By exploiting a security flaw in Skype, security researchers are able to identity the user, track his location as well as monitor his P2P activities.

Remember that earlier this year, Microsoft announced that it would acquire Skype for US$8.5 billion? That deal has officially closed, and the voice call and chat service giant is now a new business unit in Microsoft.

Persistence has paid off for Microsoft as the European Commission approves its buy over of Skype, a marked turnaround in their less-than-cordial relation.

Skype releases a new version for the Iphone and Ipad which might turn out to be a double edged sword. While it does offer improvements over the previous version, there are extra costs as well in the form of advertisements.

More signs that the group messaging scene is exploding? Microsoft is looking to join in the group messaging party via Skype, who agreed to acquire group messaging app GroupMe.

Dedicated applications for Facebook, foursquare, Skype, and Twitter to PS Vita will be introduced.

It's official: Facebook will be introducing video chat functionality to its social network through Skype. Some sees this as a rebuttal against the recently launched Google+'s integrated video chat feature.

Skype brings video calling to Android phones by announcing an updated version of its Skype for Android app.

Skype is empowering consumer electronic and desktop software innovators to embed Skype into their products, by making its SDK called SkypeKit available.

Skype announces that it is providing silicon vendors with a new standard interface for communication to H.264 encoding cameras.