Skype Crashes and EBay takes a 1 Billion Dollar Dive

by usmanzia on August 17, 2007

According toS kype spokesperson  the crew is working hard to get the service back by August 17th. the porblems exists far & wide

Skype journal reported that 1.3 million Skype users were connected to the SkypeUPDATE: 0800 Pacific: 1.8 million online. 500,000 people reconnected in 3 hours.

UPDATE: 0825 Pacific: 2.5 million online. See chart snapshot below.picture-of-a-recovery

However i feel the problem is still out there for millions around the world.

TechCrunch reports EBay Sees $1 Billion Knocked Off Market Cap As Skype Outages Continue today 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.

Although there are many alternatives to Skype like www.jajah.coma nd www.zoippe.com but still users cannot avoid the most disruptive technology for anthing else.

According toS kype spokesperson  the crew is working hard to get the service back by August 17th. the porblems exists far & wide

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