From the news release, ?Skype will become a new business division within Microsoft, and Skype CEO Tony Bates will assume the title of president of the Microsoft Skype Division, reporting directly to Ballmer.? This settles fears that Skype would be broken for parts, divided among the Live, entertainment, and business product divisions. Product [...]
Microsoft bought Skype because Skype has 180 million people actively video calling. It doesn’t hurt that Skype basically pays for itself and is growing faster than Microsoft. As cities move to 4G/5G and fiber: You want to offer people video chat at home, at school, and at work. Mobile phones, tablets, desktops, game [...]
Skype?s security chief, Adrian Asher, blogged about today?s Skype for Mac update on Skype?s Security blog. He explains that Skype?s approach to delaying the release of a new exploit?s details until after a patch is widely distributed minimizes the risk of the exploit being abused. Adrian?s post follows nicely after Dan?s critique of Skype [...]
Every company deals with the public face of security problems. Dan York observes Skype?s awkward communication about the discovery, reporting, patching, and disclosing of a vulnerability. They are not alone; this breakdown in the safety conversation happens every day. So is Security PR becoming a specialized discipline? I could imagine security communications specialists… [...]
Skype posted their update to Skype for Mac. Download it now for security updates (although which ones are not specified), minor bug fixes, and to resolve video freezing in high packet-loss networks.
I posted this answer to Quora in February. ?Would Facebook pre-IPO stock be worth more if pooled with Skype stock?? First off, Facebook doesn’t need to buy Skype to get Skype features in 2011. Skype would be delighted if Facebook drove customers to create Skype accounts and chat/call from within the Facebook mobile [...]
Beecher Tuttle speculated Skype bought the assets of group text startup 3Jam. Skype?s texting features are… uninspiring? Hiring 3Jam?s Enlai Chu might fix that. Or is it feature creep? CallByText compromises Skype security, requiring your Skype name and password, setting you up for identity theft. (Thanks, Hudson) Reuters reports Google and Facebook talked about [...]
Lee Matthews reported Microsoft Windows 8 will come with an app store. The story highlights struggles for power between operating system publishers, hardware makers, software developers, enterprise buyers, and the people who use software. Who controls the virgin computer? Microsoft struggles with PC makers over what software ships with Windows. Companies like Dell, HP, [...]
When titans of industry and state meet, worlds can change. The World Economic Forum launched a three year ?Rethinking Personal Data? project, including data portability. Their first report, Personal Data: The Emergence of a New Asset Class, shows their direction. A new asset class? That?s a telling use of language. Investopedia refers to [...]