You might not be a polyglot, but in the 21st century, the language barrier is barely a barrier at all. And now, assisting in our communication efforts is Skype, which announced Tuesday that it has ...

Microsoft has announced that their Skype Translator app now comes with support for Russian, which joins the eight other spoken languages. This addition is a significant milestone for the app, as ...

Since launching last year, Microsoft has steadily been building out Skype's automatic live-translating ability, and making it even easier to speak with more people around the world. The feature, which ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. Skype users can now add Russian to the list of languages ...

A Russian hacker has reverse-engineered part of Skype's code and posted the results on the internet. His aim: to make Skype open source. Presumably, he forgot that Skype isn't his to make anything and ...

Russia's state-owned technology business, Rostec, is building a secure voice and video communications platform. In a statement, the company revealed that the system will be a "Russian analogue of ...

While Russian President Dmitry Medvedev urges government officials to get hip to technology, the FSB (Russia’s Security Service) has begun to clamp down on officials’ use of email and Skype to stop – ...

Until earlier today, Microsoft’s Skype video/voice/text messaging system had a security hole Vladimir Putin could ride a shark through. According to TheNextWeb, which broke the story, Russian hackers ...

Skype suffered a security breach early Wednesday morning, allowing hackers to hijack any of the service's 250 million users' passwords and create a new account, using only an email address. The ...

Be careful what apps you download, especially if you are in the Caucasus. Someone is packaging powerful malware in fake versions of popular Android applications such as Skype, Signal, and PornHub, ...