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The beast is back: The FCC’s net neutrality case gets its day in court
Verizon is arguing its net neutrality lawsuit Monday, and the case is important for consumers, web service providers and could even call the FCC's ability to regulate the internet into question. This...
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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...
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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. Skype exec Mark Gillett leaves Microsoft to return to Silver Lake...
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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...
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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. How to manage the customer experience...
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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 new 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. Sponsored Research: How empowering workers enhances business communication...
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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...
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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. Hey...
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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. Viber takes its battle against Skype...
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Why videoconferencing is critical to business collaboration
Cloud-based videoconferencing that offers high fidelity and the ability to connect seamlessly to any video end point is critical to businesses because it increases employee engagement. This report was...
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Dear politicians: These days, everything is communications, and you are not...
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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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. MSN Messenger to shut down in China, its final stronghold originally...
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Russian lawmakers propose then immediately shelve plan that would limit...
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"...
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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. Microsoft unveils Lumia 535 Windows Phone with...
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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 called Skype Translator which will translate communications from users using different languages in near real-time -- that is, as you're...
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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...
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