Skype TV goes live soon

Skype, a provider of Internet telephone services, plans to launch a broadband TV service next year, the Financial Times reported on Monday. Development of the service was financed by Skype creators Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom, with proceeds from the company's $2.6 billion sale to eBay last year. Codenamed the Venice Project, the TV service has been in beta testing with 6,000 users, and can deliver high-quality, full-screen video to PCs, FT.com reported. The peer-to-peer technology on which Skype is based will be able to deliver video programming to "tens of millions of users," Friis told the Financial Times. Skype currently claims over 136 million users for its Internet-based telephone service.

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