Skype News & Articles

Quiet week in the GRC space this week, but there’s still a few nuggets worth noting. Social media and the risks it poses were identified by Symantec, Passware shows that its new product finds your OS passwords, SDL’s translation software gets further security certification and Nextware legal services offers iPad support.

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+?

A full-featured Skype app is heading to the Apple (news, site) iPad, despite its recent high-ticket purchase by Microsoft.

For this week's roll-up we've got some of the hottest news from this year's Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston, as well as some thoughts on your digital worth. That is, what buying and selling shares in social media entities, be they people, brands or blogs, might mean for the future. 

Skype (news, site) may want to watch its back. Shortly after releasing WebRTC, an open-source software project for audio and video chat, the great Google is beginning to build it into the Chrome browser. 

Skype and Facebook have been playing nice for some time now, but this week the VoIP provider announced deeper integration in version 5.5 Beta for Windows. 

Microsoft (news, site) has been given regulatory approval to buy Skype, clearing the way for the $8.5 million deal.

I'm the kind of person who always has a device close at hand. I check email and messaging before I brush my teeth. A few friends around the world were missing this morning, however, due to the outage of Microsoft's (news, site) recent acquisition Skype (news, site). I checked my favorite news breaking source -- you know, Twitter -- and it's true. Skype is having its second large network interruption in just a couple of weeks.

Unhappy with Skype? Worried about what's going to happen now that it's been sold? This week we've got a list of alternative tools as well as some thoughts on the Jive/OffiSync deal that promises to socialize Microsoft environments. 

Microsoft's whopping US$ 8.5 billion purchase of Skype is probably good news for a large pool of video chat users, but there's undoubtedly those who are worried about the possible implications of the acquisition. While there's no exact clone of Skype floating around out there, a number of tools would still make great alternatives for those that fall into the latter category:

The two players left holding the Windows Phone 7 (news, site) baby need some big ideas to make a sizeable dent in the market.