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Microsoft reads your Skype messages
A German security outfit claims it has evidence that Microsoft is reading user Skype messages. -
Obama plans internet wiretapping law
If he succeeds, the FBI and other agencies will easily be able to snoop on voice-over-Internet-protocol (VoIP) services such as those offered by Microsoft's Skype and real-time chat services. -
Hotmail is officially dead
The new Outlook email client has several different features from Hotmail, such as two-factor authentication, an updated calendar and app and integration with cloud service Skydrive and Skype. -
Mozilla fumes at British government surveillance spyware outfit
The disguised version of Firefox is installed and then accesses key-strokes, activate webcams and records Skype calls as Firefox, so that users don't delete it, Mozilla moaned. -
Chat apps whisper SMS' swan song
Services like WhatsApp, Viber, Skype, and Facebook Chat raced past SMS in 2012, with Informa recording 19 billion messages sent per day on chat apps - trumping 17.6 billion sent by SMS. -
Privacy International takes on HMRC
Once the user installs the software, victims' computers and mobile devices can be taken over, the cameras and microphones remotely switched on, emails, instant messengers and voice calls (including Skype) monitored, and locations tracked. -
Skype faces tough laws in Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia’s watchdog has claimed that Skype and Whatsapp flout Saudi Arabia's telecom laws. -
Saudi Arabia mulls banning messenger apps
Saudi Arabia might pull the plug on a number of popular messenger applications such as Viber, Skype and WhatsApp. The trouble with instant messaging apps is that they can't be censored and that's not what the House of Saud likes to hear. -
Blackberry steals Apple and Google customers
The large number of 'coming soon' apps such as Skype is a lingering annoyance for users but hopefully will be short-lived and resolved before full availability in the US, the report said. -
French watchdog bites Skype
French telephone watchdogs have ordered the nasty roast beef eating Skype to set itself up legally as a telco. -
Iran wastes time blocking VPNs
Iran tried to block VPN ports all over the country to stop citizens seeing banned sites like Facebook and Skype. -
Bing puts 'five times' more Facebook content in social search
Some observers suggested that when Microsoft bought Skype in a surprise move, the deal was actually about cosying up to Facebook. In 2011, we reported that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted integrating video calling with Skype was largely because the company was now with Microsoft. -
London's black cabs get free wi-fi next year
"With dwell times averaging 15 minutes in the back of a taxi, what better way to pass the time than to use your laptop, tablet, book reader or phone with guilt free internet access," Corbett said. -
UN fights back against Google propaganda
Google said some proposed treaty changes "could increase censorship and threaten innovation" and others "would require services like YouTube, Facebook, and Skype to pay new tolls in order to reach people across borders -
Android propaganda appears at Facebook HQ
Facebook also appears to be in an under the table deal with Microsoft, having integrated its Bing maps and translation services into the web app, while Redmond's Skype buy was also seen as a way to cement its position with Facebook when Google was betting the farm on G -
Skype kills off Windows messenger
Software giant Microsoft has decided to replace its Windows Live Messenger software with Skype. -
Germany spies on the internet after all
The German government revealed that its police monitor Skype, Google Mail, MSN Hotmail, Yahoo Mail and Facebook chat "as and when necessary" but very precisely. -
Bank "hacker" walks free from court
According to Nouvelobs, the man's brief Sipa Laudic-Hélène Baron said that in 2008, the man, who was unemployed, was trying to avoid premium rate numbers using Skype.
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