Skype's video messaging service is finally out of beta and has now launched on Windows, Mac, iOS, BlackBerry and Android. Surprisingly the service isn't available on Windows Phone yet but we're expecting Skype will be baked into Windows Phone in an upcoming update. The 20 video messages limit that existed on the beta has been removed and users can now send unlimited video messages to their Skype contacts. However Windows Phone users can receive these video messages but cannot send them.

Google raised quite a few eyebrows when it announced that it'll be shutting down Google Reader in March as a part of its spring cleaning measures. The RSS reader didn't have enough users, according to the company, for it to care about developing and maintaining it. Since then several alternatives have cropped up to grab Google Reader's audience who'll soon have nowhere to go. Amongst them are Feedly, Digg Reader and Reeder.

Birst recently lured SAP business objects customers and also announced support for NetSuite, providing companies on that platform with advanced analytics and BI tools for the data that is in NetSuite, as well as the opportunity to combine this source of data with other information sources across their organisations. So what better time could we get to catch up with Brad Peters, CEO of Birst to gather his views on where is BI and big data heading.

One of the biggest problems that enterprises face these days is of security threats from within. Employees walking away with proprietary works or sending off top secret emails to rivals, and some such “leaks”.

Photographers, professional and amateur, take note. Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) has launched the Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5 for Mac OS and Windows. The new software adds critical photo editing capabilities and creates, what Adobe describes as “ground breaking” workflows.

Yahoo's shopping spree hasn't finished after Tumblr acquisition. The company has quickly finished acquiring two more companies - GhostBird Software and Rondee. The former creates photography apps on iOS while the latter is a free conference calling service.

Chief Information Officers (CIOs) and other key Information Technology (IT) professionals involved with the setting up and management of service provider networks can now exchange notes with each other as part of a new online community called ‘Service Provider IT Report’ set up by UBM Tech and its marketing wing, UBM DeusM.

In what may be a second attempt at doing a Twitter, Facebook has introduced hashtags on the company's most popular social network. The move is another step towards encouraging publicly visible posts on Facebook. But hashtags are only one of the first few features that Facebook is planning to bring. We expect more real-time functionality that might keep users from Twitter, or at least that's what Facebook is hinting at.

Amazon has finally launched its Kindle tablets and e-readers in India. After the launch of it's marketplace in the country, the company is now making an obvious, yet big, move by introducing the Kindle Fire HD, Kindle Paperwhite and the Kindle keyboard in the country. Although the latter had been launched earlier as well, it had met with an extremely low inventory and Amazon is now directly selling it on their own marketplace apart from offline retailers.

Salesforce continues its acquisition spree. Earlier this year the company has acquired clipboard to augment its marketing capabilities. Furthering the cause Salesforce has acquired two more companies, ExactTarget and EdgeSpring last week. One is into marketing and the other into analytics.