At the 2010 Electronic Entertainment Expo, Microsoft put Kinect's video chat capabilities front and center with a demo of Video Kinect. During that demo, connectivity between Kinect users and those ...

Microsoft this morning confirmed that it has acquired internet video chat company Skype for $8.5 billion in cash. And just like that, Microsoft has become a key player in the world of video chat. The ...

[Photo: MIT Media Lab] A quick show of hands: How many of you actually enjoy video conferences if you can’t be there in person? They can be kind of awkward when you could probably say what you want to ...