Let's get the big pieces out-of-the-way: Tango.me is leveraging the Mango update for Windows Phone to bring its service to the platform. Microsoft helped them with the process. The company...

Read More: Tango to beat Skype in bringing video calls to Windows Phone

Skype has announced a partnership which will bring its calling service to users of Indonesia's largest mobile operator Telkomsel. The company, which was purchased by Microsoft, revealed that its Skype...

Read More: Skype is bringing its service to Telkomsel’s 100M mobile users in Indonesia

Just hours after Skype officially became part of Microsoft, comes news that the VoIP provider has removed Google Toolbar from its installer package for Windows. The release notes for Skype...

Read More: Microsoft deal complete, Skype ditches Google Toolbar from its Windows installer

Skype released updates for its iPhone and iPad apps that brings a much needed enhancement and a new feature.


Read More: Skype Updates iPhone & iPad Apps: Bluetooth, Video Stabilzation & New Bugs

One of the "big things" for major non-carrier players to do this year, it seems, is to have a group messaging product in their consumer tools checkbox. Google started things going with the Google+ Huddle group messaging feature (renamed to Messenger this week). Facebook launched Facebook Messenger soon after. And, now, Skype announced its GroupMe group messaging service.


Read More: Skype Added its Own Group Messaging Service: GroupMe

In case you felt like you didn't have any friends on Skype, that's all about to change. Today, Skype is launching Skype 5.4 for Mac Beta with the same Facebook integration found in Skype 5.5 for Windows.The new update lets you IM and connect with your Facebook friends without leaving Skype. You can read and update your News Feed, comment and ‘Like' your Facebook friends' posts – all within Skype for Mac OS X Beta. To connect to Facebook, simply sign into Skype, click on the Connect t [...]

Read More: Latest Skype for Mac Beta has Facebook integration and ads

Today, Skype is launching Skype 5.4 for Mac Beta with the same Facebook integration found in Skype 5.5 for Windows.The new update lets you IM and connect with your Facebook friends without leaving Skype. You can read and update your News Feed, comment and ‘Like' your Facebook friends' posts – all within Skype for Mac OS X Beta.To connect to Facebook, simply sign into Skype, click on the Connect to Facebook tab and enter your Facebook sign in details.Updating, please refresh.

Read More: Facebook now integrates with Skype 5.4 for Mac OS X Beta

Image courtesy of SkypeMost people who know of and use Skype use it's free video and voice chat that works across the Internet between two devices running Skype. However, you can also use Skype to make calls to any phone number at low rates using Skype Credit, and you can even buy a phone number to receive phone calls in Skype. The Skype app essentially turns an iPod Touch into a phone as long as it is connected to WiFi.

Read More: Skype Is Enabling iOS Users To Buy WiFi Access

So remember that one time when RIM co-CEO Mike Lazaridis kind of freaked out during a BBC interview. The fact that he flaked on the interview kind of overshadowed the reasons why he started freaking out in the first place — India. The Indian government has been tightening its control over social media and other forms of communication within the country amidst the rising threat of terrorism, RIM included. But the government is now looking to monitor communication on two of the most popular [...]

Read More: Indian Government Wants To Monitor Twitter And Facebook, Maybe Google And Skype Too

Skype's developers certainly have been busy. They released Skype for iPad earlier this week and released an update to Skype for Android today.Skype 2.1 for Android enables video on majority of Android devicesThe version 2.1 update shows the progress Skype's developers have made in dealing with Android's increasingly worse platform fragmentation problem. This update adds video calling support to 17 more Android devcies includin gthe HTC Evo 3D,HTC Flyer (tablet), Samsung Galaxy S & S II as w [...]

Read More: Skype for Android 2.1 Adds Video Calling Support for 17 More Phones and Tablets

At the end of June 2011, Skype added the ability to make one-to-one video calls over both WiFi and 3G connections to its Android application.

However, relatively few handsets were supported at the time, but now the company has released an update that brings two-way video calling to 17 more smartphones, including the HTC Desire and Desire HD, the Samsung Galaxy S and S II and Sony Ericsson Xperia devices.

Read More: Skype Adds Video Support For 17 More Android Smartphones

After a false start last night, the free Skype for iPad app is now available in the iTunes App StoreSkype for iPad is Available. Oops! It Disappeared (Social Times)Skype 1.0 for iPad (Skype Garage)Skype for iPad (iTunes App Store)I installed it on an iPad 2 and am unimpressed so far. Here's why.Skype for iPhone runs on an iPad. Granted, it does not scale to the iPad's large display without pixelation. But, it runs fine on the iPad. The new iPad specific version of the app does not add any functi [...]

Read More: Skype for iPad Initial Impression: Space Wasting UI. But, Users Are Happy

This has been the week of having mobile services and apps appear and then disappear. I noted earlier that iCloud was accessible using non-developer accounts for a short time. And, the long awaited Skype for iPad also decided to play a game of peek-a-boo.


Read More: Skype for iPad is Available. Oops! It Disappeared

Back in Skype's early days, it was adding users so fast that it liked to boast that it was "the fastest growing, globally available communications tool in history." Well, by at least one measure (registered users 9 months after launch), mobile video chat service Tango is outpacing Skype. Tango now has 17 million registered users across both Apple and Android devices, only 9 months after it launched. By comparison, Skype celebrated 9 million users on its first birthday back in 2004.

Today, [...]

Read More: With 17M Registered Users, Tango Is Growing Twice As Fast As Skype Did Its First Year

Skype CEO Tony Bates just took the stage at today's Facebook event announcing integrated video calling, group chat and new design today and revealed a number of new stats regarding video calling on the VoIP platform. Bates said that Skype users are averaging 300 million minutes per month of video calling. Bates says that 50 percent of Skype's traffic is video calling .

Back in December, Skype told us that video calling represented 40 percent of all Skype calls, so clearly the interaction with [...]

Read More: Skype Averaging 300M Minutes Of Video Calling Per Month; Represents 50 Percent Of Traffic

Tweet Welcome to our weekly edition of what's hot in social media news. To help you stay up-to-date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention.What's New This Week?Facebook Launches Video Calling Feature: Facebook and Skype have teamed up to provide video calling capabilities fully embedded inside the Facebook platform. [...]

Read More: Facebook and Skype Link: This Week in Social Media