Skype founders to launch Web TV service
Published December 18th, 2006
A broadband television service developed by the founders of Internet calling program Skype is expected to be launched next year, the Financial Times reported on Monday.
Some 6,000 individuals have already been testing the service, named the Venice Project, the newspaper said.
Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom invested part of the money they made from selling Skype to eBay last year in developing the new product, it said.
Friis told the Financial Times that peer-to-peer technology used by the service, would make it possible to serve “tens of millions of users” while overcoming content owners’ security fears.
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