Skype is one of the platforms that popularized video chatting. Part of Skype's popularity is the flexibility to video chat using virtually any kind of webcam, from webcam hardware built directly into ...

Although Ubuntu and other modern Linux distributions handle most computer hardware with aplomb, some video cards -- especially new, state-of-the-art models -- are problematic. Ubuntu will generally ...

David Nield is a technology journalist from Manchester in the U.K. who has been writing about gadgets and apps for more than 20 years. He has a bachelor's degree in English Literature from Durham ...