The folks from Raketu have been unrelenting in trying to get me to cover what they believe to be breakthroughs in both feature-set and underlying architecture for a universal "communications client." ...

Skype's principal architect explained in an email on Sunday why the company redesigned its backend infrastructure, which many have claimed made it easier for governments to wiretap calls. Skype ...

Skype has announced that around 30-percent of its regular user-base is now able to connect to the VoIP and video conferencing service, after downtime issues that began yesterday. According to the ...

The following content is from an older version of this website, and may not display correctly. Skype has moved all of the “supernodes” that are the workhorses within the popular online voice and video ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. One hazard of new mass-market consumer technologies is that they make geeks of us all. So it is with Skype, ...

Skype replaces P2P supernodes with Linux boxes hosted by Microsoft (updated): Microsoft has overhauled the structure of Skype, replacing peer-to-peer supernodes made up of ordinary users with about 10 ...

Microsoft has drastically overhauled the network running its Skype voice-over-IP service, replacing peer-to-peer client machines with thousands of Linux boxes that have been hardened against the most ...