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Agenda Setters: Where are they now... Sam Palmisano
News Niklas Zennstrom As the countdown begins to silicon.com's seventh annual Agenda Setters poll of tech's 50 most influential individuals, it is time to look back at those who held top 10 positions in 2005. [15 Sep 2006]
Skype makes $27m acquisition
News We're excited about bringing the talented Camino Networks team to Skype," Niklas Zennstrom, Skype's CEO and co-founder, said in a press release. eBay's Skype unit said on Tuesday that it has agreed to acquire a San Francisco-based speech-processing... [12 Apr 2006]
Skype and Netgear hook up for stand-alone wi-fi phone
News Skype CEO Niklas Zennstrom joined the demonstration by placing a call to Lo's wi-fi phone. Networking products maker Netgear and wireless calling provider Skype on Wednesday unveiled the first wi-fi phone designed to work on the internationally... [05 Jan 2006]
Leader: Agenda Setters 2005 - return of the dot-coms
Leader Plenty of today's upstarts made the list, including voice over IP players Niklas Zennstrom (4) from Skype and Jeffrey Citron (36) from Vonage, for their role in championing VoIP and the threat they pose to the traditional telcos. [27 Sep 2005]
Leader: Agenda Setters 2005 - return of the dot-coms
AS Analysis Plenty of today's upstarts made the list, including voice over IP players Niklas Zennstrom (4) from Skype and Jeffrey Citron (36) from Vonage, for their role in championing VoIP and the threat they pose to the traditional telcos. [26 Sep 2005]
Leader: The VoIP evolution
Leader This week, Icann chairman Vint Cerf joined in a chorus which already includes (predictably) Skype CEO Niklas Zennstrom. Technological change is rarely sudden. More often it's a gradual, continuous process - an evolution, one might say. [15 Apr 2005]
Skype spruced up with paid-for services
News Skype CEO Niklas Zennstrom told silicon.com he hopes the new features will increase the amount of time people use Skype and help "people to make Skype more and more a primary communications tool". But Zennstrom says they've already seen testers use... [15 Apr 2005]
The Skype ecosystem: A labour of love
Comment Skype CEO Niklas Zennstrom told silicon.com: "What we want to do is create an ecosystem around Skype. The fact that one of the most popular add-ons is voicemail - a feature Skype is itself developing in beta and hopes to charge for - doesn't... [18 Mar 2005]
Vonage quietly debuts in the UK
News Skype is also testing a voicemail service it hopes to launch this spring, a feature previously promised by CEO Niklas Zennstrom. US-based voice-over-IP company Vonage has opened for business in the UK, its first European market, with options for... [06 Jan 2005]
Europe worried about VoIP regulation
News Despite recent comments from Skype CEO Niklas Zennstrom that there is no need to regulate voice over IP, new research shows regulation in this area is a concern in Europe. Twenty per cent of European telecoms executives said in a recent survey that... [11 Nov 2004]
Skype gets down to business VoIP
News Winning over business will not be an easy task, Skype co-founder Niklas Zennstrom said. We can't do all of this ourselves and are looking for partners - resellers, hardware makers, system integrators, consultants - to help," Zennstrom said. [07 Oct 2004]
Leader: Why a surprise Agenda Setter keeps us on our toes
Leader Also on the list are various VIPs from sectors such as politics (the surveillance society vying for issue du jour), outsourcing/offshoring, communications - check out Skype's Niklas Zennstrom in with a bullet at 3 - and the IT industry more... [27 Sep 2004]
BBC's Highfield beats Jobs as top man in tech
News Finally, the telecoms world saw an upset with Niklas Zennstrom, CEO of Skype and founder of Kazaa, coming in at number 3 for challenging the traditional telcos with voice over IP. For working to bring about a 100 per cent digital Britain and... [27 Sep 2004]
Skype brings VoIP to the Mac
News Niklas Zennstrom, chief executive and co-founder of Skype, in a statement: "We direct our development by listening to the comments and requests from Skype users. Skype launched a version of its internet telephony service for users of Apple... [01 Sep 2004]
ISPs drawn into illegal file sharing blame game
News Joltid founder Niklas Zennstrom, who co-founded Kazaa, defended PeerCache and the ISPs using it by saying that European Union laws allow service providers to temporarily cache traffic on their servers regardless of the legality of the file. [21 Jul 2003]
