After earlier reports that Skype’s founders were trying to buy back the company from eBay, the company has now released the news that it plans to spin off Skype as a separate company and file for an initial public offering. The IPO is intended to be completed in the first half of 2010. (more…)

Hot on the heels of releasing Skype for iPhone, the VoIP communications company has come to the table with news of a free, ‘lite’ version of Skype for BlackBerry. Already downloadable for Android, Java, Symbian, and Windows Mobile, BlackBerry has remained Skype’s missing link. (more…)

Mozilla has thrown its support behind the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s push to have the U.S. Copyright Office allow iPhone jailbreaking.

CEO John Lilly told Computerworld that “choice is good for users, and choice shouldn’t be criminalized,” in light of the dispute between the EFF and Apple over whether or not iPhone jailbreaking–the practice of modifying an iPhone to accept software from sources other than Apple–is a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Last week Apple declared that jailbreaking an iPhone violates Apple’s copyright and can cause all sorts of technical problems for the user in response to a petition from the EFF that iPhone jailbreaking be given a DMCA exemption. (more…)