Skype

With the advent of Windows 8 and the completely new look it has received, many are somewhat sceptical. But at the same time Skype has decided to change its look for the new OS with a "new full-screen immersive and uncluttered Skype experience" that should please, especially if you use ...

One thing missing from most social networking sites is the most basic form of communication: talking. Sure, conversations are happening all the time, but generally take on a written form as opposed to a verbal one. Online sharing platforms (that don’t involve actual speech) are increasingly becoming the commonly and ...

Take a moment and think about how you watched television last night. Were you glued to the screen, just you and the TV? Or did you sit phone in hand, scrolling through your social channels, replying to an email and Whatsapp’ing with your friend on the other side of the ...

iMessage doesn't work.Well, that's not entirely true. It works perfectly well as a traditional text messaging replacement. To a point.The first problem with iMessage is its lack of awareness.It's a simple broadcast bus (think back to parallel connectors used to transfer data between components or computers). At its launch, ...

Have you ever taken a moment in the middle of Skype conversation to think how many people might be using the service at exactly the same time as you? If you’d done so yesterday, the answer would have been 34-million.That number of concurrent users is a new record for ...

Nothing Microsoft has ever built, or bought for that matter, has ever succeeded in the social sphere. But what about Skype? Surely Skype should be counted as a social network. It fulfills many of the same functions that Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc.You can set a status "mood" message, you can ...

The announcement of Microsoft's Skype acquisition was greeted with scepticism,irritation and eventual happiness. Months later, the acquisition of Skype has now been finalised. The US$8.5-billion deal ended with a handshake and a smile from CEO Tony Bates who will now be named president of Microsoft's Skype Division.An official Microsoft blog, written ...

I remember the glory days of Facebook. We used to share voraciously on our news feeds. Our movements. Interesting links. Videos. It was where the conversation happened. Daily. And then came Twitter.The real conversation (and the real-time one) shifted to Twitter. The shift was slow to begin with, which made ...

I used to meet with Steve jobs in the 1980s, when he was lauded as a visionary. To be honest I wasn't that impressed with him.Sure, he deserved credit for the Apple I and then Lisa, which turned into the Macintosh but it was too early to tell what he ...

Skype has announced that it plans buy mobile messaging startup GroupMe, for an undisclosed sum of money.GroupMe is a mobile messaging platform which utilises a wireless connection for group instant chat on Blackberry, iPhone and Android platforms. One of the most prominent features of GroupMe's product is that it ...