Gadgetwise Blog: The Return of the Videophone (Again)
A new company, telyHD, is trying to move video chats from the PC to the TV room with some new set-top hardware and a connection through Skype.
Gadgetwise Blog: Q&A: Improving Call Quality After a Skype Update
After upgrading to the latest version of Skype, check your computer to make sure your system’s drivers are all up to date.
Gadgetwise Blog: Line2 HD Adds Phone Features To The iPad
Line2 HD puts phone calls, texts and voice mail and email on a single screen, and offers a stack of other features as well.
Gadgetwise Blog: Line2 HD Adds Phone Features To The iPad
Line2 HD puts phone calls, texts and voice mail and email on a single screen, and offers a stack of other features as well.
Gadgetwise Blog: Q&A: Getting a Webcam to Work With Skype
How to get a recalcitrant Webcam to play nice with Skype.
Gadgetwise Blog: Skype Now Wants Your Landline
Skype, best known for providing phone calls over the Internet via PCs and the smartphones, now wants your landline too.
Bits Blog: Skype Buys GroupMe, a Mobile Messaging Start-Up
Skype, the Internet telephony company, plans to acquire a young start-up called GroupMe that offers group-messaging services.
DealBook: Tax Policy Change Would Bring Cash Piles Abroad Back Home
JPMorgan Chase estimated that 519 American multinational corporations had $1.37 trillion outside the United States. The Deal Professor offers a way to repatriate some of that money.
Gadgetwise: Q&A: Skype Videochats With a Group
How to set up video-conference calls using Skype.
Gadgetwise: Facebook Adds Video Chat and Group Chat, But Not Group Video Chat
Facebook’s new features-group chat and video chat-have yet to be combined, as Google’s Google+ has done.
Gadgetwise: Is Google’s Hangouts Its Killer App?
Most of the features in Google’s new social networking venture, Google+, can be found elsewhere on the Web. But Hangouts, a virtual chatting service, may keep users coming back for more.
Bits: Skype President Looks Ahead
The president of Skype, Tony Bates, discusses the need to keep development cycles at Skype fast under Microsoft.
