We’ve heard some late night rumors about Microsoft acquiring Skype for 8.5 billion dollars on May 10th, 2011. Well, it’s May 10th and guess what? Those rumors are true. With this acquisition, Microsoft is planning to integrate Skype into the Xbox, Kinect, and most importantly, Windows Phone 7. If you’re worried of Skype [....]

As of later yesterday, December 29, 2010, Skype released an update to their already popular VoIP application for all iOS devices. For the devices with camera(s) the owners will be able to use Skype to either call a desktop or mobile user and those without cameras will be able to view the other person’s camera. [....]

Skype has been hinting that is going to be making some big announcements related to video at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) this year. In conjunction with a stray support article found on their servers relating to video chatting on the iPhone and iOS devices. Now we can only hope that their are [....]

As of this morning most to all Skype users were disconnected, most on the receiving end of a “Skype has stopped responding” window. This was caused by a problem affecting most versions of Skype, on all platforms. For more information and the actual blog post, addressing the issue, from Skype please click below. [....]

A while ago it was rumored that Skype and Facebook were working together to allow people to Skype there Facebook friends without either side having to create a Skype account. Today that was confirmed and released to the public. It was rolled out with Skype 5 for Windows, the first official version of Skype 5. It is not available [....]

Nowadays, it’s pretty big for people, even businesses, to have meetings using services like ooVoo. Introduced in 2007, ooVoo has been getting quite a bit of hits recently with all of its competing features compared to other services, especially video chat. Just recently, ooVoo has partnered up with Wave2Wave Communications. Current Wave2Wave customers will benefit from [....]

A lot of people use Skype to communicate with family and friends hundreds and thousands of miles away. Skype uses a “service” called VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) to help maintain long distance relationships of all kinds. Up until this point you were only able to video with a maximum of one person at a single [....]