The smartphone has become the centerpiece of many students' digital lives. Yes, it can be a distraction, but it also is an incredible tool that can...
Ladies and gentlemen, the incredible disappearing Skype for iPad! Web-calling giant Skype released its first made-for-iPad app, only to pull it hou...
MEXICO CITY -- Two girls ages 4 and 8 were reunited in Mexico with their deported migrant parents Monday, after the couple was allowed to offer testim...
It's been a big couple of weeks for video and social networking. Last Wednesday, Facebook launched its Skype-powered video chat and the week before that, Google launched its Google+ social network featuring group video chats.
According to 311's Nick Hexum, the band's new album, Universal Pulse, with its premier single, "Sunset In July", is "kind of like the ultimate Summer jam, and about the experience of touring."
That seems to be the question on the minds of music fans in-the-know today when, just a day after Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg announced the social netw...
Circles vs. lists, +1 vs. "like" buttons, Hangouts vs. Video Calling: the Google+ v. Facebook battle is in full force. On June 29, Google launched ...
Facebook unveiled a video chat product Wednesday as part of its new partnership with Skype. But this isn't the first time a social network has team...
After returning from Facebook headquarters to hear Mark Zuckerberg make his "awesome" announcement, I had a chance to try out the new Facebook video chat which is powered by Skype.
A new version of Skype for Mac, version 5.2, has just rolled out. The new version features several updates from the previous 5.1 edition: Users wi...
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently promised that on July 6, Facebook would "launch something awesome" that the company's Seattle team ...
After all the public flogging this once proud public servant has undergone, doesn't there come a point when enough is enough? Not where most of today's media is concerned, it seems.
AMSTERDAM -- The Dutch parliament approved a bill Wednesday forcing mobile Internet providers to let customers use Skype and other rival services on t...
Just after the Federal Trade Commission approved Microsoft's purchase of web calling service Skype, Bloomberg reports that Skype will fire a number of...
-- The Federal Trade Commission is letting software giant Microsoft Corp. proceed with its largest deal ever, an $8.5 billion bid for web chat and ca...
NEW YORK -- Comcast subscribers: In the future, believing that the TV is talking to you might not be a sign of insanity. You may be getting a Skype vi...
Skype, the company Microsoft has agreed to buy for $8.5 billion, is reportedly experiencing problems--again. Skype acknowledged in a tweet posted T...
See update below Skype, which Microsoft recently announced it would acquire for $8.5 billion, recently suffered some downtime, with users worldwide r...
May 26, 2011 12:57:38 AM By Svea Herbst-Bayliss and Bill Rigby NEW YORK/SEATTLE (Reuters) - Influential hedge fund manager David Einhorn has...
SAN FRANCISCO — Internet calling service Skype has cancelled its IPO now that it's agreed to be sold to Microsoft for $8.5 billion. Skype serve...
The closest thing to a bubble in tech these days may be the rush to declare it a bubble in the media. Even if it turns out to be the case, it would be more luck than prescience.
Over the course of the recession, major companies have failed, entire industries have withered. But at least a few have not only survived, but grown. ...
Microsoft's founder, Bill Gates, has said he advocated the company's takeover of Skype, and urged other board members to support the move. ...
Another day, another media mega-merger. The latest? Microsoft is buying Skype, the Internet communications company, for $8.5 billion.
Chatroulette is like the Wild West of live social networking where deviant behavior becomes the unmonitored norm. Shawn Fanning's next big endeavor is a "live" social network site named Supyo -- Chatroulette done right.
