Report: No fee to play used Xbox One games, Skype powers voice chat
Joystiq
"Skype can also be used to call any of your Skype contacts for voice or video chat exclusively or while playing a game. Additionally, we have improved the Kinect hardware, from microphone configuration to dedicated audio processing, which contributes ...
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Skype Beta Plugs IP Resolver Privacy Leak
Krebs on Security
A few months ago, I warned readers that a glaring privacy weakness in voice-over-IP telephony service Skype allows anyone using the network to quickly learn the Internet address of any other Skype user. A new beta version of the popular Microsoft ...

Microsoft's Linux app, Skype, gets updated
ZDNet
Installing Skype on Linux is very straight-forward. Microsoft provides detailed instructions for most popular Linux distributions including, CentOS, Debian, Fedora, openSUSE, and Ubuntu. Many Linux distributions are also now including Skype in their ...

Attackers use Skype, other IM apps to spread Liftoh trojan
SC Magazine
The messages appear as if they are coming from someone on the user's Skype contact list who is linking to a photo. If clicked, the link redirects users to 4shared.com, which is hosting a URL, which initiates a weaponized zip file containing Liftoh. The ...

Rumor: Xbox One to feature Skype remote play
Joystiq
Rumor has it that Microsoft's Xbox One console will feature remote play through Skype, allowing someone to remotely take over gameplay on the local console directly from a Skype call. Either player may break the remote play session at any time ...

UK firm promises Skype-style Bitcoin exchange
CoinDesk
Turrall likened it to a Skype for cryptocurrency exchanges. Just as Skype decentralized the VoIP network, so this will fragment and distribute the exchange of cryptocurrencies. But unlike Skype, which is proprietary, this will be an open protocol ...

Girl hangs self while boyfriend watches in horror over Skype
Oneindia
On Wednesday, around 8 pm, she was having a video chat with her boyfriend, Swapnil Surve (28), on Skype on her laptop when an argument broke out between them. An angry Shobana allegedly told Swapnil that she was going to end her life, police officials ...

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Skype faces trouble on both desktop and iPhone
BGR
It's no surprise that AIM and Yahoo Messenger are collapsing, with unique visitor counts declining by about 30-40% year on year, according to comScore. But it is fascinating that Skype (-12%) and Google Talk (-15%) are now losing ground now. There is ...

Skype for Linux 4.2 aims to deliver more polish
PCWorld (blog)
It's been almost a year since Microsoft moved its newly acquired Skype for Linux out of beta with the release of version 4.0, surprising more than a few Linux fans with its apparent commitment to maintaining a telephony client for the free and open ...

Microsoft may be scanning your Skype messages
PCWorld
If you have any expectations about the privacy of your Skype communications, you may want to reassess them. Microsoft appears to be peeking into Skype messages for security reasons, according to Ars Technica. The owner of Skype regularly scans the ...
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Think your Skype messages are secure? Nope, microsoft is reading Skype ...ITworld.com
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