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Now that’s a chathead: Rounds adds co-browsing to its mobile video chat apps
Rounds, the Tel Aviv-based video chat startup, added the ability to browse websites while you’re chatting with each other to its iPhone and Android app Tuesday. Rounds was able to add the shared...
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Passing 100M users, Skype for Android now looks more like Windows Phone
If you don’t look closely, you just might confuse an Android handset for one running Windows Phone thanks to Skype. The Microsoft-owned company announced both a subscriber milestone and new version of...
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“One Microsoft” reorg aims to break down silos. Good luck with that
The long rumored Microsoft restructuring is here and, frankly, it’s both bigger and less flashy than I expected, because most of this stuff has leaked already (thanks, AllThingsD). The goal is to get...
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Skype says it will kill its Desktop API by end of 2013
Skype, the Microsoft-owned internet telephony service, is planning to kill its Desktop API (application programming interface), according to an email sent to developers by Chris Andrews, Head of Skype...
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Google Fiber, net neutrality & the regulatory challenges in the age of...
Google Fiber, the gigabit network that is live in Provo Utah and parts of Kansas City is facing its first big debate over network neutrality — it’s like a rite of passage for ISPs. As Wired reported on...
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Telefónica may have ditched its free messaging app, but Orange has big plans...
Telefónica may have axed its Tu Me free messaging app, but that doesn’t mean other mobile carriers who have been dipping their toes into the so-called “over-the-top” space are pulling out. Indeed,...
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Skype confirms 3D calls are in development
There are few things that really capture the imagination as future-tech, and one of them is 3D communications. The ability to be in two places at once, with the aid of a 3D projection, evokes images...
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Skype veterans out Fleep, an email and Skype chat rival for organizations
Thursday is Skype’s 10th birthday, so it is somewhat fitting that a bunch of the Estonian company’s former employees, frustrated with Skype’s deficiencies as a group chat tool for small businesses and...
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Happy 10th birthday Skype. You changed everything; too bad you didn’t change...
Very quietly today, Skype turned ten years old. Ironically, I didn’t even remember its 10th birthday. I forgot, mostly because ever since it was acquired by Microsoft, Skype as we know is slowly losing...
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Researchers solve that pesky eye-contact problem with video calls
Let’s face it: video chatting with someone is awkward. While we’ve all gotten used to darting our eyes between the camera and the screen, so there’s no real way to make eye contact with the person...
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The beast is back: The FCC’s net neutrality case gets its day in court
Update: For a sense of where one analyst thinks the court may be heading, check out this story. Lawyers for Verizon and the FCC are stepping up Monday to argue over the future of network neutrality...
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Skype faces NSA-related privacy probe in Luxembourg — Updated
Privacy officials in Luxembourg are investigating Skype over its links to the NSA, as The Guardian reported on Friday, and they could force the Microsoft subsidiary to stop passing citizens’ data on to...
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Skype exec Mark Gillett leaves Microsoft to return to Silver Lake
Mark Gillett, a corporate VP of Microsoft’s Skype unit, is leaving the software giant to return to Silver Lake Partners, where he will succeed Charles Giancarlo as chief of value creation, according to...
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Privacy campaigners lose Luxembourg bid to censure Microsoft over NSA links
The campaign group Europe v Facebook has decried a decision by the Luxembourg data protection commissioner, which found that Microsoft and its Skype subsidiary have not broken EU privacy law by sending...
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How to manage the customer experience through mobile apps
Mobile apps are now the first and most crucial step for developing and deploying a comprehensive and effective strategy to empower users and engage customers. Related research and analysis from Gigaom...
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Why back office in the cloud is the second wave of IT disruption
IT professionals inside the enterprise are driving a second wave of cloud-based IT disruption and displacement, which is aimed at the private branch exchange (PBX), the call center, and other core...
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Sponsored Research: How empowering workers enhances business communication
Improving enterprise communication starts with mobile devices and applications with benefits that span the organization.Related research and analysis from Gigaom Research:Subscriber content. Sign up...
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Why Microsoft shouldn’t celebrate Cisco’s European Skype defeat too much
Cisco has failed in its attempt to reverse the European Union’s approval of Microsoft’s 2011 $8.5 billion Skype takeover – but the thinking behind the verdict should dampen any Microsoft celebrations....
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Hey multitaskers: Skype for Android tablets works atop other windows
The Skype team added an innovative feature on Friday to the video calling app for Android tablets: A floating picture-in-picture window. This means you can use Skype video calls and still see the other...
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Viber takes its battle against Skype to Windows 8
Earlier this year, the Cyprus-based mobile messaging firm Viber became a full-blown Skype competitor by releasing a comprehensive desktop app. A version of that app is now available for Windows 8....
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