Since its inception, Skype has been notable for its secretive, proprietary algorithm. It's also long had a complicated relationship with encryption: encryption is used by the Skype protocol, but the ...

It’s last call for Skype, the internet-based phone and video platform so dominant in the mid-2000s that it became a verb. The impending shutdown was confirmed in a statement released Friday by Jeff ...

Ne’er-do-wells have long abused a feature in Skype to glean the Internet address of other users. Indeed, many shady online services that can be hired to launch attacks aimed at knocking users offline ...

Skype, once a trailblazer for internet-enabled video calling, might finally ride into the sunset after years of a shoddy competitive streak. The latest preview build of Skype ships with a few lines of ...

Rumors rather than confirmed facts suggest that Microsoft, via its acquired Skype service is able to snoop on your Skype conversations. If true - and so far Microsoft has not been categorical in its ...

Skype is finally catching up with Google in making it possible to hold group video calls on your smartphone. The 12-year-old free-calling service is rolling out its group-video calling service for iOS ...

Skype is best known for being a video calling app and, to some extent, that’s because its messaging feature set has been a bit underdeveloped. Today, the company is working to change that image with a ...

Microsoft on Wednesday released a preview of the next generation of its popular corporate videoconferencing and instant messaging software. That software was formerly known as Lync but will now be ...

It’s been available in preview for several months, but today, October 31, Microsoft is rolling out its new-look Skype desktop app for everyone who still uses the software to keep in touch with friends ...

Microsoft has drastically overhauled the network running its Skype voice-over-IP service, replacing peer-to-peer client machines with thousands of Linux boxes that have been hardened against the most ...

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