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Software killed the radio star

By Celeste Biever

13 April 2005

TWICE a week, Shel Holtz and Neville Hobson co-host an internet radio talk show. No big deal. What is a big deal is that Holtz lives in California while Hobson lives in the Netherlands. And neither has access to a radio studio. Yet with a couple of PCs, a broadband connection and a fashionable piece of free software, they can bridge the Atlantic and broadcast to the world.

Their secret is a software package called Skype. Released in August 2003, Skype was designed to allow users to make free telephone calls over the internet. But the sound quality is excellent…

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