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Microsoft’s Don Mattrick pulled back the curtain on the Xbox One at a live event at the company’s Redmond campus, and it wasn’t long at all before the talk turned to software. One application in particular has been the subject of speculation for months, and SVP Yusuf Mehdi confirmed that Skype...

This week the folks at Microsoft have let it be known that their next-generation console will be going by the name Xbox One , and with it will be coming Skype video chat for the living room. This gaming device is named “Xbox One” because Microsoft intends it to be an all-in-one home entertainment...

Microsoft has announced that the new Xbox will ship with a Skype app. About time for the company's console, which has so far lacked the firm's flagship messenger and VOIP system. As with everything else on the Xbox One the app is controlled with voice...

If you have any expectations about the privacy of your Skype communications, you may want to reassess them. Microsoft appears to be peeking into Skype messages for security reasons, according to Ars Technica. The owner of Skype regularly scans the contents of messages sent on the service for signs...

The new Xbox one will officially integrate Skype (including group chat), which you can even use while watching a movie or playing a game. Read more...

It may have taken two years and a new console generation, but Microsoft is finally making good on an old promise: Skype is coming to Xbox. Microsoft has been planning to port the internet telephony service to its home console since it purchased Skype back in 2011, but it never surfaced on the Xbox...

The new game console also includes voice recognition to switch between programs and technology that allows users to run multiple programs at once. [Read more]

At its Xbox launch even today, Microsoft debuted Skype for Xbox, a new version of the communications service that lets you conduct HD video chat with friends using the Kinect's camera. You can engage in group video chats, as well as use the new Xbox's Snap feature to do picture-in-picture calls...

Considering that your Skype messages are being sent through a server before reaching the person on the other end, would you be utterly surprised if you found that your Skype messages are actually being read by the company that owns [...] Like It , +1 , Tweet It , Pin It Original content from...

Gov-enhanced hacking capability is bad, says PGP dude Heavyweights of the cryptographic world have lined up behind a campaign against proposed US wiretapping laws that could require IT vendors to place new backdoors in digital communications services.…