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I don’t normally check my Hotmail account since I am now a heavy Google user, but I received an “Important” email from Microsoft regarding my Messenger account. I suspect if you have a Hotmail account you’d have received the same email too which announced sadly the discontinuance of Messenger come the 15th March, 2013. Sad [...]
January 15th, 2013 by Anthony West
Skype has seen its fair share of competitors in recent years and many thought that when Microsoft acquired the company last year, the popular VOIP platform would see a decline in its popularity. Well, the so-called ‘Microsoft effect’ hasn’t materialized and Skype is now more popular than ever; in fact, many would argue that the [...]
October 16th, 2012 by Anthony West
It’s International Technology Upgrade (ITU) week but that fact is lost on almost half of consumers, which it turns out, are notorious for not upgrading software. The ITU initiative is a joint effort between Skype, Symantec and TomTom who have found that half of consumers either don’t care about software upgrading or just simply forget. [...]
August 11th, 2012 by Anthony West
Skype has grown so much in the last few years that it has started to rival mainstream phone companies with its VOIP protocol. This dominance of Skype is very noticeable in the area of international calling. In 2011 it is estimated that Skype logged over 47 billion minutes in international calls, as opposed to the [...]
July 31st, 2012 by Anthony West
It seems any relationship built on the back of Android seems to prosper. Skype is the latest to see such massive benefits and the company which was bought by Microsoft the other day is reporting massive popularity on the Google owned mobile operating system. According to a release from the company Skype for Android has [...]
July 17th, 2012 by Anthony West
Technology has changed the way people communicate in drastic ways. What happened to snail mail, or even a phone call on the house phone or talking in person? Those types of communication are not extinct but they are certainly put on the back burner with the more advanced ways of communication today. It is so [...]
May 29th, 2012 by Daniel Renfro
It looks like the acquisition of Skype by Microsoft has produced the Midas effect, because since the $8.5 billion purchase, Skype has been breaking record after record. Last February Skype stunned the tech world by announcing a whopping 32 million concurrent users. That announcement was a big deal, so you can imagine the fanfare that [...]
April 27th, 2012 by Anthony West
Ever use Skype and see a huge number at the bottom of the window telling you how many people are online? Well, if you’ve ever noticed that number you’ll see it dangling near the 20 million users logged in mark. That number has hit a new milestone and Skype is announcing that a whopping 32 [...]
March 9th, 2012 by Anthony West
Microsoft recently got approval from the EU in regards to acquiring Skype, and just six days after this approval Microsoft has announced that they will be adding Skype to their business divisions. The actual purchase took place back in May of 2011 but it had to go through various approvals before it was able to [...]
October 22nd, 2011 by Daniel Renfro
Video chatting on the web has drastically changed how people communicate around the world. Long distance relationships were made easier, perhaps people serving our country over seas are able to see their families, and just day to day personal relationships are able to remain in touch. Microsoft has recently purchased Skype for somewhere in the [...]
October 13th, 2011 by Daniel Renfro
Here’s a business plan that is the dream of very tech entrepreneur out there: “start a company, and then sell it 12 months later to one of the biggest companies in Silicon Valley”. That idea might seem far-fetched but that is exactly what group messaging service GroupMe has managed to do. In what has to [...]
August 23rd, 2011 by Anthony West
Last Tuesday, Skype launched an app optimized for Apple’s iPad. It got a warm reception from those who managed to download it from iTunes. It is a free app with a 16 MB file size. It lets the user use Wi-Fi or 3G to call mobile phones or landlines; or chat with other desktop or [...]
August 5th, 2011 by Debbie Parker
As the battle for online supremacy rages on, the two main protagonists, Facebook and Google, seem to be scoring point after point. It’s becoming rather difficult to keep up lately. Facebook for instance has been very busy this past week, and its newly integrated video chat partnership with Skype seems to be a hit with [...]
July 8th, 2011 by Anthony West
Press across the country have begun receiving invitations from Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, which asks them to join him for an undsiclosed “event” on July 6. While there are still rumors and speculation floating around this special event, people with inside knowledge are saying that Facebook is planning on partnering with the chat company, Skype, [...]
July 2nd, 2011 by Edmund Wood
Just recently it was announced that Microsoft was buying Skype for the amount of $8.5 billion. Although both companies have agreed on the deal it still had to undergo an approval from the US Federal Trade Commission. The U.S. FTC has announced that it has already approved the deal which will make it one of [...]
June 19th, 2011 by Chad Buenaflor
Don’t fall for fake Skype profiles that would call you up and direct you to malicious web sites. It would warn you that your computer has been compromised and you need to install an antivirus program to fix it. Skype users are warned of the increasing number of voice spam. The best thing that you [...]
June 7th, 2011 by Debbie Parker
Skype users who have just recently recovered from last week’s login problems are now facing a new problem with their VoIP software. It seems that a bundled program called EasyBits Go is forcing itself to be installed which has irked some users. In the official Skype forum a lot of people have reported that the [...]
May 31st, 2011 by Chad Buenaflor
Industry analysts are expecting for the worst after Microsoft’s buyout of Skype. They don’t see anything good to come out from the merger. One of the reasons given is the software giant’s poor track record of service and product launch. For instance, Microsoft failed in the search engine market. In a period of ten years, [...]
May 29th, 2011 by Debbie Parker
