Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The new feature has a few limitations, however The new feature has a few limitations, however Skype announced ...

Sometimes web-based services and sites get sold for eye-catching amounts of money. But Microsoft’s proposal to buy Skype for $8.5 billion — yes, that’s a “b” — caught even the most jaded techies ...

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 ...

The Brief: Belkin’s Desktop Internet Phone allows Skype calls to be made simply, by plugging straight into a wired/wireless router or live Ethernet port. The internet phone can store 500 contacts and ...

Skype is riding a VOIP wave it helped create with free computer-to-computer calls, but it's far from being alone in the fast-growing industry Skype users in the U.S. and Canada can call free to ...

Skype has introduced support for custom backgrounds in video calls, following the recent popularity of an equivalent feature in Zoom. The option to use custom backgrounds is part of the version 8.59.0 ...

There are two sets of people, facing different two different yet similar problems. On one hand, we have people who are unable to make a call. Their call is either not connecting and/or when they try ...

The To Go service of eBay's Internet telephony unit lets users make international calls at the same rate as from a PC. Commodity calls are at your service. Dave Rosenberg has more than 15 years of ...

Evelyn and Kurt Weber found themselves facing a difficult time away from their children."We were leaving last spring for my husband’s third brain surgery in six years. We knew this would be tough ...

1. What you'll need: Skype is supported on all major computer operating systems, though you'll need a microphone and speakers, and a broadband connection is recommended to keep the sound from seeming ...