skype
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Microsoft Is Killing Off Windows Live Messenger For Skype
The Verge is reporting that Microsoft is trying to nix its Windows Live Messenger client in favour of Skype. That’s definitely for the best, and something we’ve seen coming for a while now. But it also smacks of some missed opportunity for Windows 8 and Windows Phone.
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Camera Turns Your TV Into A Skype Centre
Using Skype on your TV is kinda neat: it opens the conversation right up and makes group chats more fun. Now Skype and Logitech have announced a new TV-mounted camera that lets you do that conveniently — for a price.
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Is Skyping In Public With No Headset Obnoxious?
There are some perks to working as a blogger, and one of them is that anywhere with Wi-Fi is your office. Great! But often, like in a cafe, you experience outrageous behaviour.
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Skype Isn’t Abandoning Peer To Peer, But It Is Adopting Some More Centralised Services
Skype’s peer to peer underpinnings are one of those things that everybody knows about, but underneath the surface, Microsoft has made changes to the system; while it’s still peer to peer based, it’s backed up with, of all things, Linux supernodes.