Skype News & Articles

It seems odd that Microsoft has the hottest smartphone of the moment but doesn't have a Skype app for it, despite having paid billions for the company. That will change, "soon," as the Windows Phone bandwagon starts to really roll.

When you spend US$ 8.5 billion on a company, you'll want to start earning some of that back someday, Microsoft thinks it has that figured out.

Microsoft's Skype is pretty much everywhere in the computing space, but that's clearly not enough. Expect to see Skype in all kinds of other gadgets and electronic goods with the advent of SkypeKit which also boosts desktop application integration.

October seems to be the month when all the action happens for smartphones, as the mobile players get ready for the next set of device and operating system hostilities.

With the much-anticipated axing of Leo Apotheker, new CEO Meg Whitman has a mighty challenge on her hands to get Hewlett-Packard back on track.

A potentially nasty bug in Skype for iPhone and iPod Touch could lead to your contacts being compromised. Simple solution: Don't open text messages in the chat window, and check for a really quick update.

Still finalizing its acquisition of Skype, Microsoft has announced that its Windows Phone 7 Mango update will include Skype video calling, while Skype itself now has an app store for programs that use Skype APIs.

Skype shows off some more acquisition aggression by picking up group messaging start-up GroupMe for around US$ 80 million. 

Skype (news, site) has unveiled an iOS app that will let users log on and use over a million Wi-Fi spots around the world on a minute-by-minute billing basis through their Skype accounts.

Skype (news, site) has grown to be the darling of social media news lately, with Microsoft's US$ 8.5 billion acquisition and the newly-implemented tight integration with Facebook. One thing has been lacking for some time now, though, and that's the much-anticipated official app for the iPad. That just changed, with Skype's official iPad application being released.

HD Voice company Viber's (news, site) public release of its Android app gives it a great chance at becoming the next Skype.

Skype and Facebook owned the headlines this week with their integration news. Meanwhile, yet another of Zoho's apps went mobile and we took a look at how to manage the malware that comes through social networks. 

This week the mobile enterprise celebrates Cell Phone Courtesy month. So if you would kindly stop playing Angry Birds for just a moment, it would be very much appreciated. Thank you.

As users start checking out each other's latest hairstyles/facial hair and other distinguishing features thanks to Facebook's (news, site) new video chat feature, what do the industry bigwigs make of it?

Facebook and Skype have announced an in-browser video-based chat feature as its next big thing. Will this new feature dent the interest in Google+?