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It has now been posted pretty much everywhere around the internet: Microsoft is about to buy Skype for $8.5 billion. This is purely a mobile move in my opinion. Microsoft is behind the times with its smartphone operating system. Windows Mobile fell behind BlackBerry and Symbian, and all were taken by storm when the iPhone [...]

Due to Skype’s troubles with their service being completely knocked out when a bug in their windows client killed their service, they have just sent out emails to their users with a voucher for up to 30 minutes of call time. It’s probably only worth about $1, but still it’s nice to get something from [...]

It looks like the world is getting smaller. Skype has updated their Skype-to-Go service in an interesting way. You now get a separate, direct number for each contact you have. No more dialling your Skype-to-Go number and then dialling out from that (although that’s still an option). How does it work? Well, let’s say I [...]

Skype has released an updated version of their iPhone app, complete with iOS4 features such as multitasking. This seems to be a fixed update, following the error which caused Skype to recently disappear from all iTunes app stores. Now you can make and receive Skype calls on your iPhone seamlessly as you can leave the [...]

UPDATE FROM SKYPE: “Today, Skype just submitted a new version of its iOS4 build to Apple. In the process we encountered some difficulties. Skype will work quickly to get its current Skype for iPhone app back up as soon as possible.” Looks like it was just an updating issue. TechCrunch says that Skype has disappeared [...]

It seems that Skype and Fring are not getting along so well today. First, Fring made a claim that Skype was blocking Fring and in a subsequent blog post, called Skype cowards. Now that fring expanded capacity to support the huge demand for video calling for all users, Skype has blocked us from doing so. They are [...]

Skype has just announced that an updated version of its iPhone app has been released to the app store and now allows calling over 3G. While this functionality has been available on the iPhone since a January update to the SDK, and while other apps such as Fring have enabled 3G VOIP calling through their [...]

Just in on Twitter: Looks like Skype might make another inroad on a US carrier’s phones. Update: Skype Mobile for Verizon available Thursday

…and the movement to VOIP over 3G takes yet another step forward. Today, Nokia and Skype jointly announced that Skype would be available on Nokia’s Ovi Store. Skype for Symbian enables Nokia smartphone users to: – Make free Skype-to-Skype calls to other Skype users anywhere in the world* – Save money on calls and texts [...]

Skype has added a few Canadian area code numbers for its Skype-To-Go service. The area codes for now are 438, 514, 647, and 778 (so basically Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver). Skype-To-Go is a service whereby you can call a local number through your regular phone, which will allow you to use your cheap Skype long [...]