So, it’s the end at last, is it? It’s been an interesting last 15 years but Microsoft’s Windows Live Messenger is finally reaching the end of the road. Not too long ago anyone who had a long distance relationship or had moved away from friends and family would have had this chat service as one of their main methods of communication. However, after a long and drawn...
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Microsoft Corp. has officially announced that its acquisition of the Internet video chat company Skype has closed. Skype is now a new business division within Microsoft. Tony Bates, the chief executive officer of Skype, now assumes the role of Skype division’s president, and will report directly to Steve Ballmer, the CEO of Microsoft. Skype will now support devices...
Online messaging giant Skype has agreed to acquire GroupMe, a start-up company based in New York, a move that will allow the company to enter the group messaging market. Skype is now hoping to provide users a global multi-platform and multi-modal communications experience. The GroupMe app allows users to make conference calls and send text messages to friends or colleagues. The...
Dubbed as the “must have” app for those iOS device users who travel a lot to other countries by developers, the Skype Wi-Fi app is now ready for Apple’s mobile OS. The service, formerly known as Skype Access, lets people tap into a public Wi-Fi network to check their emails of make Skype per-minute charged calls instead of subscribing for an hour or day...
Hours after the Skype iPad app was “prematurely launched” in, and pulled out from, the iTunes App Store, the highly-anticipated app is now officially available for download again. The Skype iPad app, which enables two-way video calling for free between two Skype members, showed up in Apple’s App Store for a pretty short time on Monday, with Skype saying...
The long-awaited Skype app for Apple’s iPad finally found its way to the iTunes App Store on Tuesday, but was swiftly removed by the company which has recently been acquired by Microsoft. More than a month after its supposed official release date, the Skype iPad app, which features video calling support for the iPad 2, appeared on the App Store. The new Skype app...
Are you familiar with the TV series Fringe? For those of you who are, here’s a cool device that lets you communicate through Skype by using an old typewriter. It is similar to what’s used in the TV series, where the characters use a typewriter to communicate with a parallel world, where the equivalent of the typewriter exists. Whatever is typed into it gets...
In a move that appears to take a shot at Google, Facebook announced on Wednesday that they have teamed up with Skype to bring video calling to Facebook users. This news comes more than a week after Google launched its beta version of Google+, its attempt to directly compete with Facebook. “The video calling is so great and it’s so easy,” said Facebook...
Skype posted a video on YouTube last Friday that shows a new Skype app for the Apple iPad 2. The video was quickly taken down, but someone managed to record the video and has it uploaded again to their own YouTube channel. It seems that the Skype app will take on Apple’s FaceTime on the iPad 2. The app is expected to be officially released tomorrow. The video contains...
Skype users have once again taken to twitter to report Skype has gone down for the second time within a week. The problem isn’t isolated either, users across the globe are reporting problems and when we checked we were also unable to sign in, for reference gadgets and gizmos is based in the UK. Unlike last week, Skype has yet to explain the downtime which has left users...
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