Microsoft to buy Skype for $8.5 billion

Microsoft  Corp. Have Made A Biggest ever acquisition, In over Three Decades of Company's History To Buy Internet Telephone Service Provider And Famous Video Messenger Skype With an Impressive $8.5 Billion .

This was announced in a Press meet in San Francisco that was held by Skype Chief Executive Tony Bates and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer.

Microsoft Clevery Moved Its Steps in An Attempt To Take The Internet Market .This Deal Would Defineltly Bolster The Presence of Software Gaint In Highly Competitive Internet Market.
In An Attempt To Be Ahead Of Google and Cisco,Who Are Already Been Doing Their Own Software in Voice And Video Commuincation,Microsoft Opt For This Buyout.

The Largest deal Clearly Shows The Intention Of Microsoft To Compete With its Rivals Such As Google Inc, And Apple.It Shows The Courage Of Microsoft,How Far It Could Go And How Desperate Its In need Of Grabbing the Top Position In Internet Market.It Made a Jaw Dropping Deal Of $8.5 Billion ,Agaisnt Its Company's Estimated Worth of $48 Billion.Which Accounts To Nearly 18% .Microsoft's Last Big Deal was The $6 Billion Purchase Of An Advertising Firm aQuantive And A Deal With Facebook in 2007.
 Probably In one way or The Other the Winner Would Be Facebook.(Facebook outBid Skype In past)
With microsoft As a Common Part In Skype And Facebook ,It Can Access The Assets Of Skype As We All know About The Interest Of microsoft in Facebook .Its Special Interest May be To Supress the Undisturbed Reign of Google .
Now Facebook Can use Skype’s peer-to-peer network to offer video and voice services to the users of Facebook Chat.

Microsoft's interest in the money-losing, but popular service highlights a need to gain new customers for its Windows and Office software.
Skype which was already being the top in messengers with over 500 million users and 8.1 million paying users.Reports say skype users spend Over 520 million minutes taking to one Another.
Skype has 145 million users on average each month and has gained favor among small business users.
Skype Has Been Loosing Its Revenue In Recent Times .The Only source Of Income For Skype Is From Users Who Intend To Make Long Distant Calls.
It May USe Skype To support Its Devices Such as Gaming Console Xbox,Kinect And Windows 7( It Doesnt Have Skype Support).Microsoft Will Connect The Skype USers with Lync,Outlook,Xbox Live And Windows Messenger Could Take a New Look And Interface.


Read more Information on Yahoo News And Skype Blog.

World IPv6 Day has Facebook, Google & Yahoo Support

Probably Everyone of us Might be Aware Of the fact that Internet s running out of IP addresses as more and more people and devices hook up to the Web Every day.

Every Host and Router on the Internet has Got an Ip address,Which Encodes its Network number .The combination is Unique ,No two macines On internet Have the Same ip.All these ip Are 32 bits .Network numbers are managed By a non profit corporation called ICANN.

some Millions Of networks are now Being connected to the internet and This number is Increasing Every second .Internet is Getting Its huge shape these days.slowly Internet is Running Out of Address in simple Terms It Stops Expanding .There are only a few billion public IPv4 addresses. Many of those addresses have already been allocated

Atpresent We are Following ipv4 .It is the mostly used Internetworking Protocol which is standardised in 1996. But experts warn that this space could be exhausted in a matter of months.
There is been a Slow Transition between ipv4 and ipv6 is going on,has Already taken years and is by no Means close to being finished.we Also have an intermediate ipv5 which was an experimental Real time stream protocol That was Never been used.
With the use ipv6 there is huge hope Of Having An enormous internet space.
The next generation of Internet addresses, IPv6, has 4billion times more space than the current network.

What Is Ipv6 ??

Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) is a version of the Internet Protocol that is designed to succeed Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4).In ipv6 ,The ip Was Extenisvely modified To accomodate The huge Growth Of internet.The Format  and the Length of ip were changed.The next Generation ip has following Advantages over Traditional Ipv4
*Largest Address Space .ipv6 is 128 bits long where as ipv4 is 32 bits Address .which is A four fold increase in address space
The new address space supports 2128 (about 3.4×1038) addresses. This expansion provides considerable flexibility in allocating addresses and routing traffic. It also eliminates the primary need for network address translation (NAT), which gained widespread deployment as an effort to alleviate IPv4 address exhaustion.
*Multicast : these Additonal Functionality allows the Transmission of data packet to multiple Destinations with a single operation
*Allowance for Extension :it Is Designed To Allow the extension of protocol if req.by new Technologies or apps.
*support for More security

The Web gaints Facebook, Google and Yahoo are switching their websites to new Internet addresses in a 24-hour test to raise awareness of the critical shortage of capacity which is based on 64-bit addresses, and which will enable trillions more people and automated devices to successfully hook up to the Net using new IP addresses.
Its A big Step in the internet World .The three online giants, which together attract more than 1 billion visits a day, will transfer their sites to the next generation of internet addresses on June 8th, as experts warn that online capacity is running dangerously low.

According to The Internet Society, “The goal of the Test Drive Day is to motivate organizations across the industry - Internet service providers, hardware makers, operating system vendors and web companies - to prepare their services for IPv6 to ensure a successful transition as IPv4 addresses run out.”

On june 8th of this year Google, Facebook, Yahoo and Akamai will be switch on full IPv6 support on their main websites. It's being named as "World IPv6 Day," and it's the first full-scale test of the system, designed to see if the Net's infrastructure can successfully support it .On the Worl ipv6 day All our Internet Service Providers Manage The Configurations for the ipv6.
 The World IPv6 Day is being co-ordinated by the Internet Society, a non-profit group which educates people and companies about net issues. It has provided a webpage through which people can test their Ipv6 readiness.checkout the test.

European Commission to investigate Google

Google Had a Tough time this year after been Hardly effected by facebook,a popular social Networknig site overtaking its Regmie and  a Serious issue in Europe recently, with the StreetView row – in which the search giant was found to have been collecting unsecured Wi-Fi data – coming to a head in many major countries in the region and Even  Indian government issued a legal notice on search engine gaint Google for wrongly depicting the Indian map on its website.Its not new For Google To face this Alleglations .

And now Google is in Trouble Again as European Commission has launched an investigation into Google after other search engines complained that the firm had abused its dominant position.

 As we all know that

Google,The webgaint which changed the Face of The world in finding info  is the hugely dominant search engine in Europe as well as whole World, but allegations have been made that it has used this dominance to push other search engines down in its rankings. 

The complaints have not been made by competitors like Microsoft 's bing or Yahoo, but by French legal search engine ejustice.fr and price- comparison British site Foundem.

Google provides two types of results when users search its site for information.
The first are unpaid search results, often referred to as algorithmic results, and the second are third-party ads and sponsored links appearing at the top and right of the results page.

The Commission said it will investigate whether Google lowered the ranking of unpaid search results of competing services -- such as price-comparison sites, also known as vertical-search services -- and gave preferential placement to the results of its own such services.

Investigators will also look into allegations that Google lowered the "quality score" for sponsored links of competing vertical search services. The quality score is one of the factors determining the price advertisers must pay to Google.

The quality score also influences the likelihood of an ad being displayed by Google and its ranking. If two advertisers are using the same key words, the one with a lower quality score will have to pay a higher price to rank at the same place.
The Commission will also look at whether Google imposes exclusivity obligations on advertising partners -- preventing them from placing certain types of competing ads on their own websites and on computer and software vendors' sites, with the aim of shutting out competing search tools.

The probe will last as long as it takes to complete the investigation, the Commission said.

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