Summary
EBay, the popular online auction house, is convinced they soon will and that the trademark could one day achieve the ultimate accolade, becoming a verb. eBay has just paid £1.4bn for [Skype], a technology business that enables people connected to the internet to phone each other free. Anyone can download the necessary software gratis. They then just need a headset to chat to anyone else in the world who also Skypes.
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The Business Column: Patrick Hosking
"To Skype" hasn't yet made it into the Oxford English Dictionary. Unlike Hoovering and Googling, the public haven't yet taken Skyping to their bosom. Most probably don't yet know what it means.
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