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SkypeHide: Skype Without Being Monitored

a group of hackers at Warsaw, Poland’s Institute of Telecommunications have come up with an ingenious sub rosa method of communication on the service: hiding messages inside bits of digital silence.

Posted inAPP

Skype WiFi for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch

Skype WiFi (formerly known as Skype Access) is now available for iOS. With the new Skype WiFi app, you can go online on your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch (running iOS 4.1 or above with multitasking) at over 1 million WiFi hotspots around the world, including hotels, airports, train stations, convention centres, bars and restaurants.

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Skype Acquires Qik [video]

Skype will probably announce the news this week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, this source says. We’ve reached out to Qik and Skype for confirmation but have not heard back. This is a reliable source, however, who has been correct about big acquisitions in the past.