Voip 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.

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

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.

Google is promoting more conversation this week with the release of a multiple calls feature in Gmail. Now users can run their mouths on more than one phone call at a time. 

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

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+?

This week, Google fired at Skype's success with talk of baking a VoIP service into Chrome. Meanwhile, offline support was confirmed and we waved farewell to IE 7. 

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.

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:

Lots of big news in the enterprise world this week, including Microsoft's very, very pretty penny for Skype and the release of Yammer Desktop 2.0. 

Microsoft (news, site) has been going around the media since the announcement of the Skype deal, defending and explaining the benefits of the purchase.

Microsoft (news, site) has confirmed that it is buying Skype, making the product ubiquitous across MS's Windows universe, Xbox games consoles and phones. But what have the two companies got to say for themselves, as they speak in public for the first time?