San Jose-based eBay Inc. has unloaded Skype Technologies — the world leader in Internet telephony that in recent years morphed into a white elephant for the online payments giant — ahead of schedule ...

Microsoft has released a new version of Skype for Windows Phone, marking the first non-beta version available for Microsoft’s Windows Phone platform, Skype 1.0. Skype 1.0 for Windows Phone is designed ...

Skype has announced the availability of its free Skype for Windows Version 1.0 software. Skype 1.0 includes SkypeOut, Skype's first commercial consumer offering, enabling Skype users to call any phone ...

Mary Jo Foley has covered the tech industry for 30 years for a variety of publications, including ZDNet, eWeek and Baseline. She is the author of Microsoft 2.0: How Microsoft plans to stay relevant in ...

The coding monkeys at Skype have been hammering away all night on their tiny monkey keyboards to bring us three new versions of the voice-over-IP call-meister. Skype 3.0 for Windows Mobile is out of ...

All good things come to an end. Jeff Teper, president of collaborative apps and platforms at Microsoft, revealed in a Feb. 28 blog post that the company would be retiring the service in order to ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. In a move that's been coming for some time, Microsoft is gearing up to retire the Skype app for ...

Skype is widely regarded as one of the most successful tech companies to come out of Europe, but who are the people that built the company and where are they now? They’ve got their fingers in lots of ...

Last July, Microsoft announced plans to drop support for Skype on Windows Phone 8 and 8.1, along with several older versions of rival operating systems. A few weeks later, it further clarified that ...

The full gold version of Skype for Windows Phone handsets has been posted to Microsoft's mobile app store, with new features and more languages than in the beta edition. The free app, released on the ...