Users of Skype’s Internet telephony service can now create free conference calling with up to 500 participants on each call under a new service offered with VOIP (voice over Internet Protocol) vendor ...

Skype, the pioneering online video calling service that has been around for more than two decades, will go offline for good after Monday. Microsoft, which owns Skype, announced in February that the ...

Microsoft is closing down Skype, the video-calling service it bought for $8.5 billion in 2011 and which had helped spark a ...

Skype Technologies SA is piloting a new community conference call service, which can support as many as 100 callers, and is also offering a beta version of its new Internet calling software designed ...

Last September I talked about how businesses use Skype for free teleconferencing in “Another IM-VoIP Advantage.” Limitations in Skype conferencing include a maximum of five total users, only one of ...

Skype announced at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas that it will support video calls on PCs in 720p high definition, as well as Skype software embedded into Internet-connected widescreen ...

Skype Technologies plans to turn intimate get-togethers into block parties through an audioconferencing service that will allow for conferences with as many as 500 callers. The popular VOIP (voice ...

Sometimes web-based services and sites get sold for eye-catching amounts of money. But Microsoft's proposal to buy Skype for $8.5 billion - yes, that's a "b" - caught even the most jaded techies ...