Earlier in the week Microsoft announced that it was releasing a new beta version of Skype for Macs and Windows that would allow users to video call their Facebook friends. This new feature expands the Facebook-to-Facebook video calling feature that was released back in July. It is now possible for Skype users to video call [...]

The EU has just announced, on Friday 7th October, that Microsoft can acquire Skype; this follows a similar decision by the US’ counterpart. Microsoft made an $8.5 billion offer for Skype earlier this year and following this ruling it is likely that the acquisition will be completed by the end of the year. View the [...]

ZDNet has reported (via Neowin) that Microsoft’s Bing Translator will be used to power a long rumoured translation feature on Facebook. The translation tool is apparently being rolled out now and it will be used to translate posts and comments on Facebook that are written in seemingly any of the 37 languages supported by the [...]

I have just spotted another, official place that Microsoft is using the new square logo for Windows Phone; for the Facebook app. If this isn’t a clear indication that the logo will become very Metro then I don’t know what is. This follows news from a couple of weeks ago where Microsoft started using the [...]

Yesterday, in case you didn’t know (no idea how you could have missed it :P) Facebook and Skype announced a partnership that will allow Facebook friends to video call each other from within the browser. This is very interesting news and something I think will be very interesting/useful for Microsoft as it is in the [...]

I think this is a pretty good demonstration of how well Microsoft’s communication services can work together and how well they integrate with Facebook.

Today Microsoft released an update to Bing which allows users to see what their friends have liked across the internet and show mean that people can find better, more reliable information now when searching using Bing. Its only available to people in the US, or those who have their location set to the UK so [...]

I know Bing has been providing Facebook’s web results when searching on the social networking site for some time but I hadn’t noticed the Bing icon and logo before. When I did a search today I saw it for the first time, does anyone know how long its been there or have I just been [...]

Across the web today I have seen several adverts for the new Xbox 360 including an as on Facebook. The ads all feature a image of the new, imposing design of the Xbox often with the text “Sleek new design. Whisper quiet. 250GB hard drive and built in Wi-Fi. And it’s ready for Kinect. Here [...]

Bing has a new beta page for searches, Bing Social. This pulls information from Twitter and Facebook with options to select the time frame and the source, whether it is public updates or Shared Links. As with most things to do with Facebook at the moment there might be fears about people’s information being shared [...]