The decision to scrap Skype, announced in March, caps a remarkable 21-year run for a software that for many embodied the early values of the open internet: It was mostly free, had a user-friendly ...

Skype, the free Internet phone service partly owned by San Jose online auction giant eBay, filed Monday for an initial public stock offering, hoping to bolster its mostly money-losing business ...

Skype was founded in 2003 and was among the first in a wave of communication services that used voice over internet protocol technology (VoIP), which converts audio into a digital signal.

The decision to scrap Skype, announced in March, caps a remarkable 21-year run for a software that for many embodied the early values of the open internet.

Skype users are scrambling to find an alternative after Microsoft shut down the pioneering internet phone service which let people make cheap long distance calls and chat with other users.

Skype, the once-revolutionary voice-over internet platform, will cease to exist. Those still using it to make calls should check out these other options. When Skype debuted in 2003, it was the ...

BARCELONA, Spain--Josh Silverman, the chief executive of Skype, the voice over Internet phone service, could tick off the names of mobile phone operators that block his company's service. But for ...

Skype's costs are low because it relies on peer-to-peer network architecture to complete calls over the public Internet, with no need for expensive equipment or infrastructure on the back end ...

Skype is announcing a number of new Internet-connected mobile phone devices at CES this week. They are aggresively moving into the telecommunications hardware market, proving that hardware is ...

Skype allows you to make telephone calls over the Internet. All you need is the app from the Skype website and a headset. If you want to make video calls, a webcam is also needed.