Skype

Skype will help ease the pain of holiday travel this winter by offering free Wi-Fi at over 50 U.S. airports to certain customers.

Everyone wants to be in on the conversation, but sometimes distance can make in-person meetings hard. We tested five multiperson video chat services--Google Hangouts, Skype Premium, Tinychat, AV by AIM, and AnyMeeting--to find the best place to conduct a group meeting online.

Skype is working to fix a security hole in its iOS app for the iPhone and iPod Touch that allows a hacker to steal a person's entire address book. The vulnerability, located in the app's chat message window, can be exploited with JavaScript code. It was pointed out by security researcher Phil Purviance of AppSec.

What to do -- and just as importantly, what not to do -- in order to make a podcast that sounds good.

The controversy over India's demand that it be allowed to monitor online and mobile communications resurfaced again on Wednesday, with an Indian minister telling reporters that the government had asked Skype, Google, and several other companies to give it access.

Now be honest: do you really want to SEE some of your Facebook friends? Second, if there's a possibility these chats will be recorded, will you use the system?

Are you looking forward to using Facebook's new in-browser Skype-based video chat but still waiting for the service to hit your profile? If so, you can actually get started right now, and as you call your Facebook friends they will also be prompted to activate the new service. The process to get started is actually pretty straightforward, but in my tests I did find a slight hiccup that may prove frustrating to some users.

Facebook announced a new Skype-powered video chat service and a group text chat feature today, in a clear response to similar features included in the Google+ social networking service launched last week. The video chat feature received most of the attention here today.

Skype might have a hard time keeping itself relevant now that Google has introduced its new video chat service embedded in Google+ called Hangouts. Google+ Hangouts boasts a slick interface, doesn't require additional downloads and best of all it's free ... if you can score an invitation, that is.

Skype is set to unveil a video chat app for the iPad tomorrow, a move that brings rivals Apple and Microsoft closer.

Eight Skype executives have departed the company following Microsoft's $8.5 billion buyout in May, a Skype spokeswoman confirmed on Monday.

Microsoft has received clearance from U.S. antitrust regulators for its proposed purchase of Internet telephony company Skype.