Familiar sounds, buttons, and platforms disappeared, replaced by new priorities, signalling how quickly innovation moves and ...

Skype, a maker of Net phone software, on Friday announced four partnerships that will let users of its product place calls to phones, rather than just computers. The company said phone carriers Colt ...

Just because US Robotics introduced a couple of Skype phones a few weeks ago doesn’t mean they can’t introduce another one, this time, the cordless USR9630. Its base station (can’t use the word “dock” ...

While I'm getting ready for Interop 2006, I got an interesting announcement in the mail from a Polycom representative. Ironically, Polycom will be missing Interop 2006 but they've somehow managed to ...

Microsoft has quietly ended the sale of new credits and phone number features for Skype this week. Skype Credit and Skype Number are both being discontinued in favor of Microsoft pushing subscriptions ...

At a time when major U.S. telephone operators are spending billions of dollars to expand, telephone software maker Skype on Tuesday says it's building a global phone network virtually for free. New ...

Skype is opening its VoIP system so businesses can hook up their internet-based phone systems to the popular service. Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) is an open standard that allows calls to be ...

Portable Wi-Fi/Skype phones have enormous appeal for Skype enthusiasts. Unlike the cordless DECT phones we’ve been reviewing here recently (see Related Articles)—which are really only practical for ...

Microsoft’s acquisition of Skype promised to be a marriage made in an integration heaven — especially for Windows Phones owners — but so far it’s been all talk and no action. A Skype for Windows Phone ...

Amid all the Build 2014 excitement on Wednesday about the new Start menu, Windows Phones, and universal Windows apps, Microsoft-owned Skype also announced some upgrades for Windows Phone users. Very ...