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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 [...]

Check out this pcworld article on how to make Skype Out calls and have your google voice number show up on the other person’s caller ID. First, you’ll need a Skype account, of course. That’s free. Then you need to download and install the Skype software. Next, go to the Skype Features page, and sign up [...]

Steve Jobs just jailbroke the iPhone. It only took a few years, but it’s finally here: Multitasking for the iPhone. The single biggest drawback keeping the iPhone and iPod touch squarely out of the VOIP game was the lack of multitasking, and this summer, it will be coming. Today, Apple announced OS 4.0 for the [...]

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