While I'm getting ready for Interop 2006, I got an interesting announcement in the mail from a Polycom representative. Ironically, Polycom will be missing Interop 2006 but they've somehow managed to ...

Just because US Robotics introduced a couple of Skype phones a few weeks ago doesn’t mean they can’t introduce another one, this time, the cordless USR9630. Its base station (can’t use the word “dock” ...

Portable Wi-Fi/Skype phones have enormous appeal for Skype enthusiasts. Unlike the cordless DECT phones we’ve been reviewing here recently (see Related Articles)—which are really only practical for ...

At a time when major U.S. telephone operators are spending billions of dollars to expand, telephone software maker Skype on Tuesday says it's building a global phone network virtually for free. New ...

Koninklijke Philips Electronics NV has announced a new phone that allows users of Skype Ltd.’s Internet telephony service to make calls without having to boot up their PCs. The voice-over-IP (VoIP) ...

Bad news for anyone out there who still uses Skype: The Microsoft-owned phone and messaging platform has quietly stopped letting users top-up accounts with credit and buy Skype phone numbers. Instead, ...

Skype is opening its VoIP system so businesses can hook up their internet-based phone systems to the popular service. Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) is an open standard that allows calls to be ...

Its often hard to keep track of what exactly constitutes a phone these days. Never mind that the shapes and functions of cell phones change monthly, or that its now okay in certain cases to call a USB ...

Amid all the Build 2014 excitement on Wednesday about the new Start menu, Windows Phones, and universal Windows apps, Microsoft-owned Skype also announced some upgrades for Windows Phone users. Very ...