Toll-free numbers are a significant boost to a business's ability to interact with customers, and Skype is an emerging tool that helps businesses expand their reach across country borders. While Skype ...

Microsoft has cut two of Skype’s central premium features: credit and custom phone numbers. Instead of credits, the company ...

While MSN Messenger is all but defunct, ending over a decade of online chats, Skype has been filling its shoes fairly well. Now owned by Microsoft of course, Skype was traditionally a free way to call ...

In the days before cell phones and applications like the new Skype for iPhone, there was this thing called the hotel room telephone. Here’s how it worked. You’d pick up the bedside phone, dial to get ...

Skype today updated its Click to Call plugin, which lets you use Skype to make calls to phone numbers, with a new “Call from mobile” beta feature. Launching on Android first, “Call from mobile” lets ...

SEVERAL years ago, your correspondent found his telephone bill was getting out of hand and vowed to halve it. The obvious answer was to sign up for a free Skype account—and get the benefit of computer ...

Skype released its long-awaited app for Android. It's free and available for download now at Skype's website or the Android Marketplace for devices running Android OS 2.1 and above. But US users will ...

Skype is so popular that in some circles people use the name of the service as a verb. Yet most people use Skype only for making free voice calls, and for conducting occasional video chats between far ...

Skype is dead. What now? Microsoft’s shutdown of Skype on May 5 sent millions of users scrambling to find an alternative to the pioneering internet phone service. Skype, which Microsoft bought in 2011 ...