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Phone calls for free? So says eBay

Phone calls for free? So says eBay

Molly Wood Former Executive Editor
Molly Wood was an executive editor at CNET, author of the Molly Rants blog, and host of the tech show, Always On. When she's not enraging fanboys of all stripes, she can be found offering tech opinions on CBS and elsewhere, and offering opinions on everything else to anyone who will listen.
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eBay CEO Meg Whitman says that in the near future, Internet phone calls will be free. Whitman says advertising and transaction fees will pay for a Voice over IP-calling explosion, and that's why eBay bought Skype. Oh, hey, there was a reason! I don't understand it, but it's good to know there was one.