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Trojan pretends to be Skype update

News Cyber criminals are spreading a malicious Trojan horse under the guise of an update to Skype, email security firm MessageLabs said on Monday. The Trojan horse, a variant of IRCbot, arrives in an email purporting to be an update to Skype, the...

18 October 2005, 9:54

Nokia adds Skype to latest PC tablet

News Nokia has updated its popular Internet tablet PC with a range of improvements, including the ability to make Skype calls. Skype's software can be downloaded to the new tablet, allowing users to make VoIP calls from the device when they are within...

9 January 2007, 10:36

Mobile Skype fails to get connected

News Skype has announced it has no timetable for the roll out of Mobile Skype, due to unforeseen technical difficulties and a lack of suitable handsets. The Internet telephony company is developing the service for the Symbian operating system, used by...

2 October 2006, 9:43

New Skype phones lose the PC

News Skype on Thursday announced new cordless phones that will let users of its Internet phone service make calls without a computer or Wi-Fi connection. The new Phillips VoIP841 and Netgear cordless phones plug into a broadband connection and come...

1 September 2006, 10:18

Warner Music and Skype ring up deal

News Warner Music will deliver ring tones from its vast library to Skype customers, under a deal announced on Monday. US customers of VoIP (voice over Internet Protocol) provider Skype will be able to download ring tones culled from songs by Warner...

31 January 2006, 9:40

Dell laptops to include Skype software

News Skype's voice over Internet Protocol software that allows people to talk for free over the Internet will ship on Dell's new XPS laptops. The Skype software will be offered as part of Dell's audio/video communications package on the new XPS M1210...

1 June 2006, 9:35

IM-style Skype calls go mobile

News For the tens of millions of Skype users worldwide, talking over the phone is a free or cheap experience that has the BTs and Verizons of the world wondering how they're going to keep up. But with the exception of Skype's phone that can connect to...

9 February 2006, 9:25

New Skype for Windows gets off the ground

News Skype formally released on Thursday its latest Windows voice-over Internet Protocol (VoIP) service, which includes call forwarding and downloadable ring tones, pictures and sounds. Skype for Windows 1.4, first available in beta in August, lets...

30 September 2005, 9:35

'Phone calls will be free by 2015,' says Skype

News Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) will force traditional telephone companies to stop charging for voice calls and ensure emergency services update their use of technology, according to Skype CEO Niklas Zennström.

25 May 2005, 10:11

'Skypecasts' will enable bloggers to chat

News Internet telephony provider Skype plans to offer bloggers and others the ability to hold audio chats in the next version of its Net telephone product, co-founder Niklas Zennstrom said on Tuesday night at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco.

8 November 2006, 9:00

VoIP cozies up to mobile phones

News Skype, Vonage, IP Drum and other operators using VoIP software have caused tectonic shifts in the traditional phone-service industry. It's a product that enables mobiles to use Skype, arguably the world's most popular Internet telephony provider.

24 June 2005, 9:31

Nokia E-series phones get free VoIP

News In July, for instance, VoIP service Skype told CNET.cop.uk's sister site ZDNet UK it expects to see handsets with GSM, Wi-Fi and the Skype client on the market by the end of the year. In July, Skype-enabled Wi-Fi-only handsets were launched by...

12 September 2006, 9:22

'Second Life' to integrate voice chat

News But with the proliferation of Skype and other applications such as TeamSpeak or Ventrilo -- which users often pipe into Second Life and into online games such as World of Warcraft -- the technology has appeared more possible, and it seemed more...

28 February 2007, 9:32

Microsoft's online plans could rock industry

News Vonage, Skype and others have offered such abilities, but have done so for a fee. But what Skype and Microsoft are offering is really different, because the Vonage service isn't PC-based. AOL has also announced plans for paid VoIP services, as has...

2 November 2005, 9:53

Wi-Fi mobiles the next big thing?

News Motorola, for example, announced a partnership with eBay's VoIP provider Skype early last year. If all goes as expected, customers with Wi-Fi-enabled mobile phones would have the option of using Skype's service in place of a landline service as...

28 June 2006, 9:15

Format wars: The tech that should have won

Did you love Laserdisc? Were you bonkers over Betamax? Travel back in time with Captain Tech and check out the format losers that should have triumphed

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