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 ...

You can now put a Skype call on your Outlook calendar without leaving the app, and more easily open Office docs. I'm PCMag's managing editor for consumer electronics, overseeing an experienced team of ...

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 ...

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 6.6 for iPhone and iPad now lets you quickly start calls, check locations, and set up calendar events directly from an instant message. This is because phone numbers, times and dates, and ...

Skype has decided not to renew an agreement that allows open-source telephony system Asterisk to be integrated with the service using software developed with Digium. The decision is more about a ...

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 ...

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).