Skype

Home Office declares: Detained immigrants shall have internet

Still no WhatsApp or Facebook, though...

Legal17 May 2016 | 11

Microsoft completes its Skype bot invasion with Web, OS X versions

What the bet Tay doesn't get a look-in?

Software20 Apr 2016 | 19

Microsoft introduces yet another Skype for Windows 10

This time it's a complete Universal app

OSes24 Mar 2016 | 40

Linux lads lambast sorry state of Skype service

Abandoned Penguinista builds can't link up with newer clients, according to gripes

OSes25 Feb 2016 | 101

Good news ... and bad news for Skype-using Apple fans and small biz

iOS app now offers native support for Office. End of the road for Managed Accounts

Software17 Feb 2016 | 6

Skype users were targeted by bad-ad pushing Angler crooks

But fear not – the taint has now been purged

Security12 Feb 2016 | 9

Facebook Messenger: All your numbers are belong to us

The (social) world is not enough, for Zuckerberg

Networks20 Jan 2016 | 91

Skype now translates in real-time into seven languages

Redmond's also teaching it to speak hipster with Slack integration

Software15 Jan 2016 | 24

Skype finally catches Google with group video chat

Has it finally fixed mobile video issues?

Software12 Jan 2016 | 12

Chat messages in Skype for Windows are bang out of order – so here's how to 'fix' it for now

While Microsoft engineers work on a new version of 7.17

Software29 Dec 2015 | 35

Edge joins Explorer in bumper crop of security patches

No zero days but plenty to be getting on with

OSes11 Nov 2015 | 18

Skype founders planning non-drone robodelivery fleet. Repeat, not drones

Let ‘em say you’re crazy, what do they know

Personal Tech02 Nov 2015 | 61

Microsoft scares the bejesus out of Skype users with x12 price hike

Don't panic, it's just a Redmond screwup

Networks30 Oct 2015 | 39

Use Skype if you want to report a crime, say cops

Brit police toys with video-chat meetings in bid to save time and money

Bootnotes30 Oct 2015 | 61

Shattered Skype slowly staggers to its feet after 15-HOUR outage outrage

Howls of pain still echo across the internet

SaaS22 Sep 2015 | 34

Hello? HELLO? Major Skype outage hits folk WORLDWIDE

Vid chat service KOd, hapless Brits bear brunt of borkage

Channel21 Sep 2015 | 68

Microsoft Edges bets on browser-only Skype

Plug-ins checking out for chatty types

Software21 Sep 2015 | 26

Microsoft to spoofed Skype users: Change your account passwords NOW

Contact lists blighted by dodgy messages FOR WEEKS

Security19 Jul 2015 | 26

Microsoft picks up shotgun, walks 'Modern apps' behind the shed

Windows 8.x users to receive ye olde desktoppe Skype, cos it works better on PCs

Networks12 Jun 2015 | 63

Dodgy colon bug is a total pain in the butt for Skype users today

Rap for yap app in crap chat flap

SaaS03 Jun 2015 | 29

Skype hauled into court after refusing to hand call records to cops

Comply with us voluntarily, citizen - or we'll force you

Security26 May 2015 | 44

Time to get your babble on: Microsoft opens Skype Translator Preview to all comers

Chat to your mates in Klingon

Software12 May 2015 | 33

Round Two in Sky vs Skype trademark scrap goes to Murdoch's men

Update Everyone knows how similar pay-TV and VOIP is...

Legal05 May 2015 | 75

Skype squares up to Cisco again with new round of 'Room Systems'

Redmond reveals Skype for Business features and futures

Networks19 Mar 2015 | 1

Microsoft: We bought Skype. We make mobiles.. Oh, HANG ON!

Analysis EUREKA! We should put the two together

Software23 Jan 2015 | 30

Microsoft whips out real-time translator for Skype calls

Babel Fish in your ear not required

Software15 Dec 2014 | 42

Microsoft's Lync becomes 'Skype for Business'

Skype on the desktop for all Office users: what could go wrong with that?

Software12 Nov 2014 | 33

Microsoft to bake Skype into IE, without plugins

Redmond thinks the Object Real-Time Communications API for WebRTC is ready to roll

Software28 Oct 2014 | 47

SKYPE has the HOTS for my NAKED WIFE

Something for the Weekend, Sir? If she has nothing to hide, she has nothing to worry about, right?

Software25 Oct 2014 | 81

Qik as mud: Skype adds self-destructing video messages years too late

42 seconds in heaven (or hell)

Legal14 Oct 2014 | 8

Landline deregulation: Big EU telcos have Skype to thank

Steelie Neelie says 'spoilt kid' telcos must move with the times

Legal09 Oct 2014 | 12

Microsoft splurges 2½ INSTAGRAMS buying Minecraft maker Mojang

+Comment It'll all end in showers of collapsing blocks, mark my words

Personal Tech15 Sep 2014 | 50

RIP MSN Messenger, kthxbai. Microsoft finally flicks on KILL SWITCH in China

Redmond silences aged IM service, touts Skype

Software30 Aug 2014 | 20

Leaked docs reveal power of malware-for-government product 'FinFisher'

Win 8 Pro tip: Govt spyware can't tap Skype's Metro app

Security05 Aug 2014 | 13

Crypto-boffins propose safer buddy list protocol

Presence services with less privacy risk

Security10 Jun 2014 | 3

Former Microsoft exec Bates bounces to GoPro

Skype dude joins board of fancy camera maker

On-Prem04 Jun 2014 | 5

Skype to become 'Star Trek' style real-time translator, says Redmond

Allô? Cette vidéo est une boîte de puanteurs

Software28 May 2014 | 36

Skype co-founder's VC firm sues ex-staffer and consultant

Lawsuit alleges pair diverted cash for own fund

On-Prem09 May 2014 | 1

Icahn and I will: Carl's war on eBay goes NUCLEAR over Skype

World's most pushy investor sticks boot in over VoIP biz flog

On-Prem04 Mar 2014 | 43

But... you work in IT... Why aren't we RICH?

Something for the Weekend, Sir? Buy my fantasy tech... watch my heels... and... POP!

On-Prem28 Feb 2014 | 71

What's up with that WhatsApp $19bn price tag? Answer: Voice calls

Now you can text and talk on your phone! RIP the mobile network business as we know it

Channel25 Feb 2014 | 48

Forget unified communications, we want universal comms, Microsoft insists

Lync team wants to rule the world

Software19 Feb 2014 | 20

Redmond researchers profile Skype scammers

Markov models sniff out the fake IDs and spammy creeps

Security21 Jan 2014 | 8

Skype's Twitter account, blog hacked to spread anti-Microsoft messages

Hi! Microsoft here. We p0wn you, so don't use our products

Security02 Jan 2014 | 43

Euro judge flings out Cisco beefs against Microsoft-Skype deal

We just want standards-based interoperability, pleads networking colossus

Channel11 Dec 2013 | 13

Brit-boy Bates is Silicon Valley's pick for Microsoft's CEO

Comment This proves Redmond needs a Ford man

OSes02 Dec 2013 | 26

You have a Skype voicemail. PSYCHE! It's just some fiendish Trojan-flinging spam

UK plod warn punters NOT to unzip those files

Security28 Nov 2013 | 20

Microsoft announces new Skype China partner

Guangming Founder gets the gig as snooping fears persist

Networks27 Nov 2013 |

Hate Skype now it's part of Microsoft? How about a Chinese clone, then?

China mobile's Jego VoIP service offers free calls and rents Honkers phone numbers

Networks21 Nov 2013 | 11

Microsoft won't run Skype in China - a new JV partner awaits

Chat monitoring to continue inside Great Firewall though

Networks11 Nov 2013 | 3

Skype U-turns on plan to kill off desktop API, spares foot from bullet

Phones, headsets and voice recording lives on - for now

OSes07 Nov 2013 | 8

Please, PLEASE, Skype... Don't kill our apps and headsets, plead devs

Petition demands stay of execution on doomed desktop API

Software25 Oct 2013 | 70

Luxembourgeois data protection watchdog probes Microsoft in Skype PRISM complaint

"Happy to answer questions" says Redmond mouthpiece

Legal14 Oct 2013 | 16

Microsoft keeps Skype content safe from police data slurping - for now

Second transparency report shows slight increase in data requests

Legal27 Sep 2013 | 12

Skype: 3D video calling is the FUTURE

Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi, you're my only hope of using up all this bandwidth

Software29 Aug 2013 | 20

Boffins force Skype to look you in the eye

Look into my eyes, not around the eyes, don't look around my eyes, you're under

Software28 Aug 2013 | 16