New Company to Eavesdrop on Internet Calls

According to the Associated Press, a company called Pudding Media wants to make money with software that would let people make unlimited and free calls from their computers to any phone in North America. The catch? The system listens to the content of the conversation and then displays ads on the caller's screen, based on the subject of the conversation. Talk about a creepy idea. They want to eventually license their system to other companies providing voice conversations over the Internet. The system is similar, in that sense, to Google's Gmail service. I think I'm ready to move back to telegraph and smoke signals.