Rumors:eBay plan to sell Skype Google and Microsoft intends to take over

It is reported that there has been no profit as a result of the acquisition, eBay plans to sell Skype, Google and Microsoft for the snatch and instant messaging market, is likely to take over.

eBay in 2005 to 2,600,000,000 U.S. dollars to buy Skype, the auction is now trying to increase revenue, but in the nearly three-year period of time not only increased profits but its operating costs, so the market rumors eBay plans to sell Skype.

According to reports, originally planned to enter the instant messaging market, Google's intention to bid to buy Skype, and Microsoft has subsequently expressed the will want to buy Skype.

Skype currently has 370,000,000 users, the annual growth rate of 46% in the third quarter of 3200 increased users, an increase of 41%.

Yahoo next week to push the development of a platform to attract traffic

Yahoo plans to launch next week, the network platform for developers, the company hopes to provide similar to the Facebook social networking features, more site traffic.

It is reported that Yahoo hopes to allow users to share information on the activities of friends and lovers and so on to attract more Web site traffic. For example, like Facebook, Yahoo users can create a network of contacts when Flickr users to upload photos or comment on Yahoo News, Yahoo will issue a prompt to contact.

Yahoo is about to launch this platform will be extended to the Amazon, and Digg, and other non-Yahoo sites, Yahoo users can be informed of their friends in the other site activities and at the same time, these non-Yahoo site's traffic can also be raised.

Yahoo in accordance with the plan, the company will store the user data, such as contacts, hobbies, location information available to developers to develop applications. However, Yahoo official said Friday, the user can control the information available to developers and friends.

Yahoo stopped the development of Vista-specific version of instant messaging software

Friday, Yahoo said it has stopped a Vista-specific version of Yahoo Messenger development.

A spokesman for Yahoo Terrell Karlsten said in a statement: "Yahoo has made a strategic decision to no longer continue to release Vista-specific version of the external Yahoo Messenger, will focus on working to provide users with a unified Windows experience . This decision will help Yahoo improve efficiency, for Windows users with a consistent, all-purpose solutions, whether they are using XP or Vista. "

Yahoo announced in December last year, Vista-specific version of Yahoo Messenger public preview version, in March this year also launched a test version. Has been downloaded versions of these users can still continue to use, but Yahoo will not provide any upgrades.

Kars-teng said: "Looking ahead, we hope that Vista users to download full-featured Yahoo Messenger 9.0, the version compatible with XP and Vista."

Yahoo also said it will continue to carry out the experiment Windows Presentation Foundation.

Microsoft released developer portal DevLabs

Friday, Microsoft released a new developer portal DevLabs, would like to take this with the developers to share research and development of "early thinking" and planning to help Microsoft's product direction.
Microsoft Senior Vice President of Development Soma Saiga (S. Somasegar) wrote Bo DevLabs Web site describes some of the details. He said the site, the developers will be Microsoft's development tools of earlier versions, and Microsoft to provide feedback. Soma said the emphasis on Saiga, DevLabs not to be a new version of the existing product feedback, because the Web site listed in the project plan is not in shape, but the concept of early, some might plans to become the new features of existing products, some Is likely to open-source developer community, while others may have been abandoned.

DevLabs has been listed 4 plan, including the release Thursday of the Small Basic tool, the primary development tools for developers, from the BASIC programming language, based on. Net development, Pex and Popfly is the introduction of some of the time Tool, Popfly can be used to develop the game, Mashup (a kind of interactive Web applications) and web pages, Pex is the software testing tools. In addition, Microsoft has developed a few years, another software testing tools Chess is also out on the DevLabs.

AOL shut down three on-line services

AOL will close its AOL Pictures photo hosting services and Bluestring, as well as its online file storage services, Xdrive. Stored in the service of all of these things will be in December 31, 2008 after the disappearance. AOL Pictures photo service will be American Greetings (courtesy of the United States company), PhotoWorks services can choose to get a new home. However, users must be in the June 30, 2009 prior to the signing of this new initiative to restore the services of their own photos.
For each user, preferably by the end of this year, log on to your AOL service and their own photos or files to download it. All three services at the end of this year will provide a large number of downloads. Pay can also be archived DVD discs. Xdrive users can also search for their business to other online storage company.

PhotoWorks Web site users to select documents as the exclusive online destination is limited. PhotoWorks is a good photo Web site. However, the functions of this site is not the most modern. American Greetings is because it's part of the service is mainly used to create print gifts of photographs. However, the number of photos to the company Vice President Sally Babcock, we will be transferred from the 50 users to print photos, and provide other special Christmas gift.

Xdrive users pay in 2009 to the beginning of the refund. The billing service will be on November 5, 2008 termination.

With regard to the closure of the service, AOL said in a statement that, although these services over the years has always been our product portfolio is very important, however, AOL to the Web-based, advertising-focused company has been changed so that we give serious consideration to these products And continue to maintain that these hosted or subscription-based services do not meet our customers or our long-term interests of the business.

Mozilla launch Firefox for mobile phone beta

Mozilla recently released mobile phone market to the Alpha version of Firefox browser, trial versions of the browser will be the first in the Nokia N810 mobile phone applications, the public version will be launched in 2009. Mozilla said that the company is developing Windows mobile operating system, browser version, is expected to be completed by the end of this year. However, the media company on the Mozilla Firefox browser whether or not to support the BlackBerry not comment on the report. As the Apple software developers do not agree with the iPhone on the development of the browser, Firefox mobile phone version of the browser does not support the iPhone. In addition, Mozilla also said that it did not support the development of Google's Android mobile phone version of the browser.

Online RSS reader Bloglines return to normal

Well-known online RSS reader Bloglines Monday in the company's Web site said that as a result of which caused temporary interruption of service Bloglines, but is now back to normal.

It is reported that last week, Bloglines has been inexplicably closed for several weeks, even the co-founder Mark Fletcher (Mark Fletcher) are ready to join Google Reader. Moreover, Bloglines has not made any explanation, so when the repair is unknown.

But Monday, Bloglines website statement said: "We have to find the reasons for failure and have to repair the problem. At present, Bloglines has returned to normal, we have to bring you many apologized for the inconvenience. Thanks to the use of Bloglines."