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Facebook announces Skype video calling, group chats
- Facebook announced its answer to Google+ Hangouts Wednesday afternoon in the form of a video calling feature powered by Skype. The social network's new offering will allow users to call online contacts directly through the chat tab, without leaving the…
Skype 2.0 for Android adds video calling, but just for four phones
- Skype today announced version 2.0 of its Android app. Skype 2.0 for Android adds Skype Video Calling to Google's mobile operating system. You can download Skype 2.0.0.45 now from the Android Market.
Google adding Skype-like abilities to Chrome, other browsers
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Google plans to add real-time communication features into the popular Chrome web browser, according to an announcement on Google's Chromium-dev group. The technology will be powered by its own WebRTC open-source project.
FTC approves Microsoft's Skype acquisition, Skype fires executives
- The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has approved Microsoft's planned acquisition of Skype, according to Reuters. The news means the software giant has won US antitrust approval for the deal, thought it remains to be seen if Microsoft will get the…
Skype partners with Telus for international calling rates in Canada
- Skype and Telus have announced that they have signed an agreement that will allow Telus smartphone customers to purchase Skype Credit through their existing Telus accounts and take advantage of Skype's low-cost calling rates to keep in touch with friends and…
Skype protocol reverse engineered, source posted online
- Efim Bushmanov has decided he wants to open source the Skype protocol. The researcher claims to have already achieved the reverse engineering part.
Bill Gates: I encouraged Microsoft to buy Skype
- Microsoft chairman Bill Gates is not suffering from buyer's remorse. In fact, he encouraged his company to acquire Skype. That may come as a shock to those who believed it was Ballmer who orchestrated the whole purchase, but it turns…
Microsoft confirmed to buy Skype for $8.5 billion
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Microsoft is reported to have closed an $8.5 billion all-cash deal for the Internet voice and video calling service Skype. The Wall Street Journal says to have confirmed the news after GigaOm first reported it yesterday, and Redmond just made it official in an announcement this morning.
Microsoft may also be interested in Skype
- Rumor has it that Microsoft is in talks with Skype. The software giant is interested in either acquiring the Luxembourg-based company, partnering with, or at the very least investing in it.
Facebook, Google eye Skype deal
- Facebook and Google are separately considering some sort of deal with Skype that could involve either a joint venture or an outright acquisition. According to a report in Reuters, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has taken part in internal discussions about…
Couple holds first Skype wedding
- Samuel Kim and Helen Oh, both 27, were to be married in California until the groom got a lung infection, putting him in the UCI Medical Center hospital in Orange. The duo had friends and family members coming from their…
Skype To Go: VoIP for all mobile and landline phones
- Skype has launched Skype To Go, a service that lets users make voice calls over the Internet (VoIP) from any mobile or landline phone. In other words, you no longer need an Internet connection nor a 3G connection to make…
Skype Access expands to 500,000+ Wi-Fi hotspots
- Skype knows that not everyone has access to 3G or 4G everywhere, all the time. As a result, at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the company announced it is expanding its Wi-Fi hotspots service, Skype Access.
Rumor: Facebook developing VoIP calls à la Skype
- A few Facebook users have started seeing a Call button randomly show up when they visit their friends' profiles. The new button doesn't seem to do anything, but it's not too big of a stretch to guess that Facebook wants…
Skype 5.0 for Mac loses beta tag, whitespace
- Skype 5 for Mac is now out of beta, which should be a big improvement for those using the last stable Mac version: Skype 2.8. You can download the new version directly now: Skype 5.0.0.7980 for Mac OS X.
Mozilla blocks Skype toolbar causing 40,000 Firefox crashes
- The Mozilla team has decided to block the Skype Toolbar due to serious stability and performance issues. Up to and including the current shipping and beta versions of the Skype Toolbar will be added to the Mozilla Firefox Blocklist for…
Skype sets new record: 27 million concurrent users
- Skype set a new record yesterday: 27 million simultaneous active users. The news was announced via Twitter: "New record: 27 million people online on Skype right now!"
Skype began really dominating international calls in 2010
- Skype is now by far the largest provider of international voice-based communications. Skype's growth rate outpaced that of international phone traffic in 2009. It further skyrocketed in 2010, growing by 45 billion minutes, according to research firm TeleGeography. To put…
Skype coming to more TVs, debuts group video calling
- In addition to declaring that it is acquiring Qik, Skype has made two other important announcements. The first is related to the service coming to TVs while the second is regarding the group video calling feature shedding its beta tag.
Skype adds video calls to iPhone app, works on 3G/Wi-Fi
- Skype is hoping to be at the center of your voice and video communication in the near future, that is, if you don't rely already on one of the various services the company has on offer. Today Skype announced an…
Skype to release video-calling for mobile devices?
- Skype, the company known for providing voice and video calling services over the Internet, might be getting ready to release video calling for mobile devices that have a front-facing camera. Skype has been hinting for a while now that it…
Skype plans to compensate users for outage
- Skype suffered a massive outage yesterday that knocked most users offline. In an update this morning, Skype CEO Tony Bates said service has been fully restored for users in Europe and the Eastern US. Around 16.5 million people were online…
Skype outage affects millions of users
- Popular VoIP service Skype appears to be suffering an outage this morning as many users complain of connection issues. The company hasn't released an estimated number of affected users, but ReadWriteWeb reports that usage numbers have fallen from 21 million…
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