Skype - key event communication tool for Rolex Sydney Hobart race

5:23 AM Sat 18 Dec 2010 GMT

'Niklas Zennstrom’s JV72 RAN passing Tasman Island at sunrise. 2009 Rolex Sydney to Hobart' &copy Rolex/ Kurt Arrigo Click Here to view large photo

Two Swedish techno-nerds Niklas Zennstr?m and Janus Friis spent the noughties revolutionizing music distribution and telephony in the 21st century. The two business partners who co-founded Kazaa, a peer to peer file-sharing service that became the source of free music to hundreds of millions of people, then started Skype the Voice over Internet Protocol (VOIP), which has now changed the face of telephony world-wide. Now a resident of Britain, Zennstr?m is back in Australia. He began sailing as a seven year old and has just raced his minimaxi, the Judel Vroljik Ran, in the 628 nautical mile Rolex Sydney Hobart; ...

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