Microsoft boosts Skype for iPhone speeds 5X

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Cisco: Broadband providers should not treat all bits the same FAA sets first commercial drone flights Network World Daily News PM June 10, 2014 Share this email Microsoft boosts Skype for iPhone speeds 5X Using Skype on Apple iPhones will be five times faster than they are now with Microsoft's release next week of Skype 5.0 for iPhone. The goal of rewriting the app "from the ground up," says Microsoft in a blog, is to make Skype on iPhones familiar to anyone who has used Skype on Windows Phone and Android phones, but at the same time take advantage of features unique to iOS. +Also on Network World: iPhone 6 rumor rollup for the week ending June 6 | Skype-based malware shows how 'peculiar' malicious code can be +To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE   Issue highlights 1. Cisco: Broadband providers should not treat all bits the same 2. FAA sets first commercial drone flights 3. Hackers behind iPhone ransom attacks arrested in Russia 4. 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