p2p news / p2pnet: eBay’s Skype Technologies has bought VoIP start-ups Sonorit Holding and its US subsidiary, Camino Networks, for $27 million in eBay stock, .

Skype wants to add the companies’ online voice engineering experts to its staff, it said, according to the IDG News Service.

“;They will help design and develop future versions of Skype’s voice-over-IP (VoIP) product.”

Sonorit and Camino,which build products for speech processing, coding and transmission over Net-based networks, have been the subjects of at least one lawsuit, says IDG, adding:

"In December, Global IP Sound (GIPS), a company that offers VoIP technologies, filed a lawsuit that charged them with violating trade secrets. GIPS said some Sonorit workers were former GIPS employees."

Also See:
IDG News Service – Skype Scoops Up VoIP Tech Cos, April 11, 2006

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