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French Prime Minister Denies Tor and Public Wi-Fi Ban Demand
Earlier this week, leaked documents revealed that French police were pressuring President Francois Hollande (pictured above) to ban the Tor browser and to block public Wi-Fi in a state of emergency. Hollande’s Prime Minister, however, has denied that any such demand was made, and added that the French government would…
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Microsoft Apologies For Skype Outage and Offers Compensation
The Skype service is an essential component for many internet-based companies to communicate with industry contacts and share ideas via conferencing. Additionally, the software is a tool to help family members stay in contact across vast distances. As a result, any downtime on Skype can majorly impact on your business…
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Skype Receives a Universal Translator
Skype has just made it easier for people from all over the world to understand each other by introducing an advanced Universal Translator. Similar to the translator seen in the renowned Star Trek series, the system is now a part of the Skype app for Windows, and it will be supported…
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Skype Plagued by Network Connectivity Issues
The Skype client is currently experiencing a whole range of connection issues and sporadically showing contacts as offline. Skype has released a statement surrounding the network hiccups and clarified: “We have detected an issue that is affecting Skype in a number of ways. If you’re signed in to Skype, you will…
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Microsoft Announces Skype Business Preview for iOS and Android
We’ve heard that Microsoft plans on killing the old Lync app for business chat and meetings and integrate everything in Skype, namely Skype for Business. In a blog post, Microsoft today announced that it just released Skype for Business preview apps on iOS and Android, just months after it announced…
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Say Goodbye to Metro Skype App
Microsoft says that the Metro version of Skype is not that popular and it won’t continue with it. All users will be moved over to the Desktop version next month, having the Metro service close on the 7th of July. That’s in less than a month now, so wouldn’t an…
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Microsoft’s Surface Hub Aimed at Enhancing Your Workplace Productivity
Microsoft has always been dedicated towards business solutions and it now shows us that once again with its big brand new Surface Hub touch screen. The company aims to make your workplace more productive and interactive in a world where more and more business meetings take place on overseas conference…
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Skype for Web Rolls out in New Beta Version for US and UK Users
Have you ever been to an internet café or wanted to Skype a friend or family member from a shared computer? It is really frustrating when you try to use it and you see they don’t have Skype installed, isn’t it? Well, Skype just made things simple for you. Whether…
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These Eight Characters Crash Skype
Users have found a rather interesting bug in the popular voice and video calling application, Skype. The problem (now fixed in an update) caused skype to crash when you sent “http://:” via an instant message. Once the message has been sent, if you re-open Skype – it will instantly crash…
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Video Chat App Renders in ASCII Text
Video chatting online has become pretty good over the years. Two people can have quite a normal conversation with each other, from the other side of the planet. However, there’s some people who think this is just too good and that it needs to be worse. Much worse. I say worse,…
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Leaked NSA Documents Suggest Skype Traffic Surveillance
Leaked documents from the US National Security Agency (NSA), provided by Edward Snowden and published on Sunday by German newspaper Der Spiegel, show that the NSA has full access to traffic over Skype. That includes voice calls, video calls, instant messaging, and file sharing from specific persons of interest, and…
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Kim Dotcom to Launch Secure Video Chat Service
Internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom has announced plans to release an encrypted, in-browser video chat service through his Twitter account. The service, called MegaChat, will also integrate high-speed transfer of large files, through Dotcom’s Mega sharing software. Mega will soon release a fully encrypted and browser based video call & chat service…
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Skype Releases Preview of Translator App
Microsoft has today released a preview version of its Skype Translator app. The app uses a technology the company demoed some months ago now, where Sype has the ability to translate speech in realtime. The app is essentially that – while someone speaks, you receive realtime text-to-speech translations of the…
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Wire: The New Skype Rival Backed by Skype Co-Founder
A new upstart has entered the instant messaging arena, positioning itself as more than just a chat service. Wire, pitched as a thoroughly modern messaging app, is supported by Skype co-founder Janus Friis and developed by former Skype employees. With their experience – helped by former Apple, Nokia, and Microsoft…
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Barclays Announces Video Banking
Barclays has announced that from 8th December, a select number of its customers will be able to talk directly to banking staff at any time of day. The service will allow customers to speak face-to-face with a Barclays staff member, possibly one they’ve spoken to before, about their account and…
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