{"id":162370,"date":"2016-04-20T08:27:16","date_gmt":"2016-04-20T06:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=162370"},"modified":"2016-04-20T08:28:42","modified_gmt":"2016-04-20T06:28:42","slug":"skype-bots-now-available-on-mac-and-web","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/162370-skype-bots-now-available-on-mac-and-web.html","title":{"rendered":"Skype Bots now available on Mac and Web"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.skype.com\/2016\/04\/19\/skype-bots-now-available-on-mac-and-web\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Skype has released preview Skype Bots<\/strong><\/a> on Mac and Web, promising to bring expertise, products, services, and entertainment to daily messaging on Skype.<\/p>\n<p>This follows the launch of a new Skype client for Windows, Android, iPhone, and iPad, which brought the Skype Bot experience to users.<\/p>\n<p>The company said Skype Bots is initially available through messaging, and in the future will be available for audio and video calling.<\/p>\n<p>Skype said this is only the beginning. \u201cWe can shape what it looks like to shop, play a game, order food, schedule meetings, book trips, control your smart home, and more\u201d.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Skype<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/157957-skype-ending-support-for-smart-tvs.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Skype ending support for smart TVs<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/154372-new-trojan-can-record-your-skype-conversations.html\"><strong>New trojan can record your Skype conversations<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/152015-free-skype-group-video-calling-on-android-and-ios.html\"><strong>Free Skype group video calling on Android and iOS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Skype has released preview Skype Bots on two additional platforms: Mac and Web.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":139216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[36,1089,36758],"class_list":["post-162370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-active","tag-skype","tag-skype-bots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162370"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162438,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162370\/revisions\/162438"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}