Skype upgrade – now with video.

NEW YORK (AP) – Skype is upgrading its popular Internet telephone service to add video calling and a toolbar for Microsoft Outlook to find and dial contacts with a click.

The long-promised “2.0” edition was launched Thursday by Skype, which was acquired last month by Internet auctioneer eBay Inc. (EBAY) for an eye-popping $2.6 billion.

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Yahoo, MSN to Form World’s Largest IM Community

I hope this means you’ll get full function between the two.. oh who am i kidding? I can’t get MSN to work with other MSNers. But still, I’m looking forward to it.

Yahoo, MSN to Form World’s Largest IM Community – Yahoo! News
MSN and Yahoo Messenger will be glued together, forming the world’s largest instant messaging community at some 275 million combined users, the services’ companies announced on Wednesday.