VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) is a system for transmitting voice calls over the internet, rather than a phone line.

When Skype debuted in 2003, it was the first time I remember feeling that an individual app—and not just the broader internet—was radically disrupting communications. Thanks to its implementation of ...

Beginning today, Skype quietly vanishes from our desktops and smartphones. Its blue icon – once a beacon of international connection – will flicker out and disappear, leaving many of us to wonder how ...

If you can't connect to Google Voice on your phone, there are several ways you can troubleshoot the platform and your ...

The partners incorporated Hover Networks, which provides hosted voice-over-Internet phone service, the next day. " 'Thank you for the four years of education,' " Ascone said he thought at the time.

LONDON (AP) — Skype is dead. What now? Microsoft’s shutdown of Skype on May 5 sent millions of users scrambling to find an alternative to the pioneering internet phone service. Skype, which Microsoft ...