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Stowe Boyd Sep 7, 2016 (Jun 11, 2020) -- The end of email?

Welcome to the Post-Email Enterprise: what Skype Teams means in a Slack-Leaning World

Work technology vendors very commonly — for decades — have suggested that their shiny brand-new tools will deliver us from the tyranny…

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Work & Collaboration
David Meyer Feb 26, 2015 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Reach Me feature nears rollout

Orange’s Libon app lets you take calls to your number over Wi-Fi

Libon, the WhatsApp and Skype competitor from French carrier group Orange, has an interesting new feature called Reach Me, which will allow…

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Europe, Mobile, Technology
David Meyer Jan 22, 2015 (Jun 11, 2020) -- More browser-based video chat

Kim Dotcom puts MegaChat secure Skype rival into beta

Kim Dotcom’s Mega has launched a public beta of its MegaChat end-to-end encrypted audio and video chat service, which it claims will…

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Technology, Work & Collaboration
Kif Leswing Dec 15, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Se Habla Español

Skype can translate spoken Spanish to English in near real-time

Microsoft started rolling out a new feature for Skype on Monday called Skype Translator which will translate communications from users using different languages in near real-time -- that is, as you're chatting on Skype.…

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Data Infrastructure, AI & Analytics, Mobile, Technology
David Meyer Dec 10, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Show us the money

Skype dragged into LuxLeaks tax scandal

Skype used Luxembourgish and Irish subsidiaries to avoid paying corporation tax for five years, according to a Guardian report. The newspaper, which…

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Europe, Technology, Work & Collaboration
David Meyer Dec 4, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Get a room

Firefox’s built-in Skype rival begins to evolve

Firefox Hello, the WebRTC-based video-calling feature that Mozilla and partner Telefónica revealed as a beta feature in October, hit the mainstream —…

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Technology, Work & Collaboration
David Meyer Nov 11, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Blog Post

Microsoft unveils Lumia 535 Windows Phone with no Nokia branding in sight

The Microsoft Lumia 535, a selfie-focused budget handset, is the first offspring of the company's Nokia purchase not to use the Finnish firm's branding.…

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Mobile, Technology
David Meyer Sep 24, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Blog Post

Russian lawmakers propose then immediately shelve plan that would limit SkypeOut calls

Russian lawmakers seem to enjoy introducing then backpedalling on crazy new ideas for controlling communications. This week's scheme would have forced VoIP operators to display the caller's "real" phone number when calling regular phones. Spot the problem.…

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Europe, Mobile, Technology
David Meyer Aug 29, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Blog Post

MSN Messenger to shut down in China, its final stronghold

It may have disappeared in the rest of the world last year, but MSN/Windows Live Messenger still hung on in China -- until now.…

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Technology, Work & Collaboration
David Meyer Aug 10, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Blog Post

Dear politicians: These days, everything is communications, and you are not entitled to everything

Lawmakers in some countries are updating traditional intercept regulations so they take in new kinds of communications channels. I don't believe they understand the implications of what they're doing.…

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Europe, Technology, Work & Collaboration
Stacey Higginbotham Jul 2, 2014 (Jun 10, 2020) -- Blog Post

5 things that you need always-on broadband to accomplish

Good broadband isn't just fast, it's consistent as I've learned in the last few months when my service decided to get a bit dodgy.…

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Media, Video
Kif Leswing Jun 12, 2014 (Jun 10, 2020) -- Blog Post

Improved Skype for iPhone looks a lot like the Windows Phone version

Microsoft released Skype for iPhone version 5.0, which brings performance improvements as well as a Windows Phone-style theme.…

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Apple, Mobile, Technology
Barb Darrow Jun 3, 2014 (Jun 10, 2020) -- Blog Post

Google Hangouts go corporate with integration into business apps

Need customer support? Want to interview a potential hire or work with your far-flung team on a document? There's a Hangout for that, says Google.…

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Cloud & Infrastructure
David Meyer May 28, 2014 (Jun 10, 2020) -- Blog Post

Skype will soon get real-time speech translation based on deep learning

It's been many years in the making and it may take a couple more before it's widely available, but Microsoft's research into real-time voice translation looks set to pay off.…

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Cloud & Infrastructure, Data Infrastructure, AI & Analytics, Mobile, Technology
Kif Leswing Apr 28, 2014 (Jun 10, 2020) -- Blog Post

Skype sets group video calling free on desktops, Xbox One

Skype(s msft) group video calling will be free on desktop computers and the Xbox One, said Microsoft in a blog post Monday. Previously,…

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Mobile
David Meyer Feb 19, 2014 (Jun 10, 2020) -- Blog Post

Silent Circle gets its first telco distributor, as KPN prepares to offer encrypted communications

The strategic partnership is important for Silent Circle, as it promises to make the encrypted Skype rival much more usable by widening its pool of users.…

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Europe, Mobile, Technology
Stacey Higginbotham Jan 14, 2014 (Jun 10, 2020) -- Blog Post

The winners and losers in the landmark net neutrality ruling

The courts invalidated much of the FCC's net neutrality rules. While consumers will lose, the winners may surprise you.…

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Media, Mobile, Technology, Video
Stacey Higginbotham Jan 6, 2014 (Jun 10, 2020) -- Blog Post

AT&T’s Sponsored Data plan isn’t the end of net neutrality but it is a new model for wireless

AT&T's Sponsored Data plan is a potentially new advertising and revenue model for the wireless industry. But is it a problem that regulators or startups should fear? Not on mobile networks.…

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Mobile, Technology
David Meyer Dec 18, 2013 (Jun 10, 2020) -- Blog Post

Viber takes its battle against Skype to Windows 8

The messaging service is now tightly integrated with Microsoft's PC-slash-tablet OS, although the recently-launched Viber Out feature doesn't appear to be included.…

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Europe, Mobile, Technology
Kevin C. Tofel Dec 13, 2013 (Jun 10, 2020) -- Blog Post

Hey multitaskers: Skype for Android tablets works atop other windows

It just got easier to hold a video call and work in another app on an Android tablet. Skype for Android 4.5 supports a floating window for your call, even when using a different application.…

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Mobile, Technology
David Meyer Dec 11, 2013 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

Why Microsoft shouldn’t celebrate Cisco’s European Skype defeat too much

The EU's General Court has dismissed Cisco's challenge against the European Commission's approval of Microsoft's Skype takeover. But it did so mostly because Microsoft is no longer the market-dominating powerhouse it once was.…

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Europe, Technology
David Meyer Nov 18, 2013 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

Privacy campaigners lose Luxembourg bid to censure Microsoft over NSA links

Luxembourg's data protection regulator says Microsoft and Skype's transfer of Europeans' data to the U.S. remains legal, despite the Snowden revelations about what happens to that data. It's a messy situation where neither side is, strictly speaking, wrong.…

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Data Infrastructure, AI & Analytics, Europe, Technology
Barb Darrow Oct 28, 2013 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

Skype exec Mark Gillett leaves Microsoft to return to Silver Lake

This is a return trip for Gillett, who joined Silver Lake in 2009. He's returning now as managing director and chief of value creation.…

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Technology
David Meyer Oct 11, 2013 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

Skype faces NSA-related privacy probe in Luxembourg — Updated

With its international headquarters in Luxembourg for tax purposes, Skype apparently now finds the little duchy's privacy officials on its back over allegations of NSA collusion, following a complaint by activists.…

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Cloud & Infrastructure, Data Infrastructure, AI & Analytics, Europe, Media, Video

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