Video Makes Skype 4.0 Grow Bigger, Wider

Skype, the peer-to-peer VoIP provider and a division of eBay, wants to grow up ??? both as a company and as a communications utility. To that end, it is launching the beta version of its latest Skype client software. Josh Silverman, the company’s new CEO, acknowledged that from a usability standpoint, things hadn’t changed much, even as Skype kept adding more features such as embedding third-party plug-ins. Skype needed a better, easier and cleaner client â€" and Skype 4.0 beta, likely to be ava