Video conferencing gets personal
With its roots in the Google development labs, and championed by companies like Facebook and Amazon, WebRTC (short for Real Time Communications) is an open-source project that has transformed ordinary...
View ArticleMicrosoft acquires Ray Ozzie startup Talko
Microsoft has once again stepped into the market and acquired a Ray Ozzie company. This time it is Talko, a Boston based startup that uses smartphone apps to help communities and workgroups...
View ArticlePeer to Peer connections are coming to Google Hangouts
Call quality and speed issues often make it difficult for users to fully embrace video and audio calling over the internet. To help solve this, Google has updated its video and audio communications...
View ArticleSkype attacked by new trojan: the T9000
A new highly advanced backdoor trojan that is targeting Skype users has been discovered by researchers at Palo Alto Networks. It is able to evade a user’s security software and has been dubbed the...
View ArticleSkype gets integrated into OneDrive and Office Online
So Skype announced today that its audio and chat functions are integrated into Microsoft’s Office Online, as well as OneDrive. This, as the company puts it, ‘allows you to stay in touch more easily...
View ArticleMicrosoft updates Skype for Web with new features
Last year Microsoft launched a browser based version of Skype called Skype for Web which allowed users to access the service without downloading a separate app. Now, the company has decided to update...
View ArticleMicrosoft updates Windows 10 with intelligent apps
This week in San Francisco, Microsoft is holding its Build 2016 conference. On Wednesday, CEO Satya Nadella announced that the company will be using the power of AI to improve its cloud and to create...
View ArticleChat apps waste RAN resources while idle, researchers claim
Communications apps such as Facebook, Skype, or WhatsApp are unnecessarily communicating with their network server when in idle state, wasting RAN resources (radio access network). Those are the...
View ArticleMicrosoft squeezes apps into Xiaomi, sells patents in return
Microsoft announced on Tuesday that it has partnered up with Chinese tech maker Xiaomi. Under the agreement, Xiaomi’s Android-powered smartphones and tablets will come preloaded with Office and Skype....
View ArticleEU wants to control mobile messaging apps like telcos
The EU is looking to exert greater control over online messaging tools such as WhatsApp and Skype. Documents seen by the Financial Times suggest that Brussels wants to treat such services more like...
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