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Microsoft acquires technology assets from Event Zero to enhance Skype for Business Online

Microsoft on Wednesday announced, that it has acquired technology assets underlying the UC Commander product suite from Event Zero, a company that currently provides…

Skype voice translator finally starts rolling-out to Windows users

On the back of experiencing some down time last week, online communication service Skype now has real-time voice translation for all Windows PC and…

Weekly Round Up #36: 4chan sale, Skype outage, BB-8 Star Wars droid and TomTom Bandit

Welcome to Weekly Roundup, our podcast discussing the tech trends, innovation and news from the last few days. This week on BurnCast, Stuart Thomas,…

Skype ‘working on a fix’ as communication service faces worldwide outage [Update]

Update: Skype is back up. Just a day after Amazon Web Services issues forced popular internet platforms like Netflix, Product Hunt, Medium, SocialFlow and…

Google’s barrier breaking real-time voice translator is almost here

The world is more connected than ever before. Yet, foreign languages still seem to be the biggest barrier to achieving a truly interconnected planet….

Microsoft reveals Skype Translate: a real time voice interpreter

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced that in the future Microsoft’s Skype will be able to translate voice and video calls in near-real-time. Nadella’s news…

The problem with iMessage

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…

New record for Skype as 34M people use it concurrently

Have you ever taken a moment in the middle of Skype conversation to think how many people might be using the service at exactly…

Microsoft finalises Skype deal, promises ‘amazing new experiences’

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…

The ‘Maker Movement’ will produce the next Steve Jobs

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…

Skype to buy GroupMe

Skype has announced that it plans buy mobile messaging startup GroupMe, for an undisclosed sum of money. GroupMe is a mobile messaging platform which…

Google Voice: Now available in 38 new languages

Google Voice, the Skype-like component within Gmail, has opened itself up to 38 more languages as well as many more countries outside the US….

Facebook add Skype video chat feature

Facebook has added a Skype video calling feature in the face of a direct challenge from Google in the social networking arena. “We think…

Microsoft and Skype set to allow backdoor eavesdropping

Skype and Microsoft have managed to leapfrog common sense and build a backdoor into your favourite VOIP application. It is called Lawful Interception and…

Skype video calling comes to Android

It may be a little late to the video calling party, but as the 800-lb gorilla, Skype can be. The VoIP behemoth has just…

There’s a little bit of Google in most of us

Google has been all over the news since Larry Page took over as CEO, I realised that there is a little bit of Google…

Is there a ‘tech bubble’ forming? [Infographic]

Depending on when you start counting, social media sites have been the world’s favourite shiny new toy for almost a decade now. Today, valuations…

eBay may use Skype money for acquisitions: CEO

Answering questions on what the company intends to with the windfall from the sale of its 30% stake in VoIP giant, Skype, EBay chief…

12 emerging market startups to watch

Emerging market startups are coming into their own and increasingly appearing on the radar of mainstream venture capitalists in established markets. Skype recently announced…

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