Microsoft is planning to double the number of people that can participate in a Skype group video call. The software maker is testing a new change to Skype that will raise the limit from 25 people all the way up to 50 participants. This is definitely a change that will help ...
Microsoft has announced that Skype will offer end-to-end encryption for audio calls, text, and multimedia messages through a feature called Private Conversations. Skype will employ open-source Signal Protocol to implement the encryption, which is set up so that only the devices sending and receiving communications in a conversation can hear or view ...
Microsoft and PayPal have announced a partnership that would enable peer-to-peer payments on the Skype mobile app. With the new Send Money feature, users in 22 countries users will be able to use PayPal directly from their Skype mobile app to seamlessly send money to other Skype users. The feature also includes options ...
Microsoft has launched Skype Lite for Skype users in India, and other emerging markets tailored to benefit users on slow network infrastructures across the country. "We're excited to launch Skype Lite, our fastest and smallest app to date. It was built in India, for users in India," announced the firm. ...
London-based international money transfer firm TransferWise has raised a $58m round led by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz's ANDREESSEN HOROWITZ for its global expansion. Horowitz will join the firm's board to help the firm which operates mostly in Europe, US and India to expand globally. If it fully launches in ...
Microsoft's Windows Live Messenger, originally called MSN Messenger, will be switched off in China in October after marking the end of its 15-year-old service. MSN Messenger came to China in 2005 though faced stiff competition from QQ messenger, designed by Chinese rival firm Tencent. After Microsoft purchased rival Skype, MSN ...
Skype has unveiled a new feature dubbed “active endpoints” which changes the way chat notifications function. The app has been designed in such a manner that it prevents users from getting annoyed because of constant buzzes and beeps. According to Skype, the new smart notifications will rather only be sent ...
Microsoft has announced that in the next few weeks version 7 Window Phone users will have to bid goodbye to Skype as it is being discontinued. “Skype will no more be accessible in any form on Windows Phone 7 sometime in the next few weeks. Additionally, those of you who ...
According to the Communications Authority of Kenya, international incoming voice traffic grossed 146 million minutes in the three months to December compared to 204.9 million, representing a drop 28.7 per cent. Kenyans in the Diaspora have now turned to free internet apps such as whatsapp and skype to communicate with ...
Pakistan is becoming an anti-internet country. September last year, it blocked access to Google's YouTube after it objected to taking down an anti-Islam film. Today,Pakistan's southern Sindh province has said it will block access to all internet communication networks including Skype, Viber, Tango and WhatsApp for three months as a ...
A new list published in African Innovator Magazine ranks Integr8’s joint CEO, Robert Sussman amongst the Top 20 Tech Influencers alongside that of Elon Musk, a founder of PayPal, Tesla and SpaceX, and South African entrepreneur and founder of Thawte Consulting, Mark Shuttleworth. Showing increasing quality and quantity of ICT ...
Technocrati.com Skype,a VoIP telephony Thursday launched a new online platform dubbed Skype in the workspace (SITW) in a move to help SME's promote themselves to the Skype population. The SITW will be available for free for all small businesses. The SME's can use the service ...
