MICROSOFT NEAR TO BUY SKYPES

Microsoft Corp is close to buying Web video conferencing service Skype Technologies for $8.5 billion including debt.This move has the intention to compete with rivals such as Apple Inc and Google Inc.
Skype is a software application that allows users to make voice calls over the Internet, this would be a very big asset to the company.


Facebook and Google Inc were separately considering a tie-up with Skype, two sources with direct knowledge of the discussions previously told Reuters.But this time the Microsoft Corp has the more probability to come out with the negotiations.

Microsoft already has video chat as a function in its Windows Live Messenger service, but it is not available on its Windows Phone 7 software.

Skype also makes versions of its own service which can be used as an app on the iPhone and iPad, Research in Motion's BlackBerry and Android phones. It cannot be used on Microsoft phones.

But if the buying get  possible more features would be offer by Microsoft thru Skype relating to internets, using the phones and others.

BIN LADEN WAS DEAD

The death of the leader of Al-Quaeda Osama Bin Ladin has come to a doubt wether the news is true or not. Although US President  Barrack Obama has released an official statement regarding the raid of US troops at Pakistan that leads to the killing of the said terrorist.

"Tonight, I can report to the American people and to the world that the United States has conducted an operation that killed Osama bin Laden, the leader of Al-Qaeda, and a terrorist who's responsible for the murder of thousands of innocent men, women and children," Obama said in a late night White House address.

Obama said he had directed covert, helicopter-borne US armed forces to launch an attack against a heavily fortified compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan on Sunday acting on a lead that first emerged last August.

But because of the release of certain videos prior to the raid gave a strong facts that Bin Ladin has already captured and killed.Nevertheless, its a big  shame to the White House if the report was not reliable.