Facebook unveils deal with Skype as battle with Google hots up

Facebook announced a deal with Skype that will add live video chat to the social-networking site - marking the latest step-up in the battle against Google.
Founder of the social networking site, Mark Zuckerberg said it was an 'awesome' development for Skype as his company takes on the might of the internet search engine.
Google recently launched its Google+ service which also has a feature that allows video calls and the two companies are now locked in a head-to-head technological race.

'Something awesome': Mark Zuckerberg said that it's video chat service with
Skype will lead the way with social networking

Until now Facebook users have been limited to instant text chat and the move to incorporate Skype takes their game to the next level.

Oh sorry, Facebook CEO is surely a thief: Winklevoss Twins

California, Jun 27: It was just a silence before the blast! The Winklevoss Twins, who decided not to move the US Supreme Court against Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, have filed a fresh lawsuit against Zuckerberg.

In the fresh petition filed in the US District Court of Massachusetts, the identical twins, Cameron Winklevoss and Tyler Winklevoss, and their Harvard classmate Divya Narendra claimed that Zuckerberg hid critical information from them during the settlement in 2008.

Meanwhile, Facebook rejected the fresh claims saying that these are just "baseless allegations".

Facebook hires Sony PlayStation hacker Geohot

California, Jun 28: Is Facebook planning for cyber attacks? The world's largest social networking website, Facebook has hired the notorious Sony PlayStation hacker George Hotz, who is widely known as Geohot.

Various technology reported Facebook's hiring of George Hotz, who is popular for his hacking of the Sony PlayStation 3 console and Apple iPhone jailbreak. Later Facebook confirmed the news and said that George Hotz was working with them.

Bloggers added that Sony hired George Hotz to create an official Facebook app for the iPad. Earlier, we reported Facebook is planning to launch an exclusive iPad app. With Hotz in kit, Facebook can protect its products from future cyber attacks.

George Hotz rised to stardom with his Sony PlayStation 3 hack. In Jan, 2010, he announced that he had successfully hacked the PlayStation 3 OS by enabling himself read and write access to the machine's system memory and having hypervisor level access to the machine's processor.

Spotify, Facebook in talks on music service

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has teased the public about the launch of something "awesome." Is it a new music service?

Spotify may have found an American friend in Facebook.
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg yesterday set off a wave of speculation by telling reporters that the social network has plans to "launch something awesome" next week.
Some have speculated whether Zuckerberg might roll out the kind of music service GigaOm outlined in a story on June 19. The blog reported that Facebook was working on some kind of music feature that incorporated multiple music services, including Spotify, Europe's top streaming-music service.
Facebook and Spotify have indeed held discussions recently about integrating the music service into Facebook in a significant way once Spotify launches in the United States, multiple sources in the music industry told CNET. One source said that it appears the parties have reached an agreement but that could not be confirmed.