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Dear politicians: These days, everything is communications, and you are not...
Once upon a time, criminals and terrorists and pedophiles could only communicate face-to-face or by mail, telephone, SMS and email. Nowadays bad people have many new ways to plot their dastardly deeds...
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MSN Messenger to shut down in China, its final stronghold
Microsoft’s MSN Messenger, or Windows Live Messenger as it was known in most places after 2006, bit the dust in April 2013 — but not everywhere. It continued operations on the Chinese mainland, thanks...
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Russian lawmakers propose then immediately shelve plan that would limit...
In today’s segment of the rollercoaster ride that is Russian technology legislation, lawmakers proposed – then hastily postponed – a plan that would have made it difficult to legally call landlines or...
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Microsoft unveils Lumia 535 Windows Phone with no Nokia branding in sight
Microsoft has announced its first Lumia smartphone sans Nokia branding: the Microsoft Lumia 535, which comes in single- and dual-SIM variants. The new handset runs Windows Phone 8.1 and is clearly...
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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 — sort of — with the full release of Firefox 34...
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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 analyzed confidential documents obtained by the...
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Skype can translate spoken Spanish to English in near real-time
Microsoft started rolling out a new feature for Skype on Monday: Skype Translator will translate communications from users using different languages in near real-time — that is, as you’re chatting. At...
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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 offer a more secure alternative to Skype. The in-browser service...
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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 people to send and receive calls over Wi-Fi using their...
View ArticleWelcome to the Post-Email Enterprise: what Skype Teams means in a...
Work technology vendors very commonly — for decades — have suggested that their shiny brand-new tools will deliver us from the tyranny of email. Today, we hear it from all sorts of tool vendors: work...
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