Issuing a notably forceful defense of its privacy policies, Skype - the voice over IP telephony service which was acquired by Microsoft in May 2011 – rebuffed the media reports in which it was alleged that the service has made some changes to its architecture so as to allow law-enforcement agencies to monitor calls.

In response to recent reports that Skype changed its architecture to facilitate companies in snooping on users, the Internet-based voice and video calling service said that the changes which it had brought in its architecture were chiefly aimed at making the monitoring of calls and messages easier for law enforcement.

BSkyB has released the legal fight against registration of the trademark Skype claiming it to be akin to its own brand, Sky.

The firm is half owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, BSkyB which currently seeks to sought the name Skype, in the Europe, India, Norway and Brazil.

Skype claims of receiving a clearance that has come from all regulators other than EU.

The gung ho is on its way to finalize that who possess the word sky which has turned the focal point of a argument flanked by satellite broadcaster BSkyB and Skype, the internet phone service arranging for a flotation in the United States.

BSkyB has confronted Skype's make an effort to record its name as a brand name in Europe amidst the assertion that it is too near to its own Sky brand.

Skype wants to go public. The company is the leader of the Internet phone service.

The company is based in Luxembourg and on Monday it had registered up to an amount of one hundred million dollar worth American depository shares to the Securities and Exchange Commission, in a filing.

Rdio, the latest new music streaming service, is being offered to every citizens of US and Canada.

The earlier version has been offered by an invitation via the beta version, and service is being offered via both the Windows-based PCs and Mac computers, as stated by the developers Janus Friis and Niklas Zennström, who are also the co-founders of Skype and Kaazaa.

Skype has proposed the launch of an advanced version of the iPhone and the iPod Touch app.

It is stated that the latest version of the app and permits Skype users to offer calls for in the same old manner. The best part of this inclusion comes in the form of multitasking ability. Via Skype running at the back one can run several other tasks on the same go. In addition to this the app comes with a higher resolution of the new Retina Display.