TechHive: Microsoft updates Skype with HD for iPhone and iPad, adds mobile BI app

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Microsoft updates Skype with HD for iPhone and iPad, adds mobile BI app Aug 12th 2013, 19:25, by Mark Hachman On Monday, Microsoft updated a pair of its apps, adding important capabilities to two different platforms. If you find yourself preferring Skype over Apple's own FaceTime on the iPhone 5 and fourth-generation iPad, good news: With Skype 4.1, Microsoft's Voice over IP app for mobile now supports HD video calls. Separately, Microsoft also added a "PowerBI for Office 365" app for both Windows 8 and Windows RT tablets, indicating that the launch of its "live data" service is imminent. Skype Skype for iOS 4.1 allows 720p HD video calling. Neither app directly influences the other, but both offer something important. Skype added video calls for the iOS version when version 3.0 of its mobile app arrived in 2010, periodically updating the app with support for Apple's latest phones and mobile devices. This is the first time that Skype has added HD video support for the fourth-generation iPad and the iPhone 5, though. In this case, "HD" equals 720p resolution. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Media files: skype_ipad-100049763-small.jpg

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