Marguerite Reardon started as a CNET News reporter in 2004, covering cellphone services, broadband, citywide Wi-Fi, the Net neutrality debate and the consolidation of the phone companies. Skype on ...

Skype, a provider of free Net telephony software, on Thursday released its first application for personal digital assistants, making good on an earlier promise to expand the range of devices that can ...

Microsoft has been toying with bringing texting functionality to Windows 10 PCs for a while now, and the company is still trying to figure out the best approach. As promised, Microsoft has updated ...

Skype hardware maker Ipevo announced on Tuesday the U.S. launch of the Solo, a desktop Skype phone that makes phone calls over the Internet without being tethered to a computer. Ipevo officials hope ...

Koninklijke Philips Electronics has announced a new phone that allows users of Skype.’s Internet telephony service to make calls without having to boot up their PCs. The VoIP phone, the VOIP841, is ...

Skype is adding a new default security feature primarily to protect gamers from their overheated rivals. The Microsoft-owned service recently announced it would start hiding users’ IP addresses by ...

When your request is complete, you’ll receive a notification on Skype with a link to view or download your file. Here lies a catch! The chat history you chose to download is available as a TAR file, ...