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• Online services increased their effort to protect user data, EFF says

  By Loek Essers | 01 June, 2012 12:13

  While some online services are stepping up their efforts to protect private user data from government requests, there is plenty room for improvement, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) said on Thursday. It is time for all companies that hold private user data to make public commitments to defend their users against government overreach, the foundation said.

• Angry Birds tops companies' app blacklist

  By Brad Reed | 16 May, 2012 05:35

  It seems that your boss doesn't want you to launch digital birds at evil green pigs during office hours.

• iPad app built “from the ground up": LinkedIn

  By Patrick Budmar | 01 May, 2012 16:52

  LinkedIn joins services such as Facebook and Skype that have finally jumped on the iPad bandwagon with their apps.

• Skype investigates tool that reveals users' IP addresses

  By Jeremy Kirk | 01 May, 2012 12:40

  Skype said Tuesday it is investigating a new tool that collects a person's last known IP address, a potential privacy-compromising issue.

• Microsoft-Barnes & Noble deal could lead to Windows-based tablet

  By Matt Hamblen | 01 May, 2012 05:29

  Microsoft's new partnership with Barnes & Noble could lead to development of a Windows-based tablet or e-reader, not just a Nook e-reader application for Windows 8, some analysts believe.

• APP OF THE DAY: Skype

  By Patrick Budmar | 26 April, 2012 10:15

  It’s been a long time coming, but Skype is finally available on the Microsoft’s own Windows Phone 7 platform.

• Skype app released for Sony's PlayStation Vita handheld

  By Jay Alabaster | 25 April, 2012 16:43

  Internet telephony operator Skype has released an app for Sony's PlayStation Vita handheld game console.

• Skype app for Windows Phone released

  By John Ribeiro | 23 April, 2012 14:13

  Internet telephony provider Skype released its app for the Windows Phone operating system on Sunday on the Windows Phone Marketplace, a couple of months after releasing the beta version of the app.

• How Soon Will Your Mobile Video Chat Be Fantastic?

  By Howard Baldwin | 21 March, 2012 10:44

  Once cameras became standard equipment on mobile phones, it was only a matter of time before vendors realized that the foundation was there for using image-capture technology to transmit video. It's actually possible that by the time we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the AT&T picture phone shown at the 1964 New York World's Fair, video chat may even be commonplace.

• Microsoft restores access to phones that couldn't access Skype

  By Juan Carlos Perez | 17 March, 2012 10:26

  Microsoft has fixed a bug that made it impossible for about a dozen models of Skype-certified phones to log into the popular IM, VoIP and video-conferencing service.

• Some Skype-certified phones failing to log into the service

  By Juan Carlos Perez | 14 March, 2012 02:59

  Microsoft is investigating reports that about a dozen models of Skype-certified phones are having trouble logging into the IM, VoIP and video-conferencing service.

• Siemens launches new VoIP/UC platform, says it has earned another look

  By John Dix | 05 March, 2012 14:26

  Siemens Enterprise Communications, which has been rebuilding itself here in the U.S. for the past several years, will punctuate the idea that it deserves another look with the announcement Monday of Version 7.0 of its OpenScape UC suite that enables the VoIP platform to support up to 500,000 users.

• Skype launches GroupMe for Windows Phones

  By Angela West | 01 March, 2012 03:10

  Skype this week launched the GroupMe app for Windows Phone, following its August acquisition of the tool that enables free, real-time group texting. GroupMe lets you communicate instantly with up to 25 colleagues using chat, photos, and location sharing.

• Three questions for Microsoft's Windows Phone chief

  By John Cox | 29 February, 2012 04:28

  Terry Myerson, head of Windows Phone division, made a cameo appearance at Nokia's Mobile World Congress 2012 press conference, where Nokia announced a mid-priced Windows Phone, the Lumia 610.

• Skype for Windows Phone arrives in beta version

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 28 February, 2012 00:20

  Windows Phone users now have access to the Skype Internet calling service.