The blogosphere was all a-twitter yesterday when rumors surfaced that Skype, the popular internet telephony application, would be released as open source "in the nearest future". It turns out that ...

Over 100 Internet advocates, journalists and other organization members penned an open letter to Microsoft today, urging the Redmond software giant to be more transparent with its Skype software. In ...

Most people love Skype, the VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) program, but Linux users have a love/hate relationship with it. Yes, Skype will run on some versions of Linux, but it doesn’t run on all ...

How private is Skype? We don’t know, and that’s a serious problem. This is the message put forth in an “Open Letter to Skype,” which was published today and carries the signatures of more than 100 ...

As I wrote earlier today, when something goes open source we should ask how. So in contrast with Yahoo's open sourcing of Traffic Server, let's talk about Skype's "open source" move. Yahoo was trying ...

Skype is now letting anyone use its real-time translation feature to talk to someone who speaks a different language. Microsoft announced it would add real-time translation to its video-calling app ...

Skype yesterday petitioned the FCC to lay the smack down on wireless phone carriers who "limit subscribers' right to run software communications applications of their choosing" (read: Skype software).

Next up, Skype for Android now integrates with the Microsoft Office apps on Google’s mobile platform. You can now easily open documents, spreadsheets, and presentations that you receive in Skype chats ...

When you sign into Skype to instant message or video chat with family and friends, your status lets everyone know whether you're available to chat or not. The "Invisible" status setting makes you ...

Users have repeatedly reported bugs in Skype, and today, we are here to put one of them to rest: the issue where it keeps crashing and stops working on Windows 11/10. There are several probable causes ...