Marguerite Reardon started as a CNET News reporter in 2004, covering cellphone services, broadband, citywide Wi-Fi, the Net neutrality debate and the consolidation of the phone companies. Skype on ...

Skype, a provider of free Net telephony software, on Thursday released its first application for personal digital assistants, making good on an earlier promise to expand the range of devices that can ...

You can record Skype calls on your computer, which is great if you know you'll need to later revisit a meeting or call that you have. When you start recording a Skype call, everyone in the call will ...

Microsoft has been toying with bringing texting functionality to Windows 10 PCs for a while now, and the company is still trying to figure out the best approach. As promised, Microsoft has updated ...

Skype can serve as a low-cost video calling solution for your company, provided your webcam performs properly. A variety of problems can cause webcam issues in Skype, including hardware ...

Skype is adding a new default security feature primarily to protect gamers from their overheated rivals. The Microsoft-owned service recently announced it would start hiding users’ IP addresses by ...

Koninklijke Philips Electronics has announced a new phone that allows users of Skype.’s Internet telephony service to make calls without having to boot up their PCs. The VoIP phone, the VOIP841, is ...

Skype hardware maker Ipevo announced on Tuesday the U.S. launch of the Solo, a desktop Skype phone that makes phone calls over the Internet without being tethered to a computer. Ipevo officials hope ...

Microsoft has rolled out a new preview feature dubbed Skype SMS Connect that lets users read and reply to SMS messages received on an Android phone via the desktop Skype app. The feature is currently ...

The problem with free calls over the Internet is that you have to be at your computer to make them. You can’t be cooking, driving, operating heavy machinery or doing the thousands of other things we ...

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