hope Skype retains a free version for all us little people.
[via Macworld]
With Halloween fast approaching, it's a great time to get in some practice defending your territory against zombies. In Graveyard Shift, you take aim at zombies and other creepy-crawlies, blasting them into splatters of cartoony green guts. It's a casual first-person shooter, and it's very easy to get the hang of - use the mouse to aim, click to fire. Graveyard Shift has at least 15 levels, and it might even have some secret stages I haven't unlocked yet.
They key to getting good at Graveyard Shift is learning to use ...
