Microsoft announced Friday it will be “retiring” Skype in May, nearly 22 years after the web-based phone and video calling service launched ― and helped popularize the idea of free, internet ...

On Wednesday, electronics kingpin Sony launched a free web-based phone service designed to link users via their computer video-cameras. AOL, Yahoo! and others have long offered computer-to ...

Orlando, which is in the process of selecting a vendor for VoIP service, has budgeted $1.7 million to install a new VoIP system that would save at least $105,000 annually on phone service ...

Web-based phone-calling company Jajah Inc. has won Intel Corp.'s <INTC.O> backing for its bid to blur the distinction between phones and computers, the two companies said on Wednesday.

International calling over traditional phone lines is down, but traffic is soaring on Skype — the free Internet-based calling service. According to the research firm TeleGeography, the number of ...

Further regulation of Web-based phone services probably will continue as well. Legislation already has passed forcing Internet phone providers to connect emergency calls to local 911 dispatchers ...

Adding Internet calling would help Google put pressure on Microsoft and Yahoo, which both offer similar services, as well as Skype Technologies SA and Comcast. The number of American users of ...