When Skype debuted in 2003, it was the first time I remember feeling that an individual app—and not just the broader internet—was radically disrupting communications. Thanks to its implementation of ...

On Turesday, Skype debuted Skype Qik, a “spontaneous” video chat app that allows you to fire off video messages to a group of friends, react to them, and rest easy in the fact that they’ll disappear ...

After a 21-year run, the once widely-used video chat app Skype is now officially a memory, as of May 5. “Rest in peace, Skype ...

Skype has released a new version of Skype for Android that resolves the configuration issues that left sensitive data exposed on Android smartphones. You should ...

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Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Microsoft today announced a preview of new iOS and Android apps for Skype ...

More than a month after its expected debut, the iPad-optimized Skype client is made available on Apple's App Store--after briefly being pulled for a number of hours. Steven Musil is a senior news ...

I've used Skype for years, but its convoluted user interface and awkward address book, links to Microsoft account, have turned me into a Viber user. Viber's user interface is clean and simple and the ...

Microsoft announced today that it’s launching a beta of Skype for the Web, allowing browser-based video chats that don’t require a separate app. “We’ve made Skype available on computers, mobile phones ...

It may be somewhat hard to remember — what with sporadically poor call performance, lots of other hardware to play around with and all those apps — that the iPhone is more-or-less primarily a tool for ...

Almost everyone I know has a Skype account, but pretty much no one uses it to message people. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

Tom Warren is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft is planning to allow Skype users to share their mobile ...