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Originally created as a vehicle for interactive communication, social media sites, particularly social networking sites, appear to be evoking a dynamic alteration in the way we interact and react to...
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Skype to Throw Ads at You While You’re Video Chatting
Social media is never one for missing out on a chance to get advertising revenue, so it’s surprising it has taken this long for Skype to make this move. Basically, Skype has realized that during video...
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Windows Accidentally Forces Skype on Business Clients
During a recent update from Microsoft to a large number business clients Skype was inadvertently placed on some of their customer’s computers. The original intention was to automatically update...
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Android Users Beware
If you have an Android and you want to set up Skype on it then be careful because cybercriminals are using a fake app to steal from you. Apparently a fake Skype app for Android, which is actually a...
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China’s TOM May Lose Skype Rights
Until recently the Chinese wireless provider TOM had been holding the operating rights to Skype within China. Those rights, however, have apparently expired, leaving the provider out of contract with...
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Is Skype Opening up Your Video Calls to the Authorities?
When you use Skype from now on you may want to be careful what you discuss. Apparently recent changes in how the company routes your calls may have been made to make it easier to allow law enforcement...
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Skype Just Got Better for iPhone 4S Users
The communications media site Skype has just introduced a much needed app upgrade for the iPhone 4S. A number of minor changes were made to the system for the iPhone 4S, but the most notable was a...
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Skype to Start Billing Your Service Provider
Apparently, beginning in October many Skype users will be able to combine their Skype credit purchases with their cell phone bill. This is thanks to a deal that the video call service has struck with...
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Skype Meeting Major Issues in Saudi Arabia
Internet messaging services which offer encryption to their users such as Skype and a few others are facing issues in Saudi Arabia. The country’s telecom regulators are demanding that it be given a...
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Skype Facing Legal Action Over Patent Issue
It almost seems like there isn’t a single social media entity that isn’t being sued right now. In fact, there probably isn’t, considering people go after the money and there’s a whole lot of that in...
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College Grads Want Jobs at Microsoft
The youth are our future so by extension their goals are a view of what may prosper in our future. Specifically I refer to what talented college graduates intend to do with their hard earned degrees...
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Even Skype Isn’t Safe From Government Snooping
PRISM sounds like some government super spy agency, doesn’t it? Well, that’s essentially what it is except it is spying on its own populous not some evil despot or tyrant over seas. The news broke...
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Skype Was Never Meant to Be a Messenger Service
It seems to be the story of history that many great things came about by accident. Some might know, for instance, that penicillin was discovered via a botched experiment and artificial sweeteners came...
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Skyping on Top of the World
When someone sets out to climb Everest that very feat in itself is extremely ambitious and impressive. However, what if someone set themselves an extra goal? Well, airline pilot Daniel Hughes, who is...
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Skype Gets a Digital Rosetta Stone
Known more commonly today as a system that teaches languages, the original Rosetta Stone was an Egyptian slab which unlocked the language of the ancients. The same passage of text was written on this...
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Skype Turns 10 and Announces 3D Plans
When I try and think back a decade I almost feel like it was a simpler time and most of the things we have today were just pipe dreams. So imagine my surprise when I realized that video calling site...
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Doctor Uses Skype to Treat Patients, Gets in Trouble
The power of video calling from such sites as Skype has, without question, helped in a variety of professions, but could it be going too far? The reason I ask this question is that it would appear...
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Skype Banned in Pakistan’s Sindh Province
Apparently Skype and sites like it are hotbeds of militant activity in Pakistan and as such the government wants to do something about it. It would appear that Pakistani officials feel that recent...
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Skype Takes Back Control From Third Party Apps
Well, it looks like Skype is making a pretty big move in reigning in their site and gaining back a little bit of the control they had lost over themselves. Over the past 9 years or so there have been a...
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Skype Cleared of Data Violations in Luxembourg
Well, it didn’t take very long for Luxembourg data protection watchdogs to decide that Skype was not guilty of any wrong doing. Just a month ago we wrote about how Luxembourg’s data commissioner was...
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